My name is Glynn Rutter and I am aged 51. I am married with two grown up daughters and one son aged 3½. I live in Chesterfield, Derbyshire.

I have suffered from chronic back pain for over 30 years after falling off a ladder in an accident at work in 1976.

Although my pain was temporarily reduced following an operation shortly after this fall, it provided only temporary relief and by Spring 1978 my back pain was sometimes so bad that I would have to get up an hour earlier each morning to do stretching exercises to give me the flexibility to perform basic daily tasks like putting on my socks.

During this time I was often not able to get in and out of my car due to the acuteness of the pain. I was given pain-killing injections into my spine, but this only gave temporary relief.

Despite being seen by numerous Consultants over the years I was never admitted for further surgery and instead underwent numerous visits to physiotherapists. I was also prescribed countless pain relieving drugs, which provided at best only temporary relief from the pain. I suffered from this pain to a greater or lesser extent for the next 28 years.

I went for an MRI scan at the Chesterfield Royal Hospital (NHS) in August 2005. The MRI scan showed clearly that the bottom two disks in my spine had degenerated and I had two tears. However a consultant there wrote to my GP saying that unless I developed more neurological problems he would not admit me for surgery. Instead he recommended a programme of pain management drugs.

Subsequent visits to the doctors only resulted in me being prescribed with further painkillers. I was very depressed about my predicament. I believed that because I could walk unaided into the surgery that they didn’t believe I had any difficulties.

In November 2005 the pain from my back had become particularly debilitating and I was cautious to even pick up my newly born son, Ben. The local NHS trust still thought that the best course of treatment available to me was an on-going programme of pain management drugs.

I spent a lot of money on acupuncture. To work a full day was getting increasingly difficult. By the end of the day my legs were like lead weights.

A few months after this I read a newspaper article about Mr. Krishna and the improvements he had brought to the quality of life of a number of people suffering from back pain similar to my own. After spending some time deciding on the best course of action in November 2006 I travelled 120 miles to see Mr. Krishna, and within 15 minutes he told me that he could fix my back problem. Mr. Krishna requested that I undergo another MRI scan, which confirmed that my bottom two discs had degenerated.

Within 10 days of my first consultation with Mr. Krishna he carried out a posterior lumbar interbody fusion operation on me. What this meant was that he removed the failed discs in my spine and replaced them with a titanium cage packed with bone fragments.
I was up at 9am the next morning walking around the hospital with the aid of the physiotherapist. I was only in the Nuffield for four days and was delighted with the result of the operation.

My life has been transformed by the procedure. I can pick up my son Ben, I am not restricted at work and am even doing some minor sports and exercise which I have not been able to do for years and years.

I just can’t believe that after all these years I was able to find a consultant who could rid me of the pain I’ve been suffering from for so long. Anyone going through something similar should go and see Mr. Krishna as he’s proven there is a solution out there for this type of spinal problem.

If I hadn’t gone to see Mr. Krishna I would probably have been condemned to a lifetime of chronic back pain. Now I can look forward to being able to do all the normal things in life that I’ve been restricted to doing for so long.