Back Pain Relief Without Surgery: Regenerative Medicine Explained

Functional medicine and regenerative approaches are changing how we treat chronic back and neck pain — offering real relief without scalpels or opioids. Dr. Christopher Lauria, D.C., walks through how spinal decompression, Class IV laser, PRP, and stem cell therapies work, why some patients feel better after a single session, and what realistic recovery looks like over the following months.

This episode keeps it practical and evidence-minded: learn how decompression creates a pressure gradient that can reduce a bulging disc, which non-surgical options are worth exploring for lasting relief, and the common pitfalls to avoid when pursuing regenerative care. If you want root-cause solutions that preserve motion and reduce reliance on meds, this episode is for you.

CHAPTERS:
0:00 Introduction and Dr. Lauria's Approach
5:30 How Spinal Decompression Works
12:00 Who Qualifies and Who Doesn't
19:00 Class IV Laser Therapy
24:00 PRP and Stem Cell Options
29:00 Real Patient Timelines
32:30 Action Steps for Chronic Back Pain

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The Body’s Self-Healing Design

SPEAKER_00 0:00

The human body's amazing. It's a self-healing, self-regulating organism. Uh, if you think about it, a sperm and an egg came together and formed you and me, um, you know, in just a nine-month period. But what we're learning these days is that the body can heal itself. And I think we've been in a I don't call it a crisis, but a mindset that our body is a machine, and we're gonna try to fix that machine by giving it things, by uh operating on it, and it's doing surgery on it. But now the mindset has changed. It's something I've been talking about for years. The body has the ability to heal itself. And with regenerative medicine with all these tremendous new things we're learning, the stem cells and all that, all this stuff's coming to fruition. So my passion and purpose is to educate people on that.

SPEAKER_01 0:52

Hi, friends, welcome to the New Normal Big Life podcast. We bring you natural and integrative health information and stories about nature that we hope will inspire you to get outside an adventure, along with a step-by-step plan to help you practice what you've learned, create your own new normal, and live the biggest life you can dream. I'm your host, Antonette Lee, the Wellness Warrior. Let's get into today's topic. Dr. Laurier, welcome to New Normal Big Life. Why don't you tell us who you are, what you do, and the one big idea you want to leave everyone with as you talk about your expertise today.

SPEAKER_00 1:28

Thank you very much for inviting me. I'm excited to be here and share today. You know, it's it's really my purpose and what's driven me that the human body is amazing. It's a self-healing, self-regulating organism. If you think about it, a sperm and an egg came together and formed you and me, you know, in just a nine-month period. Well, what we're learning these days is that the body can heal itself. And I think we've been in a, I don't know if we call it a crisis, but a mindset that our body is a machine. And we're going to try to fix that machine by giving it things, by operating on it and doing surgery on it. But now the mindset has changed, and something I've been talking about with years. The body has the ability to heal itself. And with regenerative medicine, we're all these tremendous new things we're learning with stem cells and all that, all this stuff's coming to fruition. So, so my passion and purpose is to educate people on that and help make this change.

SPEAKER_01 2:26

I'm very excited for this conversation.

Guest Origins And Holistic Legacy

SPEAKER_01 2:28

And, you know, you come from a legacy of this type of healing work. Tell us about how you grew up in your father's practice watching him work.

SPEAKER_00 2:38

Yeah, my dad was a chiropractor for 47 years. He graduated chiropractic school in 1950. So, you know, in my early childhood, I literally would go into his office and hide under his desk as he was talking to patients and things like that. We were raised in a holistic household. There wasn't, you know, a medicine cabinet, there wasn't anything like that. So this is something that's been ingrained in me. You know, I'm now 59-year-old, you know, nine years old. So it's been ingrained in me for my whole life too. But it was it was amazing to see what he did with people and what when he talked about this stuff back then, you didn't talk about it back then. It was these types of healthcare practices and the things that we can freely talk about today weren't able to really be talked about back then.

SPEAKER_01 3:26

That's very interesting because I too grew up in a holistic first household. We had great health insurance through my dad's work, but my mom always relied on natural methods first. And if that didn't work, then she took us to the doctor. On a side note, I'm gonna preface my next question with this. We have a connection. I used to be an IT manager at UNC Chapel Hill, where you had a baseball scholarship. And so I know that sports was a big part of your life. I don't know if it still is, but before pursuing your doctorate, you were in this athletic program. Did that impact what kind of practice you have today at all?

Sports Injuries That Shaped Practice

SPEAKER_00 4:12

Uh yeah, I mean, you know, I was injured my junior sophomore year at UNC. And it was, you know, when you're on scholarship in a division one program, you're kind of like their property. So I was driven through the medical model with that, with you know, it's taking Motrin and doing all these things. And I don't know, it went for months, and finally my dad said, Oh, you know, hold on, we're gonna call a guy down there who's a chiropractor. And, you know, I kind of couldn't tell anybody, but I started seeing him and I was back on the field a short time later. So that I always thought I wanted to get into this, but that kind of really drove drove it forward once I saw that doctor down there and you know saw the saw the power of it for an athletic type thing.

SPEAKER_01 4:59

I really respect a doctor that has some experience that's similar to his patients. I know that when I needed my shoulder repaired, I told my doctor that I needed him to repair my shoulder so that I could continue whitewater kayaking in the mountains of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. And he said, So let me get this straight. You want me, you are like a major minor league baseball player, and you want me to restore your shoulder to minor league competition with the ability to go into the majors. And I said, You've got it. That's exactly it. And then he told me, Well, you came to the right person because I'm also a whitewater kayaker, and he did restore my shoulder to it's like it's a brand new shoulder, and he did not replace my shoulder, he just replaced my tendons with artificial tendons, and I'm whitewater kayaking and bow hunting and all the things. So I really love that you have that experience of going from injury and seeing the benefit of the kind of work you're doing today.

SPEAKER_00 6:10

So at Rowan Disc Center, oh, sorry, I was gonna tell you real quick, and and nine years ago,

What Spinal Decompression Does

SPEAKER_00 6:15

I herniated two discs in my back. So, you know, I was posed, I couldn't even feel my left leg. And you know, I I went through all the things we might talk about today with spinal decompression, laser therapy, and nine years later I'm doing fine. So I'm able to give patients that that testimonial too, that literally I went through a lot of the things you're going through. So I treated myself.

SPEAKER_01 6:42

That's an incredibly powerful testimonial. So at Roanoke Dissenter, you specialize in non-surgical spinal decompression. What exactly is that?

SPEAKER_00 6:53

So decompression is a treatment for degenerative disc disease. So you have a cushioning in between your vertebrae, those discs can thin. Some people get diagnosed with bulging discs, some people get diagnosed with herniated discs. What decompression is, and a lot of people think of traction, the old days when you see on the movies that I have a guy laying in a hospital with weights coming off him, decompression is a cyclical, what we call pumping of the disc. And it sets up a pressure gradient that will suck, literally suck fluid and oxygen back into the disc and suck bulges, herniations back into the normal space again. So this is a treatment for the cause of the problem to try to heal the disc problem. And when that happens, obviously the irritation, the pressure on the nerves it causes goes away.

SPEAKER_01 7:40

So one of our dedicated listeners and wellness warriors is named Joe, and he submitted some questions around this topic today. And Joe, thank you for being such a faithful listener in supporting this show. We're dedicating this episode to you. I was wondering for conditions like herniated disc and degenerative disc disease, sciatica, and even in a situation like mine where I broke my back and I have arthritis from my neck to my coccycan sacrum or tailbone. What kinds of therapies work for conditions like these?

SPEAKER_00 8:18

And what makes

Who Is And Isn’t A Candidate

SPEAKER_00 8:20

the type of treatment that you're giving a game changer? So first of all, Joe, not everybody's a candidate for spinal decompression treatment. So, you know, that's why we do a detailed evaluation. We review MRIs, CT scans, and those types of things. So you mentioned the word arthritis. If there's arthritic spurring due to your injuries that are pinching a nerve, decompression can't help you because, you know, we can't pull bone off a nerve. The second thing, you've had fractures in your spine, depending on how those fractures at heal heals, depends on whether or not it's something that it can help you. So not everybody's a good candidate, but we have other therapies like class four laser therapy, something called vaspneumatic therapy, PRP injections, stem cells, those type of things can help someone in that type of case. If you have those things like you're talking about, it's it's a different protocol for those types of things. We're just trying to give you relief because some of those things are irreversible. There's some people we can tell them we can totally correct things, but depending on that exam and what your case looks like would allow me to develop a prognosis of what we could do for a person with your type of case.

SPEAKER_01 9:35

Well, so for in Joe's case, what are some of the signs that he might make a good candidate? What would you look for in a person who makes a good candidate?

SPEAKER_00 9:45

Well, first let me tell you the immediate disqualifiers are if you have had surgery and there's metal in your spine. If there's acute fractures, you're not a candidate. Again, severe arthritic spurring, you're not a candidate. And this is for spinal decompression therapy. If you don't have full use of your arms and legs, you're not a candidate. If you've had cancer in your spine, you're not a candidate. So those are the first five things we talk to people about. Then the exam, we're looking, you know, do you still have reflexes? Do you have muscle strength in your lower extremity? If there's a drop foot or something like that, those things will disqualify you also. And again, the review of MRI, if there's degenerative bulging discs, then those are things we can work with. So again, it's it's tough for me to answer something like Joe's question without examining them, without reviewing MRIs and those type of things. We just don't put everybody

Protocols, Timelines, And Relief

SPEAKER_00 10:41

on the machine or the machines that I have. It's something that a detailed exam, and I tell everybody the key is getting a correct diagnosis. What exactly is causing your symptoms right now, Joe, is the truth is the key question. And that's something that a detailed exam will help us with.

SPEAKER_01 11:01

If a person goes through spinal decompression, what's the recovery like? How long does the procedure generally take? And what's the recovery like?

SPEAKER_00 11:11

So again, that the the treatment protocol and the amount of time is dependent on the examination, all the things I just talked about, the review of barmeri. Are we working on one disc? Are we working on two? Are we working on a bulge or herdiation? So treatment protocols can run anywhere from 20 to 30 treatments. That's usually done at least two, sometimes three days a week. Now, that gets you through the program, but one of the things people got to understand is there's healing time after that. I think part of our mindset in the world is we want a quick fix and we want to be back to what we're doing right away. But, you know, post-treatment with exercises and stretching and just healing time after that can run up to four to six months until you're fully recovered from the treatment and from the changes that have gone on during the treatment.

SPEAKER_01 12:05

Would a patient expect any amount of pain relief immediately after the first treatment, the treatment?

SPEAKER_00 12:15

Yeah, I tell people to point to the third or fourth visit. So some people get off that machine and say, Oh, I've needed that all along. Now, it's not just decompression treatment. There's other parts of the program we do to help people recover. We'll do post-treatment electric muscle stimulation, uh, we'll do ice right after treatment. And then the laser therapy, which I'm sure we'll talk about in a minute, is a great part in helping with that pain relief too. Then there's things we have people do at home to help them recover from the treatment, too. It's not a painless treatment. This isn't laying on a table and gritting your teeth. It's a very light force technique designed to help the body to make the changes and heal on its own.

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Adventure Story: Resilience On Ice

SPEAKER_01 13:44

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Class IV Laser And Joints

SPEAKER_01 16:16

Now, back to our show, that you're allowing the body to heal itself. This is so wonderful to hear because so often patients go in and their answer is let's cut something out. And a lot of people don't want that anymore. So beyond the spine, you also treat pain with joint pain with integrative methods. Can you tell us about class four laser therapy?

SPEAKER_00 16:42

So, what class four laser is, and this can work on any joint in the body, is laser is sent into the tissue. It causes something called red blood cells to rush to the area. Red blood cells are what heals things in our body. If you cut your hand with a knife, red blood cells are gonna rush to that area to help it heal. If a bone breaks, red blood cells are what allow that bone to heal. So by stimulating that joint with laser, red blood cells are gonna rush to that area and they're gonna promote pain relief, decrease inflammation. But in certain cases, again, not everybody, it can stimulate cells within the joint to rebuild or re-ubricate the generated joint space.

SPEAKER_01 17:23

So we've talked about regenerative medicine, and I'm not sure everyone knows

What Regenerative Medicine Means

SPEAKER_01 17:28

what that means. Could you just kind of give us an overview of what exactly regenerative medicine means?

SPEAKER_00 17:35

Yeah, so regenerative medicine is basically use utilizing the body to help heal itself. And you know, decompression does that, class four laser does that, PRP shots, which is plasma-rich protein, which we use a lot, where they extract your blood, shoot the plasma back into a joint space. That's a form of regenerative medicine. And then now, you know, the latest and greatest is the stem cells, where they're either pulling stem cells from your body or from embryotic tissue, and we're reinjecting stem cells into that area to help promote healing too. So it's you utilizing the body's natural means to help promote healing and enhance healing on its own.

SPEAKER_01 18:21

What excites you most about this regenerative regenerative medicine trend?

SPEAKER_00 18:26

Well, again, the mindset's changing. You know, 10, 15 years ago, everybody was just shooting for, you know, what can I do to relieve my symptoms and you know, living on over-the-counter medicines and drugs and shots and those types of things. This is stuff I've talked about for 30 years, but in the last 10 years, 15 years, I'm seeing the society change. I'm seeing the research behind it, and people are jumping into utilizing these type of things much more

Costs, Insurance, And Access

SPEAKER_00 18:57

than they were 25, 30 years ago.

SPEAKER_01 18:59

Wow, that's great. How can a person pay for these procedures? Are they often covered by insurance or is there some other method?

SPEAKER_00 19:08

Well, unfortunately, many of them are not. Insurance, I like to say, is crisis care or crisis insurance, meaning if you have a crisis, that's what your insurance is there for. So all these regenerative medicines, they are cash-based type things now. Now, some of the therapies we surround our treatments with can be paid for by insurance, electric stem, those type of things, vasoneumatic therapy, those type of things. But the decompression, the laser, PRP, stem cells, those are going to be an out-of-pocket expense for people because insurance doesn't pay for regenerative medicine or those type of things. They'd pay $30,000, $40,000, $50,000 for you to go get a spinal surgery, but they won't pay for this stuff.

SPEAKER_01 19:54

Are there any movements afoot to try and get the insurance companies to get on board with viewing regenerative treatments the same as they would surgical procedures?

SPEAKER_00 20:06

Yeah, I mean, it's it's there is a lot of movement

The Future Of Non-Surgical Care

SPEAKER_00 20:09

out there. Unfortunately, there's large lobbies against that movement for people who don't want them to use this type of treatment, right? Stem cells are used during surgery or surgeries, you know, uh medical surgeries and knee replacements, all kinds of surgeries. They're using stem cells now as part of that healing for that. So we're we're seeing that the whole thing change some, but I don't know if it'll ever come to fruition with the current healthcare model in this country.

SPEAKER_01 20:38

Looking ahead, what do you see for the future of non-surgical pain management?

SPEAKER_00 20:44

I mean, you know, again, being in it for 30 years, I was amazed 20 years ago when I started spinal decompression therapy. And then, you know, 10 years ago, you know, laser came about. You're just in amazement. And then, you know, my I found out about PRP because my son got a shot in his elbow. He was a pitcher, and that was like incredible to me. And now stem cell research is just, you know, just another amazing thing. And I think as we grow and learn more about what the body does, because I don't I don't even think we've skimmed the surface of understanding the interaction of the brain, the nervous system, the immune system, and all that, and and what can happen. I

Home Therapies And Caution

SPEAKER_00 21:29

think the sky's the limit.

SPEAKER_01 21:31

Some patients are using at-home practices like phototherapy mats and patches, infrared therapy, red light therapy, and other wavelength therapy. Do you use any of those in your practice or do your patients use them at home?

SPEAKER_00 21:49

Yeah, I mean, we do with our peripheral neuropathy patients, you know, due to diabetic or chemotherapy radiation, we do have a home care program that was built out. By a company that I'm involved with. So put together the way it's put together, it's very beneficial. It helps those neuropathy patients. I would just use caution when you're doing those things. Again, part of our problem in this country is that we're looking for a quick fix and something to give us instantaneous relief. I tell all my patients the number one thing is to find out the cause of the problem first. So you can't use these home therapies just as a band-aid because some of them will help. A lot of times they won't help. And then you got to understand the research behind all these things is their research behind helping them. So that's part of the problem or part of the problem with people is they see these things online, they buy them, and they don't even really understand what's causing their problem. So there's a lot of trouble out there with that.

SPEAKER_01 22:55

So if a patient is thinking about some at-home therapies, is your best advice to talk to their practitioner first before going out and making a purchase? Or what advice would you give them?

SPEAKER_00 23:08

Yeah, I mean, with any practitioner, number one, you got to find out what the cause of your problem

Pain As Data, Not Destiny

SPEAKER_00 23:14

is. Okay, not just the symptoms, what's ultimately causing the problem. That's why I spend so much time with these people in the beginning to understand what's going on and one, determine if it can be treated with something uncanny. Or if not, I send them to where they need to go because there are people I can't help with these things. So yeah, understand what your symptoms are and find out what the cause of it is, and act to find the cause. We're we're stuck in this model of, oh, I'm hurting, but maybe it'll go away. It's not that bad. It only hurts when I do this. And that's why we get stuck in a symptom-based society. When your body's giving you a symptom or a sign, it's a signal that something's wrong. And you need to find out what that signal is. And if you go to your PCP, whoever it is you need to talk to, you need to find out the cause of the problem.

SPEAKER_01 24:06

That's really important information, Dr. Loria, because I like to remind people that when you have pain, that's a piece of information from your body to say that something's wrong. And when you just mask the pain without investigating the reason for it, like you were saying, identifying the root cause, you're taking away this great information that your body was trying to give you so that you could have used that information, you could use it to track down the root cause of your symptoms.

SPEAKER_00 24:42

Yeah, and you're not only you said taking it away, and a lot of times you're just you're just masking those symptoms, right? Right. And and what happens if you continue to do that, whatever the cause of the problem is continuing to fester and get worse and worse and worse to where it does become a crisis. So any kind of symptom, identify it, accept it, and get someone to figure out what it is.

Lifestyle, Movement, And Mindset

SPEAKER_01 25:04

One of the things that I think my healthcare team did wrong for many years after I broke my back and had a traumatic brain injury was they told me to rest. And of course, rest and recovery is important, but essentially they kept telling me go home, lay down, sit down, put your feet up. And over time, it made me have to use a walker, a service dog, and a full-time caregiver. So 20 medications later, all kinds of complications, I had to work to reverse the damage that allopathic care had caused in me. If I had known then what I know now, I would have worked on, well, not worked on, I would have maintained my already healthy lifestyle habits, which was a daily exercise program that included both strength training and yoga and Pilates, an at-home stretching routine, all of those things. My healthcare providers actually told me to stop doing them because you're making your problems worse, they said. And then I almost couldn't walk anymore without help. So I like to remind people of the importance of lifestyle changes. Do you have any lifestyle recommendations for people suffering with chronic pain?

SPEAKER_00 26:28

Yeah, no doubt. Well, first of all, not only what it did to you physically, but the mental-emotional aspect of what you went through with losing all that stuff is devastating. So yeah, I mean, we have people, again, you know, 90% of them can is to stay active, to walk, to work on positive mental, emotional things and stay active in your community and those type of things. Part of what we do, and and when you're in a degenerative chronic health condition, your muscles and your body will kind of guard you. So as we make these changes in a knee, in a back, in a shoulder, we have to kind of work with helping you to retrain the body

Recovery Through Community And Sport

SPEAKER_00 27:12

and the muscles to support that area properly again. So being active and and sticking to lifestyle things that bring positive energy to you is definitely, definitely part of what we do with the people. This is not something that we're telling people to sit at home. Motion brings health to the body, right? Increased blood flow, all those type of things. So you got to continue to stay active in those types of things for sure. And that's part of our program also with whatever we're treating.

SPEAKER_01 27:42

And wellness worries, I can tell you, when I stopped listening to that stay at home and stay in bed model, and I got outside and got active, I retrained my brain for things that require focus, like this conversation today with Archery. And then I retrained my body and re-strengthened it and re-entered my community through whitewater kayaking. I first started using a walker, a service dog, and a full-time caregiver sitting poolside, watching me learn how to kayak and heated pool. Three months later, I had ditched my walker. I was on moving water, kayaking with new friends, creating community, and I attribute a lot of that to my good health today. I'm not pain-free, but I have well-managed pain without medications, and I'm a sponsored adventure sports athlete.

SPEAKER_00 28:43

Yeah, and that's you know, again, a lot of people get stuck with the doom of a of a diagnosis, right? And and you got driven into that rut. And it it takes you or anybody saying, you know what, there's things out there, and I'm gonna commit to this and not sit in the bed, because a lot of people are doing that,

Finding Care And Getting Evaluated

SPEAKER_00 29:06

you know. But a good number of conditions, you know, can be helped with these type of things, and then you gotta have the positive mindset to turn around and become invested and take responsibility for what you're going through, not only in a treatment setting, but your mental health, emotional health, and those type of things too.

SPEAKER_01 29:27

Excellent advice. Dr. Loria, how can patients in your area find you and find out what options you might have to offer them?

SPEAKER_00 29:34

Yeah, so you know, the biggest thing obviously is the website, and that's www.roanokedisccenter.com. I have a number of Facebook pages, Roanoke Back and Spine, Roanoke Knee Solutions. I got a page foran oak peripheral neuropathy where I'm constantly posting things on there. I do weekly uh not podcasts, but uh uh Facebook Lives where I'm on those educating people. I respond to any questions that are posted on any of those sites. And then we offer people to come into the office. And it's, you know, even for questions and those types of things, they can email me if they got questions, concerns, want, want to run a treatment by that that I might have heard of. You know, if I can answer it, I'll answer questions like that too.

SPEAKER_01 30:20

Oh, that's brilliant. I I really like that. What more do you want to leave listeners with?

SPEAKER_00 30:26

You know, again, it's it's your res your health is your responsibility. Okay, and and we tend to,

Ownership, Options, And Next Steps

SPEAKER_00 30:34

and people even do it with me, you know, put me on a pedestal or any doctor, and whatever he says I'm gonna do. Whatever you're diagnosed with, there's plenty of research out there. Again, know your sources when you're looking at research, but begin to educate yourselves not only on if a doctor recommends a surgery, but what are my alternatives? And then, you know, put them all together and run them by someone and try to make the best decision for you that's gonna allow your body to heal and recover. Because typically it's not surgery, it's not medicine. Listen to what your symptoms are, find out the cause, and figure out your treatment options.

SPEAKER_01 31:15

Dr. Loria, this has been so insightful. Thank you for joining us today.

SPEAKER_00 31:20

Thank you. It's been great. I enjoyed it too.

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Medical Disclaimer And Close

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The information in this podcast is not medical advice and should not be treated as such.

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Always consult your physician or healthcare professional before pursuing any health related procedure or activity.