The Non-Invasive Low-Back Pain Solution

Mustafa A. Hammad. The Non-Invasive Low-Back Pain Solution. Case Presentation: It’s all in the pictures. Manufacturer’s publication (Excite Medical, Tampa, Florida, USA), labeled “2019 Case Study DRX9000®.” No journal publication, DOI, or PubMed record of this case was found.

The case presentation survives only in copies published by Excite Medical, the manufacturer of the DRX9000: the page “2019 Case Study DRX9000®” on the company’s website and page 14 (“2019 CASE PRESENTATION”) of its 2020 A4 product brochure. The original printed page, headed “THE NON-INVASIVE LOW-BACK PAIN SOLUTION”, is known only from a small image on the manufacturer’s research page, which does not say where it first appeared. The text below follows these copies, checked against that image; the figures are taken from the brochure.

Author, as printed in the note at the end of the case: Mustafa A. Hammad, MD, DO, DABIPP, FIPP, FACP, CPI, FAAN, owner of The NeuroMedical Institute.

On the manufacturer’s website, the case is followed by a separate company promotional section, “The Case for DRX9000®” (a product description, company information, a lease offer, and contact details). It is not part of the case presentation and is not reproduced here.

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Reproduced as published. Translations into Russian and Ukrainian are available on this site.

It’s all in the pictures

A 28-YEAR-OLD BANK TELLER presented with a one-year history of lower-back pain radiating down his left lower extremity, associated with numbness and tingling sensation down the left leg in the L4 and L5 dermatomal distribution. The symptoms were interfering with the patient’s work and sleep. Prior to his initial visit with Dr. Mustafa Hammad, he underwent six weeks of physical therapy and was treated with NSAIDs, opioids and Lyrica without any relief. A pre-treatment MRI (figure 1) revealed moderate disc herniation at L4-5 level touching the L4 and L5 nerve roots on the left The patient underwent 20 treatment sessions on the DRX9000 over a six-week period. A follow up MRI, one month after the last treatment (figure 2) reflected almost total resolution of the herniated L4-5 disc, with improvement in disc morphology, disc height, and neural canal AP diameter at the L4/5 level. Clinically the patient had total resolution of his symptoms. After a one-year follow-up with the patient, he was still symptom free and a repeat MRI still showed no changes from the previous post-treatment MRI.

Mustafa A. Hammad, MD, DO, DABIPP, FIPP, FACP, CPI, FAAN, owner of The NeuroMedical Institute, is boardcertified in neurology, pain medicine and interventional pain management using the DRX900. He can be reached via inewromed.com.

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