At first glance, the attached movie shows nothing particularly spectacular, a man skiing down a slope. The fact that the skier quoted “the aspects of life as fairly disappointing” due to unbearable, increasing back- and leg-pain a little over two years ago, makes the filmlet a personal success story. The now 48 year old Mark Mintzer from California has gone through a lot of suffering due to a chronic disc disease, before he found a solution in ARTIFICIAL DISC REPLACEMENT. Drs. Willem Zeegers has performed a double level disc replacement surgery in September of 2002.
16.05.2008. Dr. Hoogland´s newest paper titled "Endoscopic Transforaminal Discectomy for Recurrent Lumbar Disc Herniation" has been published by the most important professional journal concerning spine disease, the "SPINE JOURNAL".
17.03.2005. Strongman and strongactor Dieter Seidenkranz has undergone an Endoscopic Spine surgery after an injury of his spine and longlasting back-pain.
22.02.2005. Spine-Specialists met in Munich to discuss and introduce the newest trends and methods / Spinal diseases increase world-wide / lack of exercise viewed as chief cause / Specialisation becomes increasingly important / The future of spine-surgery belongs to minimal-invasive methods /
22.02.2005. Dutch cabaret artist, Peter de Jong, more familiar to his audience as Maxi - the "larger" part of favoured duo Mini & Maxi - was operated on by Dr. Hoogland on two herniated levels of the cervical spine.
22.02.2005. Spine-Specialists met in Munich to discuss and introduce the newest trends and methods / Spinal diseases increase world-wide / lack of exercise viewed as chief cause / Specialisation becomes increasingly important / The future of spine-surgery belongs to minimal-invasive methods /
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