The COVID-19 virus caused many long-term health problems, including more diaphragm paralysis, according to a Temple Health surgeon. When a Kansas father couldn't breathe without excruciating pain, he found a solution in Philadelphia.
When a Kansas father couldn't breathe without excruciating pain, he found a solution at Temple Health in Philadelphia .It left a Kansas dad barely able to breathe without excruciating pain."I love being, playing softball," says Joe Potter of Highland, Kansas.
But two years ago, COVID benched Joe with a stabbing pain in back of his chest every time he breathed."It was so severe that I was running on minimal amounts of sleep because I could not get comfortable, no way," he vividly recalls.At their suggestion and with his wife's research, he came to Dr. Charles Bakhos of the Temple Lung Center, who found the cause."I was trying so hard to get air that I was collapsing my trachea," Joe adds.
"It cannot be missed," Dr. Bakhos said. "The diaphragm would be very elevated, instead of just above the stomach."For more severe cases, plication surgery is best."We suture it onto itself, to reshape it, make it more stiff and flat, to allow the lungs to expand more," he explains."I've been back the whole time since, with no restrictions," he says with a big smile.Dr.
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