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Article: Back surgery: Less is more
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
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- January 3, 2006
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Dr. Stephen Lang shows some of the tools he uses in performing minimally invasive back surgery.(PHOTO) (THE HARTFORD COURANT)
When back and leg pain and numbness blew the whistle on basketball and softball for Patty Hunter earlier this year, she was more than eager to get back into the game.
"I'm not the kind of person who is easy to stop," says the 43-year-old graphic designer from Ellington, Conn.
She consulted with Dr. Stephan Lange, a neurosurgeon at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, Conn., who determined that surgery would help and that minimally invasive lumbar, or lower spine, surgery could get her ...