Dr. Joshua John-Ram SchacterDr. Joshua Schacter, DO FAAOS, is America’s Holistic Orthopedic Surgeon, with nearly two decades of surgical expertise.

An Athlete’s Journey From Joint Pain To Active Living Part 4

8 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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YouTube video (An Athlete’s Journey From Joint Pain To Active Living Part 4) featuring a first-person athlete/family narrative about shoulder/joint pain and care choices. In this excerpt the speaker recounts referral pathways (primary care → specialists → Pinnacle), a family recommendation to try a PBR approach before surgery, concern about the patient’s young age (17), and contrasts outcomes: surgical recovery would have required about one year out, whereas the non-surgical/PBR route returned the patient to full motion in five weeks.

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17 years old

About one year

Five weeks

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And my mom talked about you, and she was like, well, he's been doing this PBR stuff, and it might actually work. Finally, Trudy would come in and talk to us here at Pinnacle about integrating with. So we went to my health provider first, and they're just my help provider. They don't really know about shoulders and stuff like that. So then they sent us to all other specialists, and my mom talked about you, and she was like, well, he's been doing this PBR stuff, and it might actually work. And just if y' all need surgery, you know, I don't want you to have surgery because you're so young. You're only 17. So she was talking about it before, like, even the whole surgery thing came up. So it was already in my mind before, you know, this surgery even talk came up. And with surgery, he would have been out for a year. And we're back to full motion. Five weeks. Five weeks.