We think of back problems as maladies that come along with old age. But pain doesn’t discriminate; it strikes old and young alike. That was definitely Jaselyn Lee’s experience. Only in her early 20s, Jaselyn was already afflicted with intense back pain that caused numbness through her entire left leg.
“It was almost to the point where I feel like I can’t breathe because I’m in so much pain,” Jaselyn remembers. She could try to get up and walk, but walking hurt, too. The pain kept her from taking part in fellowship activities, and playing an active role in her job as a preschool teacher. “I would just kind of have to be on the sidelines watching and kind of supervising, not actually engaging with them,” Jaselyn recalls.
A friend who works for the Spine Institute Northwest advised Jaselyn to come in for a consultation with Dr. Kamson. Jaselyn had already tried numerous therapies for dealing with her pain, and nothing helped. In the end, she had a minimally invasive lumbar discectomy.
Within a month, Jaselyn was “out and about,” walking and driving. Before long, she was back at work, too, where now “I can pick up my students.” It’s been a year since her minimally invasive spine surgery, and Jaselyn, now 23, can enjoy the kind of active life that most people in their 20s would take for granted.
Hear what Jaselyn has to say about her experience with the Spine Institute Northwest: