SAN DIEGO, Calif. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – Thirty million people in the U.S. suffer from chronic low back pain – it’s pain that continues for more than six months.
For many, the pain lasts years. When you’ve tried medication, steroid injections, and chiropractors, and nothing relieves your pain, often you’re left suffering and out of options. Now, there’s a new procedure that burns away back pain.
Andrea Beagle can push, pull, and twirl her grandkids Alice, Waylon, and Wesley now — but that wasn’t always the case.
“At my worst, I was combat crawling through my house without the use of my legs for two days,” she said.
Andrea tried it all, but nothing helped, until she found an Interventional Pain Specialist at Scripps Clinic Medical Group in San Diego, Kevin “Buzz” Barrette, MD.
She was suffering from vertebrogenic back pain. A new procedure called basivertebral nerve ablation, or BVN, shuts …