Novant Health, Healthy Headlines:
“Unbearable neck pain and no relief. Then he found the right doctor.”
“It started in Dean Spicer’s legs — a shooting, throbbing pain that jolted him awake and never let up. Then, little by little, it moved into his neck.
"It hurt so much it was all I could do to straighten my head and hold it up — I didn’t even realize I was that way," the 64-year-old ABC liquor store clerk said. "It was just so painful to do the normal things in life — I hurt 24/7."
Dr. Chase Bennett
For about 11 years, Spicer crisscrossed the Triad of North Carolina in search of relief. He had various kinds of back injections and even a procedure to burn nerves one doctor suspected of causing the pain. Nothing helped. Several health care providers told him flatly there was nothing they could do. Finally, someone urged him to call spine surgeon Dr. Chase Bennett of Novant Health Brain & Spine Surgery —Kimel Park in Winston-Salem.”
Novant Health, Healthy Headlines:
“I feel like Superman’ after back surgery.”
“John Hepler couldn’t ignore his back pain any longer. After years of suffering, the 47-year-old became depressed, hunchbacked and a liability at work.
The worst part: He no longer felt like the guy that his family needed him to be.
About 80 percent of adults experience low back pain at some point in their lives. And it’s the most common cause for job-related disability and a leading cause for missed days at work.
Chase Bennett, MD
Hope was restored when Dr. Chase Bennett, a spine surgeon at Novant Health Brain & Spine Surgery, recommended a new minimally invasive procedure called a lateral lumbar interbody fusion (XLIF).
For Hepler, it was a decision that changed his life.”
Novant Health, Healthy Headlines PODCAST:
“Minimally invasive back surgery offers fast relief and recovery.”
“The thought of spine surgery can sound pretty scary. In this episode, Dr. Chase Bennett, a spine surgeon at Novant Health Brain & Spine Surgery, shares how he is addressing low back pain with a new procedure known as lateral lumbar interbody fusion. Stick around to hear him explain why this approach is a total game-changer when it comes to minimally invasive surgery.”
NUVASIVE FEATURED CASE:
“Complex adult deformity with Vuepoint 2, Reline, Bendini OCT, and Coroent Small Interlock”
In our Featured Case series, NuVasive highlights outcome driven innovation, and the combination of access, interbody implants, biologics, fixation and enabling technologies to create a comprehensive system to address patient pathologies.
In this case, Dr. Chase Bennett, Spine Surgeon, Novant Health Brain and Spine Surgery—Kimel Park, performs a multi-staged thoracic pedicle subtraction osteotomy and spinal fusion using Coroent Small Interlock, Vuepoint 2, Reline, Bendini OCT and NuVasive Power to correct hyper kyphosis and restore lordosis in a patient suffering from ankylosing spondylitis.
“Cervicothoracic reconstruction is not for everybody—and the reason you’d need it is not very common, but it can offer a great deal of pain relief and improvement in quality of life for the right person.”
– Dr. Chase Bennett