Michael Ram
October, 2021
I developed excruciating lower back pain in 2001. I was a tennis player, downhill skier, and a marathon runner. I was also under a lot of financial pressure in a stressful job as a consumer class action lawyer.
My doctor diagnosed me with a herniated disc at L4-L5. He said that a piece of my disc was sitting on the nerve. I tried everything to stop my pain but nothing worked. In January 2002 I underwent a laminectomy which removed some of the vertebral bone next to the herniation to make room for the nerve root. Read more