Her pain began last September, but she didn’t see a doctor and have the proper tests until November. By then, Tebeau learned she had two herniated disks, one of which required surgery.
Colin Haines, MD, is a spinal surgeon at Virginia Spine Institute who treats Tebeau. He says it does not surprise him that a high rate of missed care is linked to the COVID pandemic. He witnessed this for himself at his own practice and at the Virginia Spine Institute Most patients who skipped out on care this past year were women, he says.
“By the time that many patients finally saw me, the delay caused their pain to spiral out of control, requiring us to jump in and get them fixed, sometimes surgically, on a quicker timeline than we normally would have had to if they received early treatment.”“Morgan was really getting to that point where if we didn’t get her surgically fixed, that things would have continued to worsen and that the weakness and pain in her arm might become permanent.
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