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New Cooper Green Welcomes Patients
By LaUra FreeMan
From cornerstone to completion in less than two years, the new Cooper Green Medical Center opened with a ribbon cutting November 20. A phased move,
department by department, has begun to allow a near-seamless transition through December with a few finishing touches as clinics settle into their new home. “We will be leading with urgent care and cancer treatment, then begin
moving the specialty clinics, as much as possible over weekends so they will be ready to see patients on Monday,” David Randall, CEO of Cooper Green Mercy Health Services Authority and Chief Strategy Officer for UAB Health System,
said. “It’s going to be exciting working in such a beautiful, well-designed facility. So much thought has gone into creating a space that will allow us to enhance quality and expand the services we offer (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3)
New Therapy Gets to the Root of Chronic Back Pain By steve spencer
The ReActiv8® leads are implanted into the nerves that innervate the multifidus.
If you’re reading this and you’re over 40, odds are you’ve had at least one experience with back pain. In fact, back pain is the second most common reason people visit the doctor, behind only head colds. Enter Bradley Goodman, MD. Goodman, who practices with OrthoAlabama Spine & Sports, has always been an early adopter of medical technology. He was the first doctor in the United States to offer Superion, a minimally invasive
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implant to treat spinal stenosis. He was also the first in the country to perform the Intracept procedure to treat vertebrogenic pain. So naturally when ReActiv8® came on the scene, Goodman was excited. “The beauty of ReActiv8® is that it’s designed to rehabilitate, not just alleviate pain,” he said. “Over the years, I’ve joked that when dealing with pain, I was a glorified hairdresser. I didn’t get rid of the gray hair. I was just putting color in
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