Tiger Woods is at the top of his game again after miracle back surgery saved him from screaming pain. The once dominant golfer copped the Tour Championship at Atlanta’s East Lake Golf Club in September for his first PGA victory since 2013. Even though he struggled weeks later at the Ryder Cup international matches, Tiger’s astounding comeback followed risky spinal surgery by Dr. Richard Guyer at the Texas Back Institute in April last year. Two of his vertebrae were fused and damaged disc material was removed, The National ENQUIRER learned from a source. “It was instant nerve relief. I haven’t felt this good in years,” Tiger wrote in his blog. Read on for details of Tiger’s astounding return, and click here for more celebrity comeback news….
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Dr. Gabe Mirkin, who has not treated Tiger, said, “His pain was caused by the bones squeezing a nerve between them.” Mirkin said the “surgeon made a cut through his belly, not his back” and “removed the soft spongy disc and replaced it with either metal or bone pieces to fuse the upper vertebral bone to the lower bone.”
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The result is “there was no disc to be squashed and the nerve no longer has an upper or lower bone pressing on it.” The operation saved Woods’ career, a source said, since “after three surgeries he had nearly given up and was close to throwing in the towel — until he heard about this doctor.”
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At the time, he was trying to escape his furious, golf club-wielding wife,
Elin Nordegren (left), who’d learned
he’d been cheating. Following that incident, dozens of gals claimed to have had sex with him, and Elin, mom of his two young kids, divorced him.
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Dr. Gabe Mirkin, who has not treated Tiger, said, “His pain was caused by the bones squeezing a nerve between them.” Mirkin said the “surgeon made a cut through his belly, not his back” and “removed the soft spongy disc and replaced it with either metal or bone pieces to fuse the upper vertebral bone to the lower bone.”
The result is “there was no disc to be squashed and the nerve no longer has an upper or lower bone pressing on it.” The operation saved Woods’ career, a source said, since “after three surgeries he had nearly given up and was close to throwing in the towel — until he heard about this doctor.”
At the time, he was trying to escape his furious, golf club-wielding wife,
Elin Nordegren (left), who’d learned
he’d been cheating. Following that incident, dozens of gals claimed to have had sex with him, and Elin, mom of his two young kids, divorced him.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Photo credit: Getty Images
