“It’s so refreshing to be at Nura where I am believed and always treated with respect and compassion. It’s worth the two-hour drive.”
REAL PEOPLE, REAL STORIES
Meet Kelly
For most of Kelly’s life, the only pain she experienced was when stubbing a toe or a hand gets jammed in a door. It wasn’t until a severe car accident about 45 years ago that she started to feel pain in her back.
In the early years after the accident, Kelly knew something was different. Throughout the course of a day, her back would become fatigued. She considered it mild pain.
“I could still do everything, and it didn’t change my life. I’d wake up feeling good, and by the end of the day, I just needed to rest my back.”
About ten years after the accident, Kelly came down with a virus that had her sidelined for close to three weeks. She was resorted to her bed most days with extreme dizziness. Once she recovered from that, Kelly went back to work, and by the second day, she began to feel excruciating pain in her back.
Nura Understands Your Pain
“It’s almost like the virus caused something to shift, and I was left with intense back pain.”
Hoping to find some answers, Kelly reached out to a hospital system for help. After an initial appointment, she was told nothing was wrong and instructed to rest and try physical therapy. None of that helped, and her pain got worse.
“Everything changed from that point on – I had to modify my work as a housekeeper, my social life changed, everything. I had chronic pain.”
Kelly went to her primary care provider, saw other specialists, and even went to a pain program and continued to receive the same response – there was nothing wrong. Although she was told it was all in her head, Kelly knew something wasn’t right. The pain was debilitating and was beginning to make her feel hopeless.
She decided to switch providers, and that is when she was referred to Nura. During her first visit, she met with Dr. David Schultz, who reassured her that her pain was not in her head and was finally met with a possible solution. For months, Kelly came in for different injections, RFAs, and other treatments.
“If one treatment didn’t work, we would move on to the next. There are always options with Nura.”
Although it took several months, she began to feel her pain level decrease significantly from a 10 to a 5 and, at some points, even a 2 or 3. She finally had a treatment plan that was working where she would come in for injections a few times a year. Striving to be at a pain score of 2 or 3, Kelly and her Nura care team are exploring trialing a neurostimulator or pain pump implant.
“It’s so refreshing to be at Nura where I am believed and always treated with respect and compassion. It’s worth the two-hour drive.”
Find Pain Relief
Schedule an appointment with one of our pain specialists by filling out our appointment request form or giving us a call at 763-537-6000.
