Dr. Ross N. Brudenell This is Me

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1. 1. www.endyourpain.org

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   Published on: 7/10/2007   Last Visited: 7/10/2007

   "Our view is that it's virtually unknown;" said Ross Brudenell, M.D., President of the National VAX-D Association, based in Anchorage, Alaska. "Only now is the traditional orthopedic community starting to pay some attention to the efficacy of this treatment."
   
   Brudenell said VAX-D still faces two credibility problems.
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   Brudenell says the simplest back operation costs more than $32,000, while VAX-D costs $3,500 - $5,500 for treatments over four to five weeks.
   
   He adds that VAX-D patients' conditions are comparable to those that undergo back surgery. Those undergoing surgery will be out of work four to six weeks without active intervention by Workers' Compensation, but many VAX-D patients return to work before their treatment has ended. "The problem is they don't feel debilitated and feel too cocky," Brudenell said.
   
   Brudenell said the Louisiana Workers' Compensation Board has recently accepted VAX-D at full price. "We're getting some favorable indication that in our region at least, the federal government will accept it, too," he said.
   
   Know the Code
   
   Medicare accepted VAX-D for a year but stopped because it does not have a code that comes close to describing the treatment. "Until we have a code that reliably and realistically reflects the treatment in this modality, we face an uphill battle," he said, adding the association has retained a consultant to help establish a code.
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   "The efficacy of this treatment is well-known enough now that it certainly deserves a place in the offerings that any plan gives to its subscribers, particularly because of the relative cost of treating disc disease surgically," said Brudenell.

2. 2. Vertebral Axial Decompression (VAX-D) - The Non Surgical Solution to Low Back Pain - VAX-D Physicians and Patients - VAX-D Physicians

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   Published on: 9/8/2006   Last Visited: 12/2/2007

   It showed an average of 74.7% improvement with vertebral axial decompression across all patients (Clinical outcome of 189 patients treated with Vertebral Axial Decompression for herniated or degenerated discs or facet syndrome: Brudenell, R. MD, Ratliff K. MS, PT 1999)
   
   Dr. Ross Brudenell is an orthopedic surgeon practicing in Anchorage Alaska. Dr. Brudenell is a Diplomat, American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and a Fellow American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Dr. Brudenell is the medical director for the Back Pain Center of Alaska. and has more than 25 years experience as an orthopaedic surgeon.

3. 3. Press: Gimme Shelter

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   Published on: 1/2/2003   Last Visited: 1/3/2003

   Ross Brudenell and Jacqueline Robinson
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   Jobs: Brudenell is a retired orthopedic surgeon.
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   Brudenell: For me, a house doesn't have to be just a place you sleep and eat in. I wanted a place that was an expression of what housing can be as a piece of folk art, a home with some ghosts and history behind it… It was a matter of finding a house that fit that definition and could be extracted from one coastal frontier and reincorporated in another coastal frontier.
   
   How old is the house?
   
   Brudenell: Originally, the lady who sold me the structure thought it was from the last part of what's called the first period of American housing. The first period starts from the year 1625 and runs through about 1680. Some of the structural members of this house are characteristic of the latter part of the first period.
   
   Where did you find the house?
   
   Brudenell: I found a person first. I was living in Colorado at the time and I found a guy who had actually moved a house from Connecticut to Colorado. I was kind of dumbfounded by the idea… He'd made contact with a woman who called herself the greatest house recylcer in the world. She had a passion for making sure old houses just didn't get bulldozed over. I'd been carting around this collection of antique furniture and finally decided I wanted an appropriate setting for it.
   
   I contacted the woman and she had a small inventory of houses. This house was in Massachusetts, in a little village called Plympton, near Plymouth. The family had owned it for about one hundred and ten years… A demolition crew took it down and it was stored for about eight or nine years. We took a look at it and it was very attractive. So we bought it and started to work on it.
   
   When did you bring it up here?
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   Brudenell: I bought the house in 1980. We took a forty-five foot van, loaded it up and hauled it… to Alaska. We moved into it in the fall of 1982.
   
   You moved it all in one trip?
   
   Brudenell: Yeah. The van was sixteen thousand pounds overweight, so we had to get a special permit.
   
   Why did you choose this location?
   
   Brudenell: I'm a pilot. I knew I wanted to have easy access to a floatplane.
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   Brudenell: Washington had such stature that there was a whole generation of portrait painters who made their bread and butter by copying the really famous portraits of Washington. They could sell them as fast as they could paint them. This particular one probably came from about 1810 to 1820.
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   Brudenell: It is called a wool wheel. It's also from the colonial era. There was no mass production of anything, so if you weren't an urban family, you'd be making everything you wore.
   
   That's an impressive grandfather clock.
   
   Brudenell: The clock was made by one of the first two or three clockmakers in the thirteen colonies, a guy by the name of Peter Stretch.
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   (Ross and Jacqueline show their bedroom)
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   Brudenell: The houses a couple hundred years ago never had central heat. You had to put a curtain around your bed to keep the drafts away. People really did believe that drafts caused disease. If you prevented the drafts from your sleep, it was believed you were likely to stay healthier. It was also a privacy matter. Families were big. You may have had eighteen people living in a house.