Dr. Lefkoe wasted the majority of a year with his misdiagnosis and his seeming disinterest in using best practices to truly search in earnest for my actual issue. Now I know I have "classic Lumbar stenosis" but I was not ever going to find that out by using him as a spine "expert". I came to him after already having two rounds of P.T. I described my pain symptoms- sciatica pain, pain down the outside of my calves, toe numbness, thigh muscle pain, some buttocks numbness, sometimes spasticity in my feet. You can look up lumbar stenosis on any medical site and these symptoms will appear but they did not appear for Dr. Lefkoe. Ultimately it fell to my primary care physician to bypass the "specialist" to receive an MRI which showed conclusively that I had lumbar stenosis particularly in the area of L5 which would also be the obvious area to produce my symptons. When you have a bad back and suffer income loss and pain for most of a year and make no progress on dealing with this diminished quality of life and pay a good deal for this lack of quality care, you can only hope to dissuade others from making the same mistake. I only wish I could give him a score of 0, because that it the treatment I received. read more
