{"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\/pt\/news\/grateful-patients-story-of-surgical-success\/","title":{"rendered":"A hist\u00f3ria de sucesso cir\u00fargico de um paciente agradecido"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Para Brian St. Arnauld, propriet\u00e1rio de uma empresa local de aquecimento, todos os dias de trabalho exigem for\u00e7a e mobilidade. Mas, em janeiro, uma tor\u00e7\u00e3o s\u00fabita enquanto tentava apanhar algo deixou-o congelado e imobilizado. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"Senti algo a torcer-se nas minhas costas e foi muito doloroso - mal conseguia andar\", disse Brian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A les\u00e3o obrigou-o a faltar ao trabalho durante semanas. Um desafio significativo para quem trabalha por conta pr\u00f3pria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Depois de consultar o seu m\u00e9dico, foi submetido a uma resson\u00e2ncia magn\u00e9tica e foi-lhe diagnosticada uma h\u00e9rnia discal. Come\u00e7ou o tratamento, mas quando as dores n\u00e3o melhoraram, soube que era altura de consultar um especialista.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"A situa\u00e7\u00e3o n\u00e3o estava a melhorar. Tinha dores intensas nos nervos e sentia dorm\u00eancia desde o p\u00e9, a meio da perna, at\u00e9 ao joelho\", disse. \"Foi quando conheci o Dr. Dowd.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/pt\/doctors\/richard-dowd\/\">Richard Dowd, MD, MS<\/a> \u00e9 neurocirurgi\u00e3o na <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/pt\/services\/brain-and-spine-treatment\/\">Southcoast Health Brain &amp; Spine (C\u00e9rebro e coluna vertebral)<\/a> que diagnostica e trata in\u00fameras doen\u00e7as que afectam o sistema nervoso, incluindo o c\u00e9rebro, a medula espinal e os nervos. O Dr. Dowd confirmou o diagn\u00f3stico original de Brian e rapidamente o marcou para uma cirurgia de radiculopatia lombar, uma op\u00e7\u00e3o quando os tratamentos medicinais iniciais n\u00e3o conseguem aliviar a dor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apesar de se sentir ansioso por fazer a sua primeira cirurgia, Brian explicou que o Dr. Dowd e a sua equipa o fizeram sentir-se completamente \u00e0 vontade. \"Ele \u00e9 um \u00f3timo m\u00e9dico, calmo, paciente e tranquilizador. Certificou-se de que eu sabia exatamente o que esperar antes, durante e ap\u00f3s o procedimento. Os funcion\u00e1rios do consult\u00f3rio tamb\u00e9m foram muito comunicativos e responderam a todas as minhas perguntas.\"&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ap\u00f3s o procedimento, a sua recupera\u00e7\u00e3o incluiu fisioterapia e o Dr. Dowd encorajou-o a manter-se empenhado no plano. O conselho valeu a pena com uma recupera\u00e7\u00e3o tranquila e, numa das consultas de acompanhamento, o Dr. Dowd deixou-lhe mais um incentivo - \"Agora vai viver a tua vida.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Para al\u00e9m do tratamento que recebeu, a rapidez dos cuidados foi um al\u00edvio adicional para Brian, que estava a sentir a tens\u00e3o mental de n\u00e3o poder trabalhar. \"N\u00e3o era apenas fisicamente doloroso - era mentalmente stressante. Sentia-me deprimido por n\u00e3o poder trabalhar\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brian ficou t\u00e3o comovido com a sua experi\u00eancia como paciente no Southcoast Health Brain &amp; Spine que nomeou o Dr. Dowd como uma Estrela do Southcoast atrav\u00e9s do programa The Grateful Patient, uma forma significativa de reconhecer os cuidados excepcionais que recebeu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"Estou muito grato por tudo o que o Dr. Dowd e a sua equipa fizeram por mim\", disse Brian. \"Sinto que tenho a minha vida de volta\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Se pretender homenagear um prestador de cuidados de sa\u00fade da Southcoast Health com um agradecimento impactante, visite <a href=\"\/pt\/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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