#14 Doctors Share Their Experience

R. O., MD, PhD Stanford Biomedical Engineering

“The beauty of the Neural-EDx™ is in its elegant simplicity. In my private practice I have found nothing that even comes close to matching how this 15 minute test identifies the nerve root causing pain. Without the Neural-EDx™ blocking pain with a single injections with completely or greatly improve pain for 3 to 6 months is achieved in about 70% of cases, which is rather outstanding. But when guided by the Neural-EDx™ the success rate is nearly 100%.”

L. E., MD, Former Director of Johns Hopkins Pain Medicine

“You may not hear this very often, but I want you to know how amazing your device. It is without doubt the best way to locate nerve root pathology. When we started using your Neural-EDx™ it was on only cases that hadn’t responded to treatment. Over time we finally test every patient complaining of pain. Often we find radicular lesions that we would have been overlooked. It simply never seems to miss detecting the involved nerve root. Thank you Dr. Hedgecock for inventing this wonderful diagnostic tool.”

R. C. MD, PhD Director of Pain Medicine Louisiana State University

“Dr. Hedgecock blind tested, and successfully diagnosed several of our radiculopathy patients. Impressed, I asked him if he would mind examining a couple of our staff nurses who had difficult to diagnose problems. One especially confusing case was a nurse suffering chronic headaches for nearly a decade. Additionally, she also had bilateral carpal tunnel symptoms. I left Dr. Hedgecock with her and went about my rounds. When I returned, in less than 30 minutes, he called me back into the examination room. I asked if he had given up. He just smiled and began showing me the graphs and data. Based on the findings she had a left C7 radiculopathy with findings of carpal tunnel entrapment in the opposite right wrist. He stated that the left C7 was probably the cause of the headache and is confusing her CNS into feeling similar symptom from the right carpal tunnel entrapment in her left hand.

His conclusion made anatomical sense. Then he showed me something strange. The median nerve, palmar branch was abnormal, while all the other branches of the median were normal. Since the palmer branch does not pass through the carpel tunnel, I wondered how the palmar branch could be abnormal without other median branches being abnormal. Dr. Hedgecock suggested that perhaps she had injured the palm of her right hand. He hadn’t mentioned any of these findings to her, so I asked her to come into my office. We soon learned that before she became a nurse she had worked in a factory where her main job had been breaking open castings with a handheld percussion hammer. She is right handed. This blew my mind. Then Dr. Hedgecock asked if I could take another shock? He told me that if I had anterior to posterior cervical spine x-rays taken with her in side bending, her C7 would rotate in the wrong direction in either right or left side bending. He explained that when the A-delta fiber become less sensitivity there is a reduction I proprioceptive signals. And, because the injury is most likely in the nerve root, then vertebral joints have reduced proprioception and this will be manifest by abnormal rotation during side bending. I filled out the radiology form and sent her to get the views.

Sure enough, the right side bending view shows her C7 spinous which should rotate to left of the midline, rotating slightly to the right. Dr. Hedgecock showed me how to feel this abnormal motion and I felt the spinous move away from the left side when her head is tilted left, but rotates the wrong way when tiled to the right. I asked Dr. Hedgecock how to treat something like this. Unbeknownst to me, while I was retrieving the x-rays, Dr. Hedgecock had asked her if she ever went to a chiropractor for her headache. She had told him she sometimes sees a one when her headache become unbearable, but it seldom helps and sometimes made it worse. She verified that manipulation had only been applied to her upper neck, around area of the greatest pain. Hedgecock assured her that if the x-rays show what he suspects then it’s her lower neck that needs manipulation. And it would be the easiest she ever experienced. Therefore, she agree to let him manipulate her neck. Again, this was all unknown to me, so when Dr. Hedgecock said; ‘Oh, you want to know what I would treat this?’ She began giggling as Dr. Hedgecock hooked her C7 spinous process with his left middle finger, while his right hand tilted her head to the right. Then he pulled his left hand and there was a pop. Hedgecock asked me to feel the spinous process to see how it moves now. I felt that it was not reverse rotating as it had a few seconds before. After words we talked for a few minutes and I turned to her, as she set up, and I how her headache felt. She said; ‘It’s gone.’ I said; ‘It’s better already?’ She said; No, it’s gone. There is no pain at all.’ This blew my mind.”

When I moved away around 2 years later to take a position at an out of state hospital, her headache had never reoccurred. I now practice in New Zealand and use Dr. Hedgecock’s device everyday. It simply never misses. I perform the F-NCS, inject and the pain gone.

D. M., MD, Neurosurgeon, Florida

“I don’t billing for the Neural-EDx™. It allows me to be sure I am not going after the wrong nerve root. I hesitated to surgically work on nerve roots opposite the side of pain, but every time it was correct. I don’t hesitate now. I can’t imagine going back to diagnosing without this brilliant device. I literally sleep better knowing it is super unlikely that I will ever operate on the wrong spinal level or the wrong side.”

R. Z., MD, Orthopedic Surgeon, Tennessee

“We treat many of low back cases non-surgically using specific traction targeted to the specific level of entrapment. In the short time I have used your device to improve targeting, I have seen positive outcomes improve from 65% to 92%. Congratulations on inventing an excellent neurodiagnostic method. Without reservation it is the Gold-Stand for diagnosing radiculopathy.”

C. B., MD, Neurologist, EMG Board Certified, Georgia

“I was skeptical when I first heard about functional F-NCS EDx. But, after using the Neural-EDx™ for just a couple of weeks I found the results extremely accurate, the device easy to use and the measurements are totally repeatable. It takes the guess work out of interpretations by allowing the patient to act as his own control. The patient’s unique Bell-Shaped-Curve is brilliant because it eliminates all the usual variables.”

J. H., DC Irvine, California

“About 30% of my chiropractic practice is personnel injury. Since using the correlation of abnormal vertebral rotation and the level of spinal lesion, I have never had to reduce my PI bills or had to even negotiate settlement. In fact, now I never am asked to sit through a deposition. The correlation proves the lesion is real and post F-NCS and imaging prove the degree of improvement. The argument over the patient faking symptoms finished. Attorneys are happy with good settlements, while patients are happy with their improved outcomes. The Neural-EDx™ makes the entire process simple and a win, win, win, for everyone.”