- I been having this problem like for more than nine years.
You know, one time I was playing baseball in my country,
so I feel a cramp in my leg.
Since then, it has never gone away.
So I've been feeling this more for ten years.
In my back low pain.
Sometime I feel it strong.
Sometimes it go away,
Sometime, I feel like I'm pregnant.
You know, when a woman is nine month pregnant.
Like they go like oh, can't sit.
Same thing.
- Gotcha.
- Sometimes.
And I see a video on Facebook
and I decided to see the doctor
to see if I can get help with this problem.
I've been carrying for more than 10 years, you know?
- Okay, so let's take a look
and see what we can do to help you.
Okay?
- Thank you.
- Here's the deal, okay?
See this over here?
This is the fifth lumbar disc, okay?
Ideally, I'd like to see it a lot bigger than that.
So I'm talking like this fellow over here.
But no, that's really, really reduced
disc height on the back.
So in that sense,
I wanna see it look like this fella.
I don't wanna see this
and that's what we got in the back, okay?
So, yeah.
Instead of having this nice happy space over here
and that's ...
By the way this is the actual dimension
of the spinal nerve.
They're this big.
You don't need a microscope,
they're this huge, okay?
Then look, there's so much degeneration,
there's so much seve ...
so much damage to this fellow over here.
See that? There's pretty much no space in there.
- Yeah, there's no space.
- Right. And it really is pinching the nerve on there,
physically.
99 percent of the time it doesn't.
Inflammation usually pinches the nerve,
but now you've got inflammation
plus a physical obstruction itself.
Look at that, there's just no space for that nerve.
So yeah, that helps explain why you've been feeling
that side ache in there for the past ten years.
There's so much breakdown in there.
So but there is a little hope,
because you have a little space in the front, 'kay?
So what we're gonna do is
we're gonna structure and recorrect this fella.
Try to increase this opening space over here,
take some pressure off that nerve over there, alright?
Okay, so let's roll.
Okay, we gotta really tilt the scope
because this fella is so chronic and old.
See there is goes, there's a reading right there.
So as we see over here,
there's quite a bit of swelling right here.
It's chronic.
It's not like a very big swelling,
but you see this?
It's really boggy.
You feel that difference there?
- [Patient] Yeah.
- [Dr. Suh] It should be nice and smooth like over here
but no, this is very boggy.
Chronic, very old. A lot of tight muscles on the right side
nice and loose on the left side.
Tender right there?
Right in that spot, huh?
- Yeah.
- See, I could easily rotate you to the right,
not too much to the left.
That's the fella, the fifth lumbar.
That's what we're here to fix on you.
So, here's the deal, okay?
With degenerative joint disease, DJD for short,
because there is decreased disc height over here,
ideally we wanna try to increase the disc space
a little bit, okay.
So, what we're gonna do is this.
Because it's nighttime, and very late in the day,
what time is it right now, seven o'clock p.m.
So, ideally I like to correct this first thing in
the morning, okay, because with bedrest and
when you're sleeping during the night,
it rehydrates the disc and gives a little more
opening space for us to work with.
Since it's late night, so what we're gonna do
is ice this fella down, okay.
Calm it down, try to rehydrate the disc a little bit.
So, it gives us that little extra space so
it could correct that structure of the disc
a lot more better.
[Back Cracking]
Come on up.
- It's gone away.
I got this little nerve that I feel it.
Now I don't feel it no more.
- Ain't that somethin' huh?
- So many years.
Oh my god. I don't feel it.
- Ain't that something.
- I just feel it.
You know, I walk in, I just feel it all day.
All the time I was here.
I stand like that because I feel this nerve here.
- Mm Hmm.
- But now, look.
- Look at you, dancing now, right?
- My god. How long you been here?
- Mmm?
- How long you been here?
- A long time.
- My god.
- So, where you've been, brother?
I've been here all the time.
- I've been on Staten Island.
- That's why.
[Laughing]
- I saw your Facebook, and I said I gotta see this guy.
He do miracle for people and I see a lot of video.
Thanks a lot.
- You're welcome.
- Oh my god.
- Ain't that something?
- I can't believe it. I can't feel anything.
Beautiful. The best.
- You're welcome.
- Oh my god.
Real simple?
- Mm hmm. All set?
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.