Second Chances: Allan’s Success Story*

This 61-year-old Tucson, AZ resident has raised 12 foster children in addition to his one adopted and two biological daughters. His own family background is equally diverse, so he preaches open-mindedness and compassion. He loves serving others, and he got a Ph.D. in Psychology to help people with mental disorders. However, chronic back pain forced him to withdraw from the activities he loved.

Simple actions like driving and sitting were excruciating for Allan. His chronic pain forced him to stay at home, which made him feel cut off from the rest of the world and depressed. Over the years, Allan “tried everything” to control his pain, including 44 surgeries, injections, physical therapy, and pain medications. At one point, he was taking as many as 20 pain pills a day, and he still got very little relief.

Feeling like he was “at the end of his rope,” Allan heard about SCS. He decided to try it, and he estimates that it controls 99% of his pain. He has reduced his medications, and Allan is thrilled to report that his “happy-go-lucky attitude” has returned.

He finds the system to be “easy to use,” and he calls the day he received his stimulator his “new birthday” because he felt like he was reborn into a new body. After years of giving others second chances, Allan is thankful for his second chance at a life without chronic pain.

*The above testimonial is the experience of this individual only. It is an individual result and we do not claim that it is representative of the experience that all or most patients achieve and is not indicative of future performance or success.