Just a reminder...Cruise Indy 2020 is throttling forward and moving into next year, due to COVID-19. The new date is September 18, 2021. All who have registered can either move their registration to next year or be refunded. Please contact Sandra Haugo @ 317-275-1947 or shaugo@indianaspinegroup.com or visit www.cruiseindy.com for more information. See you in 2021!!!
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Indiana Spine Group welcomes Dr. Jeff Konopka. Dr. Konopka is a board eligible fellowship trained orthopaedic spine surgeon, who
is a native Hoosier and grew up in Greenwood, IN. (Center Grove
High School).
Dr. Konopka will be seeing patients in our Greenwood office and our new offices in Columbus and Bloomington. Welcome Dr. Konopka!
For more information please click on the link: https://www.indianaspinegroup.com/jeffrey-a-konopka-m-d/
To make an appointment call: 317-428-5043
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Jeffrey A. Konopka, M.D. - Indiana Spine Group
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For the 2nd year in a row, Indiana Spine Hospital is awarded one of the Best Places to Work in Indiana. Chief Nursing Officer, Barbara Bridges and Surgical Team Lead, Jessica Richmond are very proud of this accomplishment and very thankful for their wonderful team. GREAT JOB!!! For more information on Indiana Spine Hospital, visit our website @: www.IndianaSpineHospital.com
In case you missed it...
One of our newest spine surgeons, Dr. Michael H. McCarthy was featured on Fox 59 morning news.
Check it out!
https://fox59.com/morning-news/preventing-reducing-back-pain/
Dr. McCarthy is seeing patients at our Lebanon, Zionsville & Carmel locations.
To make an appointment please call: 317-228-7000.
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Preventing, reducing back pain
One of our newest spine surgeons, Dr. Michael H. McCarthy will be featured tomorrow, Wednesday, August 26th on Fox 59 morning news. Tune in at 9:10am or livestream at Fox59.com.
Topic: Common sources of back pain, nonoperative/conservative measures to treat back pain and when to seek treatment.
Dr. McCarthy is seeing patients at our Lebanon, Zionsville & Carmel locations.
For more information on Dr. Michael McCarthy please visit: https://www.indianaspinegroup.com/michael-h-mccarthy-m-d/
To make an appointment please call: 317-228-7000.
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Meet Mack Bentz, Jr:
Mack first arrived at the doors of Indiana Spine Group in September 2019.
Rewind back to the year 2007, when he was diagnosed with spinal stenosis (a narrowing of the spaces in your spine which may put pressure on the spinal cord/nerves). Several surgeries were performed, by an outside group at that time, to relieve pain in his back and neck. Unfortunately, he did not improve. Mack ultimately lived with his pain for over ten years and in 2017, things began to change when he became progressively weaker, developed balance issues, and subsequently began to fall. In a relatively short period of time, over the course of 6-12 months, he digressed from using a cane, to a stationary walker, to a rollator walker, and ultimately becoming wheelchair bound. In 2018, he was forced to move into an assisted living facility because he had lost his independence.
In early 2019, Mack decided to see a neurologist, who told him there was nothing that could be done to help. Mack obtained a second opinion with a neurosurgeon that stated his spinal cord was compressed in his neck causing his issues, however they wouldn’t operate because of the risks involved.
Determined to find a better solution, Mack went to see his primary care physician, Kathryn M. Colteryahn, M.D. for further advice. Dr. Colteryahn gave Mack the hope he was waiting for; she recommended seeing Dr. Justin Miller at Indiana Spine Group.
Dr. Miller saw Mack, in our Danville office, for the first time in September 2019, wherein he gave his story/history. After a thorough evaluation and discussing Mack’s options to possibly get his life back on track, Dr. Miller ultimately performed surgery on his cervical spine at Hendricks Regional Hospital in October 2019. Dr. Miller removed the pressure from the spinal cord and stabilized his head and neck to further protect the spinal cord and hopefully allow it to heal. Since then, Mack has improved tremendously and can now perform most of life’s daily activities independently. He is living pain-free and his goal is to transfer out of rehabilitation and return to assisted living. “A person has to have goals, even at 87 years old, right?”, said Mack.
A huge thank you to Mack and his family, for giving Indiana Spine Group and Dr. Justin Miller the opportunity to make a difference in his life.
Indiana Spine Group is currently enrolling patients for the following clinical study:
Indiana Spine Group, located at 13225 N. Meridian Street, Carmel, IN 46032, Dr. Rick Sasso, Dr. Joseph Smucker & Dr. Paul Kraemer are participating in a nationwide clinical trial investigating the treatment of Two-Level Symptomatic Cervical Disc Disease (SCDD). The purpose of the study is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of prodisc® C SK and prodisc® C Vivo compared to Mobi-C®. If you are between 18 and 69 years of age, suffering from neck and arm pain due to cervical disc disease or think you might be, and have not responded to non-operative, conservative treatment, please contact Sheetal Vinayek, 317-715-5897, svinayek@indianaspinegroup.com, for more information about this study, visit ClinicalTrials.gov (Identifier NCT04012996) at https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04012996.
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Kevin Macadaeg, MD at Indiana Spine Group and Eeric Truumees, MD at Ascension Texas Spine and Scoliosis Center lead the Relievant 12-month Intracept Effectiveness Study...
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On March 6th Indiana Spine Group and the Medical Academic Center are honored to host the first ever "Virtual" Reverse Raffle to benefit Camp Riley provided by ESA Gamma-Pi. Join in on the fun to benefit Camp Riley for youth with physical disabilities.
This is your chance to join the fun virtually! If conditions permit, why not host a small watch party with friends from your living room? Or, grab that glass of wine, put on your jammies, sit back and enjoy the fun as you wait to see who will win the $1,000 grand prize!
Tickets for this event are $25.00 and are available by sending a message to this page: https://fb.me/e/1uHc9jTFL or emailing gammapigaming@gmail.com. Cash, check, or VENMO only; Tickets must be purchased by March 5.
For more information on Gamma Pi and the event, click here:
https://www.esagammapi.com
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ReActiv8, a new, FDA approved, Restorative Neurostimulation therapy for mechanical chronic low back pain is coming soon to Indiana Spine Group. ReActiv8 is a small implantable electronic device that reactivates the key stabilizing muscles of the lower back. Over time, ReActiv8 can help patients rehabilitate and regain control over these stabilizing muscles, breaking the cycle of chronic low back pain.
Congratulations to our physicians – Jonathan Gentile MD, Robert D Funk, MD and Jose Vitto, MD – on the recent release of the long-term data for the ReActiv8-B Clinical Trial at the NANS conference.
Our chiropractor, Dr. Shelly Barkat, discusses taking on healthy habits and lifestyle changes in the new year. See what she has to say!
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We want to commend one of our founders, Dr. Rick Sasso, for his many achievements as the 2020 President of the Cervical Spine Research Society (CSRS). Below are a few accomplishments we would like to highlight:
- He created the first CSRS Cadaver Course for Spine Fellows and Residents – beginning July 2021.
- He established a new CSRS Spinal Cord Injury Research Grant, supporting research on disorders specifically affecting the cervical spinal cord.
- He developed the No Strike Out Protocol to prevent complications of airway obstruction after anterior cervical surgery.
View the current President’s full message thanking Dr. Sasso for his leadership skills in 2020. https://www.csrs.org/news-and-events/presidents-message
Ellen Lucas, one of our newest employees, tells us why she joined Indiana Spine Group.
