Patient Stories

Learn how having back surgery for a herniated disc helped a middle-aged high school athletic director and coach get back to work without back pain.

David Bruner wasn’t ready to give up his love for sheep showing. After getting injections for a pinched nerve in his spine from Dr. Osborne, he is now pain-free.

After years of back pain and an increasing amount of addictive pain medication, patient turns to OrthoIndy physiatry to relieve back pain and quit addictive pain medication.

After a spinal fusion for her scoliosis, patient returns to racing cars and living a competitive lifestyle.

Frank Johnson had surgery when he was in middle school. Looking back he realizes how it impacted his life and how he was able to live a normal life after.

After two rotator cuff tears, patient undergoes shoulder surgery in order to return to her passion of painting.

After tearing her ACL and getting surgery, Shanna returns to soccer and tears her ACL and meniscus only to get surgery again. But now she’s back in the game.

After undergoing knee surgery, Monte returned to his active lifestyle only to have shoulder pain. After shoulder treatment, he has returned to martial arts.

Kathy decided that if there was a solution to improve her pain, she was ready to do it. Biking and hiking became painful so she turned to OrthoIndy again.

Jo was going on a simple walk in the park when she tripped and fell, traumatically breaking her leg. After searching for the right doctor she found herself at OrthoIndy.

Emilee had an anomaly in the base of her spine that caused the bottom of her lumbar spine to move and grind against the sacrum bone of the pelvis.

When Christine McCollum came to OrthoIndy for shoulder pain, she had no idea she would end up needing a to see spine specialist that would recommend back surgery.