iFuse Patient Stories | SI-BONE
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What's Your Back Story?

People who have had ongoing low back pain, an SI joint dysfunction diagnosis, and the iFuse procedure share their own personal journeys.

Perspectives of iFuse Patients

These iFuse patients share their stories of how sacroiliac joint pain affected their lives and their experience with the iFuse Implant System. There are potential risks associated with the iFuse Implant System. It may not be appropriate for all patients and not all patients may benefit. See more information about the risks.

Most of these patients experienced sacroiliac joint disruptions and/or degenerative sacroiliitis for years before seeking out or discovering MIS SI joint fusion.

Lacey

Patient - Lacey Profile Photo
SI Joint Trauma

Lacey was a pre-K special education teacher, and she fell while chasing after a child. At the time of the fall, she was a new mother of a five month old boy, and her suffering was to the point where she couldn’t take care of him.

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Kevin

Patient - Kevin Profile Photo
SI Joint Degeneration

Kevin couldn’t walk up stairs. He couldn’t lift his kids or do anything with his family. It got to a point where he and his wife simply had to find something that was going to help.

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Leigh

Patient - Leigh
SI Joint Degeneration

Leigh underwent the iFuse procedure in September of 2008. Soon after her surgery she felt the deep SI joint pain slowly dissipate, and within three months, Leigh had returned to her work at the hospital resuming her normal duties.

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Suzanne

Patient - Suzanne Profile Photo
SI Joint Trauma

Suzanne first felt the back pain after she slipped in a hallway where she was teaching and landed on her bottom. The next day, she was hurting so much, she could hardly get out of bed. 

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James

Patient - James Thumb
SI Joint Degeneration

After 10 years of suffering with lower back symptoms, Dr. James Mamary was diagnosed with degenerative sacroiliitis. As a pulmonologist, Dr. Mamary often spends 8 to 10 hours in the bronchoscopy suite on his feet in a lead apron. His personal life also suffered as he had to decrease activities with family and friends.

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Andel

Patient - Andel Profile Photo
SI Joint Degeneration

Andel's pain came on gradually, and when she finally went to the doctor, it took about a year and a half to be diagnosed.

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Deborah

Patient - Deborah - thumb
SI Joint Degeneration

The procedure went very well. I was up and out of bed that same day, into physical therapy. I have no awareness of having the implants in my back at all. I gardened all summer, and it was no problem for me.

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Ray

SI Buddy Ray
SI Joint Degeneration

I went to my doctor with persistent low back problems several years after undergoing hip replacement surgery. I was spending many hours in physical therapy without experiencing any relief.

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Sheri

Patient - Sheri Thumb
SI Joint Degeneration

Sheri was treated with physical therapy and lumbar injections for six years. Everything changed for her in February 2012 when her pain physician learned of the iFuse Implant System® as an option for sacroiliac joint disruption and degenerative sacroiliitis.

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Ananda

Patient - Ananda
Prior Lumbar Fusion

Ananda was born with spondylolisthesis, a condition that allowed one of her lumbar vertebra to slip forward on top of the vertebra below. The SI joint pain came on so suddenly, she had to withdraw from college classes because she could no longer climb stairs.

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Karan

Paitient - Karan Profile Photo
SI Joint Degeneration

Karen tried all sorts of things to manage her pain, including physical therapy, anti-inflammatories, heating pads, ice packs, and staying off her feet. But ultimately, she had no success prior to pursuing SI joint treatment 

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Bill

Patient - Bill Profile Photo
SI Joint Degeneration

Bill’s SI joint pain was part of a bigger set of problems he had with his lower back. To help relieve his lower back pain, Bill had a series of spinal injections and a rhizotomy, a medical procedure that burns the nerve roots in the area where the pain is located. For about a year following the rhizotomy, Bill was pain free, but then the pain came back.

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Dee

Patient - Dee Profile Photo
SI Joint Trauma

Dee was critically injured in a car accident, and found herself in tremendous pain. She felt she was sitting on a seat of knives. She wanted to get on the floor to play with her grandchildren, but she couldn’t. Any movement hurt, even getting out of bed.

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SI Joint Pain Case Studies

Stories based on an aggregate of several true patient stories with similar history and presentation.

Mary

Female Silo
SI Joint Trauma

Mary's Insurance Appeal for iFuse Success Story

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Barbara

Female Silo
Pregnancy Related

Barbara's Story of Postpartum SI Joint Pain and Treatment

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Sarah

Female Silo
SI Joint Trauma

Sarah's Journey to SI Joint Pain Relief After a Fall

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Bob

Male Silo
Prior Lumbar Fusion

Bob's Journey to SI Joint Pain Relief

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If you are a patient recommended for the iFuse Implant procedure by a trained surgeon, the SI Buddy program is designed for you. SI Buddy participants are not medical or clinical professionals, they are patients who underwent the iFuse procedure and volunteer their time to share their iFuse experience with others.

Remember, there are potential risks associated with any surgery, including the iFuse Implant System. It may not be appropriate for all patients and not all patients may benefit.

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