Meet Laser Spine Institute CEO, Bill Horne

As the Chief Executive Officer of Laser Spine Institute, I have the fortunate opportunity to help people get their lives back every day after experiencing years of chronic neck and back pain. As a former patient of our renowned Chief Surgeon Dr. James St. Louis, I can certainly sympathize with anyone suffering from the excruciating symptoms of conditions like spinal stenosis and pinched nerves. No one can possibly understand the pain and suffering unless they have experienced it.

"Going 'Above and Beyond' means treating every patient like they are a personal family member while we help them achieve their goal of getting their life back."

As an athletic youth, I put a lot of stress on my neck and shoulders through years of high school and college football. For the next twenty years, I went through constant conservative treatments such as massage, injections, physical therapy and chiropractic care just to help me cope. Then, after overexerting myself in physical exercise five years ago, I began experiencing stabbing pains in my neck, with burning spasms in my shoulders and numbness in my hands and fingers, and soon had difficulty sitting at my desk to work and started to take Percocet frequently.

With no solution to my worsening condition, I began a nationwide search for the best spinal surgeon around. Every doctor I saw wanted to perform a radical open neck procedure. After exhausting my efforts, I elected to have surgery with a neurosurgeon in Miami, FL, who was planning a 3-level anterior cervical fusion with a six inch incision through the front of my neck and the insertion of a plate and six screws for stability. Three days before this terrifying appointment, I had the amazing fortune of being introduced to Dr. James St. Louis, a great family man and an incredible spine surgeon, who was having great success with a new technique called minimally invasive endoscopic spinal surgery. Through an incision of less than a half inch, my neck muscles would only be dilated and not cut, and my bulging disc and pinched nerves could be corrected without any hardware or foreign objects. Through this education, I changed my mind and had surgery with Dr. St. Louis.

The surgery lasted one hour with absolutely no pain; I enjoyed a mile walk later that afternoon, went back to work the next day and played a successful round of golf one week later. Dr. St. Louis gave me my life back and I feel I have an obligation to tell everyone about our unbelievable doctors this cutting edge technology with our premier services and hospitality.