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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 
DiscLogix machine

Dr. Cogan 
using the 
SpineForce 
machine

Dr. Sol 
Cogan at 
his desk