Mr Martin Knight/Colrob1 Please Help

[Sun Hwa-Kwon]

I am so glad to read this. Thanks dr. Knight !!!!!

 

[rosa_giffin]

That's brilliant news! Isn't it fantastic to be able to walk upright again?
5 weeks post-op for me and I still get excited about that, although in my case I've lost about an inch in height

Just take it easy now and do everything Mr Knight has told you. Good luck with your recovery.

 

[graciela]

GOOD FOR YOU LENTINN, CHALK ANOTHER ONE UP FOR MK!!

IT DOES WHAT IT SAID ON THE TIN PEOPLE!!

Bare in mind though friends, Mr. Knight is not a majician, spine injuries are complex issues and you need to do your own homework to understand your induvidual problems, before arriving at a prognosis your happy with.

As she atests, things did not workout for Mad Maz (below), but as she can still reccomend MK, that should speaks volumes to you!!
It also shows the extent to which Mad has been prepared to go to understand her condition. You can take a leaf out of her book friends!

All the very best wishes to you Mad!!

Best wishes to all fellow sufferers

SPINELF

 

[pinkybunny9]

i am considering a procedure with Mr Knight becasue I have a bulging disc with a leaking annular tear that is casuing leg/buttock and back pain. I spent a fair time there but did find us going round in circles a little as to how effective he believed the procedure is for sealing the tear. it always came back to overall stats (80% have 50% or more reduction in pain at 2-4 years)
has anybody had a similiar problem treated by Mr knight and what was the result. Any advice appreciated as its that or I have had ADR offered which is very scary.
Unfortunately i am a new member and seem to be unable to PM anybody yet
thanks

 

[talia]

I am not treated by dr. Knight but I know him very well, I know much about techniques he and other pioneers of minimally-invasive spine surgery utilize.

If you tried conservative therapy, if you have given your body time to seal this tear itself and if you don't see improvement, go to dr. Knight.

 

[Barragan L]

I agree, I am a long term anti-operation type. I have found that it takes around a year to make any change to a disc, but then it can be done and I have the mri's to prove it. But you have to change your lifestyle, after all you have a serious problem, and not many can do that.

 

[Lenny]

Believe me the last thing i want is surgery but i have been told by two consultants now that they do not believe the tear will repair itself after this length of time and the longer it stays like this the more chance there is that the damage to the nerve could become permanent. A discogram has shown a large bulge with a grade 5 annular tear that is leaking onto my sciatic nerve. The original problem was in 1999 and I have worked around that and been able to perform at a good level in sports but i did suffer from flares causing butt pain and the original HIZ never disappeared from mri scans. As part of my routine I stretch and do core stability work everyday for the past 11 years up until very recently. A year ago i started getting leg weakness and pain. This is when the disc ruptured and it has progressively got worse since causing leg weakness, burning and pins and needles in feet and but pain that makes it very difficult to do a days work never mind resume sport.
I find it a real catch 22 between movement that is essential for the disc to get nutrients and not putting strain on the disc.
What type of lifestyle changes do you refer to? I am open to any suggestions you may have
Cheers

 

[coconut]

I have posted (several times) in the past (see below for one) about my successsful L4/5 sciatic decompression operation at The Spinal Foundation, and I can confirm that I am 90% cured of my sciatic leg and hip pains at 30 months post operation. This improvement started at 30 MINUTES POST OP!

After my operation was completed in 2008 and Mr. Knight was using his 'micro endoscope' to inspect the working area before closing me up, he spotted that a small L5/S1 disc bulge, was actually bigger than the scans and x-rays had sugested and was actually leaking a thin stream of sequestria (nucleus poplosis) from an annular tear. All of the 6 previous 'scan/x-ray reports' described that my L5/S1 bulge was either small, little, slight or insignificant. Having seen it with his own eyes, What Mr. Knight realised was, that this bulge and leak WAS SIGNIFICANT and thier compression of my nerve strands explained some of my diagnostic anomallies, found during my consutation and previous tests. Sadly he was already 2 hours over my operating time and could not deal with these issues. He has expressed his sadness at this and applogised.

The site of the remaining bulge and leak (L5/S1), is the source of my remaining disabling symptoms and For the record, If I could afford the £12,000 for the (ELFD) with Mr. Knight, I would be there like a shot!!

With regards to the choice you have to make, the anwer is simple! Ask Mr. Knight for information on peer reviewed international trial results, safety and efficacy rates and clinical outcome rates for his procedures, then make sure you are at home when the parcel arrives!!
Ask the same of your NHS Surgeon, and sit by the window and
watch the 'tumble weed' just roll on by!!

I have not researched ADR specifically Trigger, but what I can tell you for sure, is that the NHS and NICE have,
no clinical information available, that would confirm the premis, that 'any' of their approved spinal decompression procedures are either safe, effective or even appropriate!!

Unless your NHS Surgeon is able to give you this written clinical information, and thereby the reasurence that his procedures are safe, Go to Mr. Knight!!

Because the phrase MISS is not 'patented', Surgeons can use it to describe their procedures, NHS Surgeons use it (as I found out) to describe any procedure, that is not 'open back surgery', in other words everything else!! One Surgeon even described his MISS procedure as (MIOSS), Minimally Invasive 'OPEN' Spinal Surgery!! MISS surgery is a closed access procedure, so this Surgeon has 'apparentlly' invented a spinal procedure that is both 'open and closed' WHY!!! Of course this 'oxymoron' of a description was just an excuss to cover up the greater truth!

I hope this helps Trigger, good luck with your decision.

SPINELF

 

[***GabbiBabe***]

I have suffered with severe back pain for a number of years and after having every possible root block or epidural possible was pretty much discarded by the NHS. In July of this year I was referred to my local hospital because I insisted that I could not jus be "abandoned". I decided to go private (thank god for my employers) and after another set of painful injections that did nothing I was told about Martin Knight. I contacted him and arranged a meeting. During the initial consultation Mr Knight told me of my options, it was clear that this was last chance saloon so I decided to go for it.
On Saturday (26th Nov 2011) I was admitted at BMI Fawkham at 06:00. At 07:45 I was taken into surgery. At 12:00 I was back in my room, only one stich in my back, fully conscious and although a bit sore didnt have that horrible pain I have had for years. The after care was second to none and at 12:00 on Sunday I was discharged.
I know that this is still so early in the day following the procedure that I still have a massive way to go and have yet to go through a period known as "the flare" This is what happens when the nerves start to repair and become very sore. I think mentally I am prepared for this (it cant be much worse than the constant pain). I'm doing my physio and doing my best to look after things. I will post on here again over the coming weeks and let you all know how it's going.
I realise that the NHS have to be careful about new procedures but surely it cannot be acceptable for them to just say that they cant/wont do anymore for patients when there are still things that need to be "fixed".
Hopefully Mr. Knight's continued work in this field will show the sceptics that there are options for people.

 

[Cypriot Princess]

Great news,

You are very lucky to have been able to have the insurance to go for the op. I know that MK will prescribe some extra strength anti inflammatories for the flare too, so shouldn;t be that bad compared to the previous times.

Please let us know how you get on

 

[soccerfreak]

I am so very glad, to see that you were able to get treatment under your your work insurance, instead of being dumped upon the long term chronic back pain scrap heap!

I hope you are well, and would encourage you to follow MK's post op directions and excercises and just take your time and only push yourself at a pace that suits you.

You are quite right KBlum, when the NHS treatment protocols are seen from a patient's point of view, using our own critical analysis, it does seem perverse and unacceptable to fail sufferers in this way, yet it still goes on happening!

I think though, that such is the 'anti-Knight' feeling among the medical establishment, it may only be after Mr Knight has retired, that we will see an open developement of NHS MISS spinal procedures.

Best wishes and kind thoughts

SPINELF

 

[~Poon Strangler~]

I cannot understand one thing...

You (UK) have one of the world's biggest experts, pioneers and innovators in field of spinal surgery. Literally, his work has revolutioned world of spinal surgery, saved hundreds of thousands people all around the world by teaching other surgeons his techniques.... And yet, you don't recognize that.

He should be recognized as world's other historical persons like Nikola Tesla, Steve Jobs, Martin Luther, Einstein, Edison, etc... I am not joking.

 

[pajfaqjz]

Hiya Keano.

I share your frustration, but you have to understand, that the internal politics and vested interests of the British surgical establishment and medical supply companies:
Must not be underestimated!!

Remember, MK claims to have the ability to help improve the physical well being of spinal patients who have previously had (failed) spinal surgery, and he is also prepared to try and help those like KBlum and myself, whom the NHS have given up on!

How do you think standard private and NHS Spinal Surgeons feel, when MK
undermines their diagnosis like this?

How do you think they feel, to see (private) work go to him, and not them?

More to the point,

How do you think they feel, when MK successfully corrects a patients
condition after ‘they’ had either failed or refused to try?

Scary, is it not?


SPINELF

 

[Ever James]

Add me to that list please, although I have refused the nhs surgery I have now been discharged as they refuse to pay for MK's operation and I feel that means that the nhs have given up on me too!!
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[Caitlyn]

That's the 'catch 22' situation we find ourselves in Cassie, either accept their destructive procedures or get nothing!!