08/08/2025
In February 2023, Susan Jordan of Beverly Hills, CA, had a procedure for a fractured T7 disc in her spine. “I had and was coughing continuously and as a result had severe upper which I later learned was a fracture.” A few days after the procedure, during which a special kind of bone cement is injected into a fractured vertebra, the subsided. A week later the pain returned, and an X-ray revealed an additional fracture of the vertebra below T7 caused by the cement. “I was in pain 24/7 at a level 10 – nothing even touched it. My clothes started fitting differently and I felt like my whole back was collapsing.”
Jordan had consultations with two orthopedic surgeons, and both rejected her case due to its complexities. One told her there was nothing he could do for her and the second initially expressed optimism. “He then realized that it would entail a major procedure."
During her third attempt to get help for her back, Jordan found Dr. Neel Anand and his team. "When I went to Dr. Anand, he did a full x-ray, and knew immediately what I needed to have done, and he had confidence he could do it – WHICH HE DID," she says.
Over the course of two surgeries performed in June 2024, at the age of 77, Jordan received a lateral lumbar interbody fusion of the five vertebrae on her lumbar spine, an anterior lumbar interbody fusion that fused the L5 and S1 vertebrae together, as well as a microdiscectomy to help relieve compressed nerves in her back. Additionally, Dr. Anand performed a T8 osteotomy to help correct her scoliosis.
Now 9 months post-surgery, Jordan says she is walking, driving and working without back pain. “The surgery Dr. Anand did was really miraculous. My friends find it hard to believe it if they look at my before and after pictures of my posture and height. I’m just so grateful and thankful to Dr. Anand because I feel like he saved my life.”
