Dr. Vince Leone walks through how to explain disc problems to patients: what they are, what causes them, symptoms to watch for, and why treatments fail. He shares how noticing a patient's scuffed shoe revealed gait problems, showing how careful observation during a consultation uncovers what patients miss about their own bodies.
And so the goal is to explain, for instance, for spinal decompression, you would explain, hey, what is a disc issue? What causes it? What are the signs and symptoms? What are the typical treatments? You know, why has everything else failed? Right. That's so if you, if you start to teach them and they're going, oh my gosh, he's right, this, that, the other. I remember, you know, I'd watch my dad do these consultations. And he would say, you see how your foot, that shoe is scuffed on the right side? They look down at their shoe. I bet you're dragging your foot and you kind of stub your toe once in a while, don't you? Yeah. How the heck did you know that? It's like he was a detective.
