March 7, 2007
Pain Relief Center of Austin
1406 Camp Craft Road
Suite 108
Austin, Texas 78746
Dr. Jon Group
Throughout the years I have managed to injure myself many times. In 1981 I was training to be an
Airline Steward, during the training I fell from an airplane and dislocated my elbow; surgery had to
be performed on 2 different occasions. As I was recovering from that I slipped on some steps and
injured my back in 1983. Sometime in late 1991 I tripped on some wires laid next to a narrow
doorway and suffer a major whiplash. In 2004 I was rear-ended by a driver at a high rate of speed
and suffered a severe whiplash that left me with 2 herniated disks in my lower back and 3 herniated
and 3 collapsed disks in my upper back. It was difficult to swallow for several days after the
accident because my jaw had been injured as well.
After the car accident life just wasn’t the same. My back hurt all the time; lower back, middle back
and neck. Basically from the time I woke up until I went to sleep everyday I was in pain. If it was a
good day and my lower back didn’t hurt; my neck, elbow or my right leg did.
One day I was reading the paper and noticed a small ad from Pain Relief Center of Austin. Dr. Jon
Group was opening a new office using a machine the DRX that de-compressed the spine. I was a
little skeptical but I had been seeing Chiropractor for many years and although he made life
bearable; in all the years I had seen him he couldn’t do more than relieve the pain and keep me as
flexible as possible. I believe in Chiropractics over drugs and standard medicine any day.
I decided to try it, I was in pain at the first consultation and Dr. Group said I was a good candidate.
The first session offered relief and shortly after the second session on the DRX I went on a Cruise.
During the cruise I went scuba diving, hauled luggage all over the place and walked on a rocking
ship with almost NO pain. The vacation was great and for the most part I had little problems with
back pain.
Although I still have some back pain in my upper back since the DRX is not able to de-compress the
upper back, it’s not as bad as it was. My lower back has shown a huge improvement and although it’
s not completely healed the improvement is a huge blessing in my life. It has brought back feeling
to my right leg and the pain in the lower back is great compared to what it was. It seems to get
better every week.
The Laser Treatments:
The 3rd or 4th week I was seeing Dr. Group he aquired this new Cold Laser machine for improving
tissue healing and relieving pain. Even though I was being treated on the DRX for back pain, he
offered to use it on my other injuries including my elbow, jaw, lower back and a more recent fall
that injured my knee.
It’s pretty incredible; the Laser greatly reduced a long term chronic pain in my elbow; the jaw
seems to be healing and I didn’t think this was possible. The most incredible is the knee injury,
when I woke up the next morning I forgot for about 2 hours that I even had an injured knee. And
although it’s still a little sore it seems to be a lot better and not even close to being as painful as
the previous day and I walked on it most of today. The Laser is really impressive and seems to heal
damaged tissue from very old injuries as well as new ones. I’ve never heard of anything that can
do that.
I want to say that I’m genuinely impressed with Dr. Group’s sincere attitude to help people relieve
pain. He has helped me in so many ways to relieve many pains that I wasn’t expecting to lose from
the DRX treatments. My elbow feels better than it’s felt in I can’t remember how long, the jaw
problem seems to get better with each Laser treatment and my knee feels incredibly good with all
the swelling gone over night. My lower back feels better than it’s felt in years; the middle back is
showing improvement. A pinched nerve in my neck is a lot better and doesn’t hurt when I touch it
anymore. He even fixed the bursitis in my right hip that has bothered me for several years.
I have to say I wasn’t expecting so much pain relief when I met Dr. Jon Group in November 2006,
but I certainly am happy I did. The only problem is my old Chiropractor; after seeing him for 16 years
I realize he took me as far as he was capable of taking me as far as pain relief and now I just need
to tell him the good news.
Thank you Dr. Group for making my life so much better and most importantly less painful.
Sincerely yours,
Michael E