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Jo Anne Basanez never let her age slow her down. At 82 , she works in her Slidell gift shop, Accents & Things 5 days a week. Joanne tripped over a cat in the yard and immediately suffered excruciating pain. She was bedridden for three days before finally seeing Neurosurgeon Justin Owen at Culicchia Neurological Clinic’s Slidell office.

“The moment I saw Ms. Basanez’s fracture on her films, I knew she was the perfect candidate for Kyphoplasty,” Dr. Owen said. He wasted no time getting her into surgery that afternoon. In a minimally invasive procedure, Dr. Owen inserted a single instrument into the vertebral space and basically cemented the fracture.

“I felt better immediately,” Ms. Basanez recalls. “I was back at work within two days. The pain was gone.”