TerryLicia

Review of Advanced Pain Centers of Alask...

Dr. Stinson was super helpful to me when I needed ...

Dr. Stinson was super helpful to me when I needed a second opinion about my current medications. He was forthright, honest and paid meticulous attention to detail. I was very appreciative! Now, my son is having some terrible problems with scoliosis. There's been a mixup in some paperwork but today we discovered the problem, so my son will be able to see Dr. Stinson very soon. I'm sure he will be able to help my son figure out the best way to handle this on-going, never-ending pain that comes with scoliosis.

Some of the surgeons and doctors we've seen over the last six years, from Alaska to Texas to New York and then back to Alaska, have believed that patients all fall within the exact same parameters or guidelines for scoliosis pain, but that's ridiculous! Those are GUIDELINES, they are NOT specific to individual patients! Human beings are not all the same - not structurally, not biologically, not in anyway except that we are all humans! We feel pain differently, we feel love differently - even if the disease is the same, and even if the object of our affections is the same -- WE are DIFFERENT!

Dr. Stinson knows this, and he treats people as individuals - not "people with scoliosis don't hurt with just that little bit of curvature." One doctor actually said that! We just walked out. One man's 10 degrees is another man's 20 degrees when it comes to how it affects them! Each person reacts differently, each responds differently and that variance cannot truly be measured; it depends on a good physician to ferret out those differences and get to the ONE patient's needs so he can best help. Dr. Stinson does that, and he does it very, very well.