CREDIT GUYER AND TEXAS BACK FOR TIGER WOOD’S HISTORIC COMEBACK (Orthopedics This Week)
Tiger Woods made an historic and jaw-dropping comeback at this year’s Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia, winning his fifth green jacket and his 15th major title.
Two years ago, probably the only person on planet earth who might have dared dream that Tiger Woods would be back at the top of his profession was… Dr. Richard Guyer of The Texas Back Institute.
Dr. Guyer, like thousands of other dedicated spine and neuro surgeons, understands how to give their patients their lives back. Only one patient ever bounced back after spine fusion surgery to win the Masters, but other patients bounce back to star in their own versions of the Masters—pick up their grandchildren, return to work, church, life.
For Woods, however, even picking up his own children was not a possibility. He was done. His words. After years of intense conservative therapy followed by multiple back surgeries, injections, nerve block and other interventions, Tiger Woods, one of the most dominating professional golf players in history, was still in pain 24/7.
At his lowest point, he had resigned himself to retire permanently f...
