Jim Peters (a pseudonym) spends five days a week behind a desk, staring at a computer sometimes up to 10 hours a day. He looks forward to his 25-mile bike rides on the weekends to decompress from his brutal work schedule.
As he was riding one day, he experienced severe pain in his tailbone. Giving up his favorite activity was not an option. So he called his doctor, integrative physician Alexander Kulick.
Dr. Kulick asked Peters to give him 15 minutes for a procedure called hydrodissection, and the rest is history. Three years later, Peters is still completely pain free.
Hydrodissection frees trapped nerves using ultrasound guidance and a sophisticated injection technique to spread fluid around the nerve to free up the scar tissue that compresses nerves. Patients usually feel relief within a day.
It is a relatively new and complex technique that can save some patients from major surgery. Dr. Kulick is part of a selective group of doctors who perform this procedure.
