My L5 / S1 Microdiscectomy Spine Surgery, 2014

Published on December, 20, 2014. This is the first of a series of videos that I will post documenting my journey to recovery following back surgery. I am a 51-year-old author and illustrator of children's books. Other than working out with weights in the gym, I have no history of playing sports, so this is not a sports injury. I have no idea how the injury occurred. Dr. Kurt Von Ruden, M.D., of St. David's Neuro Texas Institute in Lakeway, Texas performed the surgery, following two rounds of with physical therapy and two epidural steriod injections. I Texas I thought this might be of interest to those going through the same thing, considering surgery.