I am a marathon runner and got a heel spur 1 year ago. I have been on a break from running for 8 months and have tried various treatments that have not helped.

I have heard from my friends about the Stop the Pain clinic. I received 1 treatment for the pain at the clinic. After a 3 week break from running, I started training for the half and full marathon again without pain. I have just completed the DM Chp half marathon and Berlin marathon without pain.

Hi, my name is Inge and I am a chronic pain patient. I was treated today at Cryo Center Copenhagen. A great positive experience and an incredibly sweet doctor and nurse. I am on my way home to Jutland with a super good feeling that the treatment is working. I have a good effect here and now and I am confident that it will continue. I hope that many more people will have the opportunity to be treated. I will return when some time has passed. To tell you how it goes. Kind regards, Inge

We have a boy who is almost 13 years old who hit his foot when he was 5. He subsequently had great pain where he had hit it. We were then referred to several different hospitals before they found out in Hvidovre that he had a neuroma. It was operated on and we thought everything was fine, but unfortunately not. He has subsequently had great pain and can only walk on the heel of his right foot. Finally, we were discharged from Hvidovre and referred to Herlev because they thought it was psychological. We then contacted an anesthesia nurse we had been associated with and she said we should try the StopSmerten clinic.

We made an appointment for a consultation. but not with great hope, as no one else had been able to help us. But already at 1 visit, they said that they could definitely help our boy, maybe not make him completely pain-free, but could definitely help it. 2 large neuromas were then found in his foot.

Our boy subsequently had 3 treatments, where he was given local anesthesia in the nerve where the neuroma was, to be sure that the treatment would help.

He then had the largest neuroma, which was on top of the foot and caused the most pain, iced and 4 weeks later there is a significant improvement in pain.

Now we are going to start with the second neuroma, which is in a more difficult place, under the foot, but we are very confident and hope that it will help just as much as the first.

We can definitely recommend the clinic if you are in pain and want to feel better and perhaps become pain-free.

Here is my wife’s (Miladinka) story

I started feeling pain in my back at the beginning of 2012. Over time, the pain got worse and worse, and eventually I was referred for an MRI scan in Viborg and afterwards for examination at Viborg Hospital.

I was told that the following could be seen on MRI scan images:

“An MRI scan of the lumbar spine was performed on 17.10.12 and this shows scattered degenerative changes according to the description with a radial tear lesion at the L1/L2 level, but no actual prolapse and no spinal stenosis or foraminal stenosis. There may be some narrowing of the foramina at the 4/5 level but very limited.
X-rays were performed today and they show no signs of segmental instability.”

I was informed that surgery would not be helpful, as he, as a specialist doctor, can see that it is NOT for surgery.

I started taking painkillers to cope.

A few months later, when the pain got much worse, I was referred again to a specialist at Viborg Hospital. The examination ended with the same conclusion as the one 3 months ago, and I was given a block (injection).

The blockade helped a little (a month and a half or so), then I started to feel pain again. And it got worse. Not just my back, but it started to spread to my right leg (outer side, down to the knee).

When I felt a little better from receiving a blockade, I asked again for a referral to get an injection.

This time it was at FRI Diagnostic Center in Give. When I was examined at the Give clinic, I of course asked if there was anything else that could be done about the pain (second opinion, of course), besides blockade, since the blockade itself is very harmful in the long term if you keep doing it. They also looked at the pictures of my MRI scan and told me that there is nothing else to do – blockade as well as pain medication and some exercises to strengthen my back.

And I have, of course, tried that. But apart from the pain being reduced a little (after a month and a half of blockade), nothing positive happened.

On the contrary. After I had 4 or 5 blockade injections in total, the hip/leg pain during 2014 started to be so great that I almost stopped walking. My right leg took on an unnatural position (the pain pulled the leg all the way to the inside) and my whole body followed the leg and hip. I looked like someone who had just been in a traffic accident. I couldn’t manage a single flight of stairs on the way into the house without help or great effort.

It should also be mentioned here that a person who suffers from pain tries everything possible to get rid of it. You read on the internet, talk to friends / acquaintances / work colleagues. At one point I started taking Keltican (back pain medicine from Germany). No help. I have been to acupuncture here near Horsens. Nothing. I have eaten a diet prepared according to special recipes. Nothing. The pain continued. Worse and worse. The specialists also kept telling me that nothing could be done.

Finally, despite great skepticism, I tried the Stop Pain clinic. My family and I thought, they can’t just freeze my nerve, right?!?! What if they hit the wrong spot? Can I become disabled? What if I can’t control my physiological urges?! What if…? Thousands of questions.

I called them and made an appointment for a non-binding chat. My husband and I drove to Copenhagen and after the first conversation with specialists René Kestenholz and Igor Filipovski I was almost convinced that I would give it a try.

Two more interviews followed, including a test injection to show whether the treatment should work on me or not. The test went so well that I couldn’t believe my eyes. Finally I could walk normally! And I could go up and down the stairs. I could bend forward and reach my fingers. After almost 2.5 years.

All anxiety and doubt disappeared and we made an appointment for the final treatment.

It happened at the beginning of June 2015. During the procedure, we could follow everything that happened on the system’s screen. In short: sound scanning to find the right nerve, a long nail (which didn’t hurt) that freezes the nerve… It all took less than half an hour.

Ten minutes after the procedure I was on my feet again. And I, just like after the first test treatment, could NOT feel any pain. I could get up on a 60 cm high chair. Directly. With my right leg first, without anyone helping me, and without me holding on to anything. I was pain free smile emoticon.

Today is almost 4 months after treatment. The pain in my leg and hip, which has been my number one problem, never came back. I walk normally, I can bend and turn around without any major problems. I am a fully functional person. Thanks to nerve freezing.

To be completely honest, I must also say that what remains is sporadic pain in the back itself. Pain that it all started with 3-4 years ago. All severe pain in the hip and right leg has 100% disappeared. The pain that I feel now is 10% of the pain I lived with for several years.

I also expect that treatment no. 2 will help me with the remaining pain.

Once again, even though I’ve told you many times, thank you so much for helping me come back from hell smile emoticon.