Spine

Minimally invasive spine surgery allows patients with spinal injuries, spinal stenosis, scoliosis, and other spine conditions to find relief more easily.

Common Myths About Back Pain Myth #1: It’s Degenerative Disc Disease So one of the most common things that patients...

The Health Factory Podcast: Dr. John M. Lavelle, D.O. talks the importance of functional fitness! Josh:
Hey guys. Welcome back to the Health Factory Podcast. This is Josh, and I’m here with Dusty Holden and Dr. John Lavelle.
Dusty Holden:
Good morning.
Dr. Lavelle:
Glad to be here.
Dusty Holden:
Yeah, it’s good to be back.
Josh:
Last time we talked about injury and then shockingly, that obviously gets a lot of feedback. There’s a lot of folks who have been in pain, a lot of folks who’ve been injured in the past, and then maybe that was what sparked them to either change their training or develop something different, or maybe that’s what turned them off in the first place? That’s what’s kind of led us to talking to Dr. Lavelle today. Real quick, can you explain to us your background in medicine? So, what kind of doctor are you? What do I need to know about what you do?

So typically patients that undergo injections are ones that have been dealing with back or leg pain, neck or arm pain for at least six to eight weeks.

Dr. Colin Booth, MD,spine medicine physician at Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance, explains what can be done for young adults with disc herniation.

Dr. John Lavelle, a spine medicine physician at Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance,  explains the options available for...