Patient Avoids Ankle Fusion with Articular Cartilage & Ligament Repair

2001, I started running marathons and I was an active runner running 70, 80 kilometers a week and did that for five, six, six years. 2006. I woke up one morning, can walk on my ankle. Um, it took me a process of a couple of years to figure out what was happening, but I had an osteochondral defect. Basically, my ankle was wearing out and I was scheduled, went to an orthopedic surgeon in Canada, was scheduled for a fusion of my ankle because there was enough damage there. Uh, three weeks out from that surgery, which I had scheduled, I cancel it. I just didn't feel good about what was going to be done and, and what that left me for the future. But I was told it was the only option that I had started looking at for natural alternatives to orthopedic surgery and there'll be old stone clinic came up and we started looking into it and I sent all my stuff away to Dr. Stone.

Had a phone consultation with him and he was the first guy who really gave me hope about what could happen with my ankle and that it actually could there was a way to see improvement and see it get better. So in 2008, November, 2008, I had a surgery on my left ankle which was an articular cartilage spacecraft and to repair the surface of the joint along with the brostrum repair to stabilize the joint. And I am seven years post that surgery now and uh, is fantastic. It's been just a tremendous success. I have full mobility in my ankle, full-range and I am 99% pain-free with the activities that I do. Just had a re MRI of my left ankle today. And it was so nice to see that solid line of articular cartilage on that joint, which is why I'm having the pain relief that am. So I'm a chiropractor in Canada and I've referred lots of patients down to Dr. Stone here, because I really believe in what's happening and I am a perfect example of how it can just really save your life, change your life.