what physicians are saying
"mild may be the most important advancement in Pain Management for treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis since the Epidural Steroid Injection.”
~Frank Adipietro, MD
"I am so excited to have an alternative
option to offer my patients before
traditional back surgery. For such a long
time the only treatment options for
spinal stenosis have been epidural steroid
injections or open spine surgery. Now I have an alternative minimally invasive
option for my patients.”
~Lora L. Brown, MD
"The mild procedure combines safety
and efficacy in an efficient package that
can be applied to a wide spectrum of
patients.”
~Bohdan W. Chopko, PHD, MD
"As physicians, our main goal is to
reduce the risks to our patients while
maximizing their quality of life. In
the properly selected patient we can
achieve both of these goals, while
being cost effective and socially
responsible. We must continue to
advance treatment of the spine,
and this can be achieved with ultraminimally
invasive treatments such as
the mild procedure.”
~Timothy Deer, MD
"The mild procedure is proving to be a tremendous breakthrough in the treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis. While most of the other surgical specialties have advanced to treat diseases in much less invasive ways (laparoscopy, endoscopy, and robotics), spinal surgery has gotten more complex. Less may be more in patients with central canal lumbar spinal stenosis and, certainly, our patients will appreciate the safe and minimally-invasive approach to treating a disease that is unfortunately so common as we get older .”
~Brian Durkin, DO
"The mild procedure may signal the end of pain from this type of lumbar stenosis. I'm impressed with how much younger my patients appear after mild— relief from pain and improved function can do that!”
~Vance Z. Johnson, MD
"The improvement in my patients has been dramatic and swift, with life changing enhanced functionality. This has proven to be a truly ultra-minimally invasive treatment that is highly effective."
~James M. Kelly, MD
"The mild procedure has added immeasurably to my tools of the trade for patients with spinal stenosis due to ligamentum flavum hypertrophy. This procedure is very successful in the hands of the right proceduralist, one who is comfortable with fluoroscopic imaging of the lumbar spine and very helpful for the right patient, one whose primary cause for spinal stenosis and pain is hypertrophy of the ligamentum."
~Elliot Krames, MD
"Vertos Medical is setting a new standard by aggressively pursuing outcomes and safety data, which thus far, are looking strong. This says a lot about their confidence in mild and gives me that much more confidence to offer it to my patients."
~Benjamin Platt, MD
"After treating patients with spinal
stenosis for years, and having few options for them other than an open decompressive laminectomy, I now have a new minimally invasive treatment that allows patients with neurogenic
claudication the ability to improve their
quality of life without the need for hospitalization, general anesthesia and
perioperative pain. The recovery from
the procedure is immediate. The patients
notice the ability to ambulate further
within 48 hours.”
~Louis J. Raso, MD, PA
"I cannot emphasize how impressed I am with the mild procedure. It has given me, as well as my patients, an amazingly safe and effective alternative for the treatment of back pain associated with lumbar spinal stenosis. I am so confident with this procedure that I performed it on my mother-in-law, who has done phenomenal. A quick, effective, safe procedure with minimal recovery... need I say more!?”
~William Richardson, MD
"My patients that have undergone the mild procedure have noticed dramatic improvements in both pain and function. The ultra-minimally invasive nature of the procedure makes it an ideal therapeutic intervention prior to open spine surgery."
~Charles Stevens, MD
"The mild procedure opens a new door for the treatment of patients of intractable neurogenic claudication, offering an elegant and relatively non invasive treatment option. In my opinion, if all the conservative approaches failed, the mild intervention should precede any attempts for open decompressive surgery. The initial results with the mild procedure are very impressive."
~Julien Vaisman, MD
"We saw the trend start with heart procedures 20 years ago, and that is, a smaller hole is better. Curative heart surgery doesn't always require an open chest cavity. mild gives my patients with debilitating LSS an alternative to open back surgery and it's proven complications, with equal or better results in my hands and few, if any complications."
~Mike Verdolin, MD
"Este procedimiento a venido a revolucionar la manera en que la cirujia de columna minimamente invasiva debe ser utilizada, comparada con cirujia abierta!"
~Carlos Omar Viesca, MD
“All of my patients who have undergone
the mild have appreciated the ease
of the procedure, the brevity of the
recovery, and the rapidity of improved
function. As an example, one of my
patients, age 88, expressed profound
delight upon finally being able to enjoy
18 holes of golf less than 3 days after the
procedure.”
~Wade Wong, DO, FACR
