Dr. Danielle Aufiero is a physiatrist and sports medicine specialist at OrthoHealing in West Los Angeles. First of all, she explains what a physiatrist is and what types of non-surgical treatments they offer to relieve pain and restore function. She specializes in performing regenerative treatments such as prolotherapy, platelet rich plasma (PRP) therapy, ozone therapy, and bone marrow stem cell therapy. She breaks down each one and explains the pros and cons of each.

Dr. Gary Polan pioneered Vision Sports Therapy from the beginning of his career when he was in optometry school and had a major league baseball pitcher sleeping on his couch. He helps pro baseball players see the fast-moving ball twice before swinging instead of once or not at all as most players do. He helps professional tennis players and Olympic track and field athletes with depth perception to improve their performance. He’s quick to point out that vision occurs in...

Dr. Bert Mandelbaum is known as one of the top knee doctors of L.A. He has also been the U.S. national soccer team physician for six Olympic Games and seven World Cup tournaments. He discusses his vision for creating the biggest sports medicine center in the world, emphasizing prevention of injuries and finding performance solutions to return athletes to their sport. He talks about being involved in exciting research projects that repair and are even regenerating cartilage.

Dr. Gantwerker explains that the training of a neurosurgeon is very long, ten years. He does surgeries on the lumbar, thoracic, cervical spine as well as the brain, including a surgery for epilepsy that has a high success rate. What he really loves is explaining arthritis of the spine to his patients, and giving patients confidence when they’re scared by something like a blood clot in the brain, which he says is a straight-forward procedure.

Since childhood in India, Dr. Venuturupalli envisioned the dream of finding a cure for auto-immune and inflammatory diseases. He knew he’d have to come to the United States to have the resources to do that. Opening Attune Health in Beverly Hills was a huge step, creating all needed services under one large roof for his patients. He is also involved in over 100 clinical trials with researchers from around the world.

Dr. Rasouli says 90% of all patients with back pain don’t need surgery. By trying conservative treatments first, most patients will recover. For the 10% that need surgery, Dr. Rasouli pioneered doing cervical and lumbar artificial disc replacements in an outpatient setting. That means most of his cervical and lumbar disc replacements allow patients to go home the same day as surgery. These are rapid recovery spine surgeries.

Dr. Gantwerker explains that the training of a neurosurgeon is very long, ten years. He does surgeries on the lumbar, thoracic, cervical spine as well as the brain, including a surgery for epilepsy that has a high success rate. What he really loves is explaining arthritis of the spine to his patients, and giving patients confidence when they’re scared by something like a blood clot in the brain, which he says is a straight-forward procedure.

Dr. Rasouli says 90% of all patients with back pain don’t need surgery. By trying conservative treatments first, most patients will recover. For the 10% that need surgery, Dr. Rasouli pioneered doing cervical and lumbar artificial disc replacements in an outpatient setting. That means most of his cervical and lumbar disc replacements allow patients to go home the same day as surgery. These are rapid recovery spine surgeries.