- Cary Office:
- 400 Keisler Dr.
- Cary, NC 27518
- (919) 781.9950
- North Raleigh Office:
- 10880 Durant Rd.
- Ste. 324
- Raleigh, NC 27614
- (919) 847.8200
Testimonials from our patients
I have been a long-standing patient of Carolina Back Institute. When I became a patient I had been diagnosed with severe degenerative neck and back disease with the recommendation of surgery. I was in pain and could not do any of the things that I enjoyed greatly of life. Everyone here has been helpful and time-conscious. I was especially ...
Janice
I feel 99% better. Can't beat that! THANK YOU!
Lynn
Thank you Dr. Gwinn for all you have done for me in the past months to try to ease my pain and to make things easier for me. I feel that you have gone beyond what a lot of others would have done in an effort to help me and you will forever be in my thoughts and prayers for it. I feel that this in no small way will improve my life. Again, thank you.
Jean
Catherine Santello, PA-C is always wonderful, she listens to what you are saying, always gives you an answer to whatever it is. I've never had a more caring, sensitive, professional or one that understands the problems with my body more than Catherine. Thank you!
Bryan
After years of suffering with back pain I was referred to Dr. Gwinn at Carolina Back Institute. What an amazing experience! It is not very often where you are treated as a person, not a chart number. Dr. Gwinn and his staff have gone above and beyond in assisting me with alternatives to help relieve my pain. They are personable, compassionate, ...
Perri
Dr. Fulghum’s Bare Back Facts
- As people age, back pain and loss of height may be due to thinning of the discs.
- A physical therapist does the greatest good for people with back pain by breaking bad habits of posture and poor movement patterns.
- When anti-inflammatory medicines, muscles relaxers, walking and/or exercises are instituted immediately, episodes of back pain due to a sprained muscle usually lasts no longer than six weeks.
- A sprained back and ruptured disc may produce similar symptoms, but the sprain usually heals within six weeks.
- Ruptured, slipped and herniated discs are the same things.
- A patient with a ruptured disc in the neck or back may have a normal spinal X-ray but will usually have an abnormal MRI scan.
- A ruptured disc or bone spur requires surgery only if the severe pain and weakness persists despite conservative measures such as medication, exercise and steroid injections.
- Very few people with ruptured discs require surgery.
- Sitting increases pressure in the lower back discs five times more than standing does.
- The first back operation is the most important.
- After lumbar disc surgery, most people return to their former level of activity within six weeks.
- People who smoke usually have back pain for longer periods.
- Women are not the only ones to get osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is preventable in both men and women when diagnosis is made early enough.
