I’ve had years of chronic back pain and was recently diagnosed with Degenerative Disc Disease. My husband and I started the journey of speaking with surgeons and specialists and honestly had a lot of discouraging conversations that ranged from needing spinal surgery to needing to equip our house to be ADA approved for my inevitable decline. As a woman in her 20’s, this news was jarring. My husband and I felt we needed to take the month of February to seek the Lord and discern what we should do next. In that month we stumbled across Crossroads Brain and Spine and were honestly willing to hear anyone out at this point. In my free consultation appointment, Dr. Lea and his staff offered me genuine hope for the first time in years. I left my first meeting knowing in my soul this was a team I could trust. They walked me through the entire office, attentively listened to my entire story without rushing or cutting me off, asked follow up questions for clarity, had extreme knowledge and explained why I was experiencing specific symptoms (which no one has been able to articulate), and created a personalized treatment plan based on what he saw from my scans and heard from my pain. I’m currently halfway through my treatment program and the results have been unparalleled. For the first time in years, my pain has decreased to almost nothing and I’m back to some of the activities I love: walking with my husband, hiking, etc. That alone is incredible because I was told I would never be able to experience those activities again. His team is so patient and so kind. They know about me and my family, my job and my hobbies. When they say they care, they mean it. You can tell by the way they look at you it’s more than a job to them.