 "I had pain shooting down my left leg and tingling in my leg. I could only walk on a hard surface for 5 minutes- then I had to stop and sit down. I had trouble sleeping on my left side. The pain was very bad. I have had pain off and on for about 10 years. Previous treatment included chiropractors. This last episode was the worst. It started after a golf outing about three months ago. Then I went on a cruise with my wife and I couldn't walk but a few minutes before I had to sit down because of the pain. She told me I had to go see a surgeon when we got back. I was very skeptical of the spinal decompression treatment before I did it. I was very impressed after the first treatment. Last week I golfed for the first time in three months and I didn't have any pain after 18 holes of golf. I would highly recommend this treatment". Donald Whetstine, Grayson
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| "I was having lower back pain radiating to my legs and feet. I had the pain for 4 or 5 months. My MRI scan showed a herniated disc at L4-5. Initially the pain was a 10 out of 10, but then it dropped to a 6 or 7 out of 10 and it stayed right there. I could be up and walking for an hour or hour and a half. Then my feet would just start killing me. I had an epidural injection but it only helped a little bit. After treatment here I'm 100% better. I have 0 pain in my feet and legs and today after work my back pain is less than a 1 out of 10. I do a lot of lifting at work. I pretty much can do whatever I want now like cutting the grass, walk around the neighborhood. I am going back to the golf course this Saturday. I was in such pain that I was willing to try anything and it definitely has cured my problem. I definitely would recommend this treatment to others". Douglas Doty, Conyers |
| "I had my back pain for 6 or 7 months. I went to an orthopedic surgeon and he sent me to a physical therapist. I did physical therapy exercises for about 6 months but there didn't seem to be much improvement. Then the orthopedist suggested I come here. I asked him about decompression treatment and he recommended you (Dr. Castanet). I had low back pain that did not go down the legs. The pain was not severe. It was aggravating but not debilitating. I couldn't bend over as well and I did have limited movement. There seems to be quite a bit of improvement now. I can bend over and squat down and do the work I have to do. I'd say I'm probably 95% better. I have recommended the treatment to other people. I didn't expect as much improvement as I really did get. I thought it was worth a try and it paid off." Charles Walker, Atlanta |
 "I found out I had two herniated discs and a third disc bulge. My MRI scan showed one was moderately large on the left at L2-3. The other was a left herniation at L5-S1, pinching my nerve and a bulge at L4-5. It was so painful I had to stop working, doing heavy construction work. The pain was very bad. I tried to go back to work twice but couldn't. Medication didn't help much and I didn't want to do an epidural injection. My back pain before treatment was a 10 out of 10. My pain is now considerably better. My pain is now a 0, to a 1 or 2 sometimes. I can sit in a chair as long as I want. I can walk. I don't have the excruciating pain that I used to have. I don't have the right buttock pain anymore. I used to have the pain going down both legs. I was skeptical of the treatment because I didn't know what it consisted of. I would definitely recommend the treatment to other people". Claudiu Mititean, Duluth |
| "My MRI scan showed I had an extruded herniated disc at L4-5 compressing the nerve root. My nurse friend saw it on the MRI and was surprised how bad it looked. Just before I came into Backstrong for treatment, the pain was so intense I hadn't slept in two nights. After the third treatment here I was able to sleep through the night. My low back went down my left leg to my toes and the pain was constant. Before treatment the pain was more than 10 out of 10. Now it's about a 2 out of 10. The pain left gradually. I don't know if I'll ever get 100% better but this is quite a difference from when I came here. It is so much better. I have done 12 treatments but I can't finish the treatment here because I am moving away. Dr. Castanet recommends I finish the treatment wherever I move. I would definitely recommend the treatment to others." Brenda Ryan, Stone Mountain |
 "I had very debilitating back pain making it almost impossible to get in and out of a chair or walk or do normal activities around the house- it was horrible. It got really, really bad during the last 4 or 5 years but I've had it a good 30 years. I've had chiropractic. I've seen many orthopedist surgeons who wanted to do surgery which I would not subject myself to. I did have some shots in the spinal area- three different series- until my legs went numb and I couldn't get off the table and I thought I was going be crippled by that. So I never want back to that again. This decompression treatment has been absolutely awesome. The MRI showed 4 herniated discs. The treatment's been absolutely, positively the best relief I've ever gotten. It's practically all gone. No more pain- once in a while I get a little catch but nothing that's going to keep me from doing what I want to do. It's wonderful. It's nice to have your life back after all that time. I was not skeptical of the treatment because I knew it was the last option left to me. It was either being crippled, and not being able to do what I wanted to, in the kind of pain I was in or surgery, which I was not going to do. My back reacted immediately. I had almost immediate relief from it. It was wonderful. There was no question. After the first treatment I knew it was working. Before treatment I had extreme pain down my legs. It was part of the reason I couldn't walk- it was horrible. I certainly would recommend the treatment to others. It's so wonderful to be able to get relief from something like this without surgery and invasive procedures. Before treatment the pain was a 15 out of 10. After treatment I'm down to a 1-2 once in a while- most of the time it's a zero. After the first treatment I knew it was working. Before treatment I had extreme pain down my legs. It was part of the reason I couldn't walk- it was horrible. I certainly would recommend the treatment to others. It's so wonderful to be able to get relief from something like this without surgery and invasive procedures. Before treatment the pain was a 15 out of 10. After treatment I'm down to a 1-2 once in a while- most of the time it's a zero. It's wonderful. It's impossible to describe it. It really is". Irene Frontiera, age 72, Jackson, GA. |
| "I was having low back pain and pain in both hips and legs. Dr. Castanet said I had a low back problem but he also diagnosed a separate hip problem that he saw on the x-rays, for which I needed to see an orthopedist. He said he could help me with my back pain and the part of my leg pain that was coming from my back but I needed to see the orthopedist for my hip joint problem. I had been to a neurosurgeon who prescribed medications but he didn't say anything about my hip problem. My MRI showed a herniated disc and degenerated disc at L5-S1. After treatment I feel a whole turnaround. My back is 80 to 90 to 100% better. I think the treatment experience has been good and I would recommend it to others". Ashley Scott, Duluth |
 "I was having extreme lower back pain. It was a greater severity than I had ever had before. It went down the left leg and the pain was a 9.5 out of 10. I was using crutches. I was so desperate for help I wasn't skeptical. Before treatment I couldn't even sleep. I was sleeping humped over an ottoman chair just to try to take pressure off my lower back. I couldn't even sleep in my bed. I couldn't even walk. I was crawling around my house. I got immediate relief on the spinal decompression table while I was being decompressed. As soon as the decompression started, while I was on the table, there was no pain in my lower back. Since the treatment finished a year ago I've been great. I've been careful to use good body mechanics. I'm a musician so I lift amplifiers and speakers. I lift with my legs and not my back but it's been a year now since I had the treatment and my back is doing great. I believe in the treatment so much that I just returned today for the first time to do a booster. I want to be proactive and prevent going back to that herniation. I'm trying to be proactive instead of reactive. I can do anything now. I can lift, push, jump, lifecycle. I'm very happy". Mark Jacobsen, age 47, Buford, GA |
| "I was referred to Dr. Castanet by my primary physician, so I wasn't skeptical. He sent another patient to Dr. Castanet and she did well. My primary physician definitely thought it would help me and it has. I had back surgery 7 months ago to remove a disc fragment. The surgery helped for a while. Then it continued to get worse. After surgery I had Lortab medication, an epidural and facet and hip injections. They didn't help. I tried a spinal cord stimulator but didn't like it- the feeling is very unpleasant. After 7 treatments of spinal decompression so far, I feel much better than I did to begin with. I feel about 50-60% better so far. I can walk better and sit longer. My balance is better and my pain is not nearly as bad as it was. My pain was 9 or 10 out of 10 in the right buttock. Now it's a 4 or 5 out of 10. My right leg was a 6 out of ten and involved the whole leg. Now it's a 5 out of 10 in only some parts of the leg, not the whole leg. And I am taking less medication now. I would recommend the treatment to others with spine pain". Elsie Hill, Conyers |
 "I was having back problems and deteriorated discs. On a scale of 1 to 10, my pain was a 10-12 out of 10. I've had that pain for a long time- 32 years. I've had tens units. I've had injections. I've had all kinds of medications for it. I've been to pain clinics. I felt relief after the first week of treatment. Now I have no pain in my back whatsoever. I had two herniated discs. I have fibromyalgia pain but the leg pain from my back is gone. I am able to stand and wash dishes now. We helped my daughter clean out her garage this past weekend. We spent four days doing that and before I would not have been able to withstand anything like that. I couldn't wash dishes. I couldn't vacuum the rug. Our bedroom is upstairs and I'm able to walk up the stairs a couple of times a day now. Alot of nights I didn't go upstairs and go to bed- I slept on the couch. Today I feel 100% better. I am always recommending the treatment to others". Jimmie Julian, age 63, Decatur, GA |
| "I have had low back pain with a sciatic component on and off for 4 or 5 years, actually up to a decade if you count the beginning. I walk a lot at work and it inhibited my ability to walk around and up and down stairs at home so it had a significant impact on my lifestyle. I have improved about 95% plus with decompression treatment. I have had steroid injections in the past and that would resolve the pain for a short period of time and then it would come back. But after the decompression treatment I feel 95 plus % improvement. I researched decompression on the internet and my expectations were high that it would help. I have recommended the treatment to over a dozen people at this point. I worked at a holistic clinic with a physical medicine doctor before and we worked with back pain patients but I hadn't heard much about decompression treatment. I think this decompression treatment should have a prominent role in the treatment of back and neck pain patients". Dr. Alawode Oladele, M.D., Tucker |
| "I have had recurring back pain off and on for two to three years. I could go months without pain and then have an incident of pain that was 9 or 10 out of 10. Then it would get better over two or three weeks. This recent episode happened when I was lifting luggage and twisted the wrong way. It was a very painful 9 or 10 initially and I couldn't stand up straight. It hurt to walk. It hurt to sit. My only relief came from lying down. I was a little skeptical of decompression treatment at first. But I was really willing and able to try something, anything since past treatments haven't really proved helpful in the long term. The staff here has been really great and professional and I'm optimistic that it's going to be helpful going forward. Right now I'm really pain-free. At the time I was going through the treatments I was still in some pain. It wasn't clear at all times whether the pain was part of the healing process or if it was being caused by the treatments but eventually the pain went away and the treatments continued without any pain so I took that as a good sign that I was on the right path. I was not 100% convinced after the first couple of treatments but I would say that about halfway through the treatments that the pain was starting to go away altogether and I thought I had turned a corner at that point. Time will tell- I'm optimistic and I'm currently pain-free. I'm looking forward to getting back to my regular activities and testing it out. Golf is a passion of mine and I'm not willing to give it up. Before the treatment was finished I resumed play and I haven't had any problems so far". J. Broyles, Decatur |
