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Testimonial – Singer Gloria Gaynor Thanks Dr. Melamed for Life-Changing Back Surgery

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Gloria Gaynor Thanks Dr. Melamed for Life-Changing Back Surgery · Dr. Hooman Melamed on YouTube

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Singer Gloria Gaynor says her spine problems began when she fell backwards over a monitor and was paralyzed from the waist down. She describes a first surgery that went well, a second about ten years later that left her bent over for 20 years, and growing pain that led to a third. She says Dr. Melamed operated on her spine in January 2018 and that she is now pain-free and walking straight for the first time in over 20 years.

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Medically reviewed by Dr. Hooman Melamed, MD, FAAOS

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From the video's automatic YouTube captions, edited for punctuation, capitalization and paragraph breaks. Filler sounds such as "um" are left out, and clearly misheard names and medical terms are corrected. Words that could not be made out are marked [inaudible].

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Hi, my name is Gloria Gaynor. I have suffered with my spine for so many years. The first problem that I had came in 1978 when I fell backwards over a monitor and ended up paralyzed from the waist down. I had surgery. It went very well, but then 10 years later, because one part of my spine weakened the next part, I had have surgery again.

I did, and that surgery left me bent over. I didn’t have pain at first, but I was bent over, and I walked bent over for 20 years until I had so much pain in my spine from walking, from moving, from sitting that I had have surgery again. That was in this year, in 2018.

That’s when my wonderful manager, Stephanie Gold, found Dr. Melamed, awesome orthopedic surgeon. He did the surgery on my spine January of this year, 2018, and what a miracle worker. I am pain-free. I am now walking straight as I haven’t walked in over 20 years, and I am ecstatic about this doctor.

He is absolutely wonderful. He’s got wonderful bedside manner. He is a caring, a loving, concerned physician, and if you’re looking for an orthopedic surgeon, you will not find a better one, because this man is God-sent. He truly is. Thank you, Dr. Melamed.

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