Wayne Magazine Fall 2015 | Page 11

BACK OR NECK PAIN HOLDING YOU BACK? Get Back to Life in 2015 Haide, a Patient Success Story of North Jersey Spine Group HAIDE’S neck pain symptoms in 2013 and 2014 had ultimately worsened to the point that they prevented her from enjoying most of her favorite activities, including travel or even driving to the store. “The numbness and weakness I felt in my left leg had me fearful to go to the grocery store,” Haide remembers, “because I was afraid of falling.” As time passed, instead of her symptoms getting better, they worsened over the year. Simple activities such as driving, getting dressed and walking stairs became impossible for her to complete on her own. She met with Dr. Raab at North Jersey Spine Group where an MRI revealed that Haide’s neck pain was caused by cervical stenosis — a narrowing of the spinal