Provider's Comeback Stories

See how patients under Dr. Andrew Clavenna's care have overcome injury, returned to what they love, and reclaimed their lives. These comeback stories highlight the impact of expert orthopaedic care, told directly by the people who experienced it.

  • Larry

    Spuinal Fusion Returned my Mobility

    Spinal Fusion

    I have always been active, and my wife and I travel often. I started having severe problems with sciatica in 2012, diagnosed as impingement of my sciatic nerve in 2 places, causing severe muscle-…

  • Pamela

    Cervical Fusion

    It was just a normal flight home, while waiting to board the plane, when our heavy roll-aboard luggage became top-heavy and began to fall. Innocently, I reached down to catch the fully extended…

  • Pamela

    Cervical Fusion

    It was just a normal flight home, while waiting to board the plane, when our heavy roll-aboard luggage became top-heavy and began to fall. Innocently, I reached down to catch the fully extended…

  • Betsy

    Cervical fusion at c5-c6

    I have seen Dr. Clavenna for a number of years and his expertise has kept me enjoying riding my horse. I was experiencing cervical pain for several years and Dr. Clavenna always recommended…

  • JOAN

    Fixed a bad hip that was done wrong by a doctor in a different city

    This is the nicest doctors office I have ever been to. Everybody is very polite nice very efficient and my doctor was one of the best. I would never go anywhere else and I tell everybody I know to…

  • Jeffery

    7hr back surgery lower back

    It was was the best experience and tell everyone about my surgery. And has not had anymore trouble

  • Betsy

    Fusion at C5-C6

    Dr Clavenna performed a fusion at C5-C6 in February 2025. The surgery was successful and the right arm pain I was having was so much better after the surgery and has continued to improve. I am…