{"id":39476,"date":"2025-08-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-southcoast-health-multi.southcoast-health.org\/news\/grateful-patients-story-of-surgical-success\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T15:11:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T20:11:37","slug":"grateful-patients-story-of-surgical-success","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/news\/grateful-patients-story-of-surgical-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Historia de \u00e9xito quir\u00fargico de una paciente agradecida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Para Brian St. Arnauld, propietario de una empresa local de calefacci\u00f3n, cada d\u00eda de trabajo requiere fuerza y movilidad. Pero en enero, un giro repentino al coger algo le dej\u00f3 congelado e inmovilizado. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"Sent\u00ed que algo se me retorc\u00eda en la espalda y me dol\u00eda mucho; apenas pod\u00eda andar\", cuenta Brian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>La lesi\u00f3n le oblig\u00f3 a estar de baja durante semanas. Un reto importante para alguien que trabaja por cuenta propia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tras visitar a su m\u00e9dico, se someti\u00f3 a una resonancia magn\u00e9tica y le diagnosticaron una hernia discal. Comenz\u00f3 el tratamiento, pero cuando el dolor no mejor\u00f3, supo que hab\u00eda llegado el momento de consultar a un especialista.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"No mejoraba. Ten\u00eda un dolor intenso en los nervios y sent\u00eda entumecimiento desde el pie hasta la mitad de la pierna hasta la rodilla\", dijo. \"Fue entonces cuando conoc\u00ed al doctor Dowd\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/doctors\/richard-dowd\/\">Richard Dowd, MD, MS<\/a> es neurocirujano en <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/services\/brain-and-spine-treatment\/\">Southcoast Health Cerebro y Columna<\/a> que diagnostica y trata numerosas enfermedades que afectan al sistema nervioso, incluidos el cerebro, la m\u00e9dula espinal y los nervios. El Dr. Dowd confirm\u00f3 el diagn\u00f3stico original de Brian y le program\u00f3 r\u00e1pidamente una operaci\u00f3n de radiculopat\u00eda lumbar, una opci\u00f3n cuando los tratamientos medicinales iniciales no consiguen aliviar el dolor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A pesar de sentirse ansioso por someterse a su primera cirug\u00eda, Brian explic\u00f3 que el Dr. Dowd y su equipo le hicieron sentirse completamente a gusto. \"Es un gran m\u00e9dico, tranquilo, paciente y tranquilizador. Se asegur\u00f3 de que sab\u00eda exactamente qu\u00e9 esperar antes, durante y despu\u00e9s del procedimiento. El personal de la oficina tambi\u00e9n fue muy comunicativo y respondi\u00f3 a todas mis preguntas.\"&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tras la intervenci\u00f3n, su recuperaci\u00f3n incluy\u00f3 fisioterapia y el Dr. Dowd le anim\u00f3 a seguir con el plan. El consejo dio sus frutos con una recuperaci\u00f3n sin problemas y en una de sus citas de seguimiento el Dr. Dowd le dej\u00f3 un aliento m\u00e1s: \"Ahora vete a vivir tu vida\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adem\u00e1s del tratamiento que recibi\u00f3, la rapidez de la atenci\u00f3n fue un alivio a\u00f1adido para Brian, que sent\u00eda la tensi\u00f3n mental de no poder trabajar. \"No s\u00f3lo era doloroso f\u00edsicamente: era estresante mentalmente. Me sent\u00eda deprimido por no poder trabajar\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brian estaba tan conmovido por su experiencia como paciente en Southcoast Health Brain &amp; Spine que nomin\u00f3 al Dr. Dowd como Southcoast Star a trav\u00e9s del programa The Grateful Patient, una forma significativa de reconocer la excelente atenci\u00f3n que recibi\u00f3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"Estoy muy agradecido por todo lo que el Dr. Dowd y su equipo hicieron por m\u00ed\", dijo Brian. \"Siento que he recuperado mi vida\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Si desea homenajear a un cuidador de Southcoast Health con un agradecimiento impactante, visite <a href=\"\/es\/Users\/coxkai\/AppData\/Local\/Microsoft\/Windows\/INetCache\/Content.Outlook\/IS1ZJKDU\/www.southcoast.org\/the-grateful-patient-program\/\">www.southcoast.org\/the-grateful-patient-program\/<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":39477,"template":"","categories":[1231],"class_list":["post-39476","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patient-stories"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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