We have entered our sixth day in Dallas, United States, and the training for Cervical Discseel® Procedure has reached its final stage. Despite the jet lag, I have been pushing through a continuous schedule of lectures, conferences, clinical practice, and more lectures from morning until night. Today, we had the interviews regarding cervical treatment.
We were presented with various cases, including MRI images, and underwent an interview designed to assess my clinical and academic competence in a real-world setting. This covered determining treatment eligibility, identifying specific issues for each patient, and discussing post-treatment challenges and solutions. It was an intensive interview that would have been impossible to pass without my eight years of experience performing Lumbar Discseel® Procedures.
There was also a test to verify not just my knowledge, but my mastery of the actual treatment techniques. Thanks to my extensive prior clinical experience, this part went quite smoothly.
The sessions started at 9:00 AM and didn't finish until 6:00 PM. I am absolutely exhausted. In my case, I was also watching Game 5 of the Hanshin Tigers vs. SoftBank Hawks online starting at 4:00 AM North American time, so I almost lost consciousness halfway through the day. Tomorrow is the final clinical interview. If I pass, I will officially be issued my license to perform Cervical Discseel® Procedures. Time to give it my all.
Dining
Italian and Chinese food are great and all, but I started craving Japanese rice, so I went to a sushi restaurant with the staff. It turned out to be the kind of place where tuna starts at 1,500 yen per piece and egg starts at 1,000 yen. Since a Japanese chef was preparing it, the rice was perfect and the Edomae-style flavors were just as delicious as back home, but... man, the prices are wild. At this rate, my training budget is going to run completely dry!
About the Author
Clinic Director Dr. Yasuyuki Nonaka
NLC Nonaka Lumbago Clinic offers medical treatment with a combined focus on the spinal conditions that cause low back pain. By introducing advanced treatments from all over the world, we are able to expand the treatment options for patients suffering from back and other spinal diseases, and propose treatment solutions tailored to their symptoms and conditions. Staying focused on diseases such as disc degeneration and disc herniation that cause spinal canal stenosis and back pain, we provide treatments that are less burdensome for elderly patients, for patients considering reoperation, and those seeking to return to society in a short period of time.
Achievement：8,011 Cases
Jun. 2018 - Feb. 2025