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ocal back expert Dr. Sol
Cogan recently had his own
experience with excruciating
back pain on a trip to Chile with
his son. Now, during October’s
Spine Health Awareness Month,
Cogan wants to share his story
about his personal healing journey
using a unique-to-Michigan back
strengthening machine called
SpineForce, as well as offering
Metro Detroiters the opportunity to
benefit from the machine.
Cogan’s 11-year-old son is a
talented skier and wanted to take
advantage of Chile’s winter season
(our summer) to practice skiing,
so Cogan was joining his son in
extreme skiing: careering around
the slopes, jumping off cliffs and
hiking up mountains at the end of
August. Cogan neglected to keep
up with his regular back exercises,
which had kept an old spine injury
from his younger days as a wrestler
at bay. Suddenly, he was in agony.
“I blew a disc in my back and
knew I was in trouble, wondering
how I would get home,” said Cogan,
founder of The Nerve and Disc
Institute in Farmington, who has
spent the last two decades taking
care of professional athletes,
including the Detroit Lions, and has
been the team chiropractor for the
Detroit Tigers since 2016.
Cogan was prescribed heavy-duty
pain-relieving drugs in Chile for
the herniated disc, which barely
helped his pain, so as soon as he
got home to Metro Detroit he
went to his own clinic. He quickly
began spinal disc repair treatment
with his own proprietary therapy,
IntraDiscNutrosis, which uses the
DiscLogix machine to provide
healing for repairs such as bulging,
herniated and degenerative discs.
The benefits of the treatment have
been backed up by research in a
peer-reviewed journal.
After a couple of weeks, Cogan
was feeling much better but realized
that strengthening his spine was
going to be paramount to avoiding
a similar injury in the future. That
is when he turned to SpineForce,
a 2,000-pound piece of equipment
in his office from France. It is the
only one in Michigan and now
located at his Farmington clinic.
It improves coordination and
strength of intrinsic muscles around
the spine for long-term stability
and injury prevention. The spinal
rehabilitation machine only requires
10 to 15 minutes of push-and-pull
strengthening exercises two or three
times a week for up to 12 weeks.
Now, through November, Cogan
wants to offer Metro Detroiters an
opportunity to use the SpineForce
machine at a special low cost.
Normally an initial assessment and
first session are $167, but now it is
being offered for only $67.
“I spend my days treating
people with back issues, but until
my recent experience I had truly
forgotten how it feels to be in so
much pain. It was a very humbling
experience as it brought me to my
knees,” Cogan said. “Assisting the
disc to heal is the first step with
IntraDiscNutrosis and for many
people that will be enough to
keep them healthy if they do their
exercises.
“But for people like me who
are extremely active and who
want to strengthen their spine for
added protection against injury,
SpineForce can make all the
difference.” Cogan is now using the
SpineForce machine himself and
describes himself as 95% better in
just six weeks.
For more information, go to nervediscinstitute.
com or call (586) 416-3472. There are clinics
in Farmington, Clinton Township and Grand
Blanc.
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A patient on the
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Dr. Cogan
using the
SpineForce
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Dr. Sol
Cogan at
his desk