Dr. Ehsan Jazini details the complex rehabilitation and medical needs of injured first responders

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]What does that mean for you, Dr. Jazini?

[00:00:02]I mean, I know as a spine surgeon, you obviously care for all of your patients equally, but I would imagine there's a little bit of a different twist when it's someone who has served their community. Uh they've served and and protected the people around them and then they have sometime sometimes a catastrophic injury and then they come to you. What is the healing like on the other side when you get to see that manifest?

[00:00:24]So, you know, what's unique about first responders, uh, firefighters, police officers, and mil military veterans is that they're trained to, you know, fight through pain. They're they're fighting toward danger, right? And so, they often times have put off their own injuries, right, because of their own resilience and of their own training. And so by the time they they come to me and I've injur and I've treated many many police officers and first responders uh and I so I can speak to this is their problems have become more complex. They've usually gone down the road of what we call fragmented care. That means that they're not really getting the whole picture understood. The diagnosis often times missed. They've had a lot of failed treatments and the focus and has been really just on pain management which then gets them in a very bad cycle of of chronic pain, depression, mental and physical and and psychological toll on them on their families and and a loss of sense of identity. And Tim uh story is really a reflection of that. But there are many many others like him that I have helped uh with a phenomenal team here that we have at BSI. And what's unique about our practice, the way we can help these individuals is by having multiple disciplines work together as a team to really restore function. That's physical therapy, that's rehab, that's regenerative treatments. And surgery really is last resort. And we use the most cutting edge techniques like motion preservation technologies to really help our patients. What it does for me as a person, this is my calling, right? I got into medicine to help others. And so the the best way to do that is by helping individuals like Tim who are on the front lines and helping our communities.

[00:02:03]And so for me it's honor and privilege because it's a force multiplier. If I can help that one individual, I've helped a whole potential whole community. And so it it resonates on a much more deeper level when I can help a first responder.