Persistent Back and Spine Discomfort?
When your lower back or spine aches day after day, it touches almost everything — how you sleep, how you sit, how you carry yourself, and the activities you slowly stop reaching for. A physician-led consultation is a calm place to talk it through.
When the back hurts, the body finds workarounds.
Persistent back and spine discomfort narrows life quietly. The pattern below is what most patients describe by the time they reach our clinic.
Posture quietly changes
You start sitting differently, standing differently, and your body finds ways to avoid the discomfort.
Sleep, and how you lie
The mattress matters more. The pillow matters more. The first hour of the morning sets the tone for the day.
Activities you used to reach for
Lifting, gardening, carrying groceries, long flights — the list of things you say yes to gets shorter.
Back pain with its own signature.
The shapes of chronic back pain vary, but patients tend to recognize themselves in a few of these.
A consultation with Dr. Alejandro Giraldo.
Anesthesiology · Pain Management
Dr. Alejandro Giraldo
Back pain rarely has one simple cause. I want to look at how the whole picture moves together — sleep, posture, history — before talking about options.
- Board-certified anesthesiologist
- Specialist in pain management
- Focus on lumbar pain, chronic back pain, and chronic pain conditions
- Reviews your history and imaging before the call
- Consults in English and Spanish
A first call built around listening.
Thirty minutes, virtual, no cost, no obligation. You leave with a written summary of what was discussed and a clear sense of whether traveling to Medellín for a closer look makes sense for you.
You share what is going on
You book a time that suits you and send any imaging or notes you have. The physician reviews them before the call.
The physician listens
The first conversation is about hearing the full story — sleep, energy, what has helped, what has not — not just where it hurts most today.
You discuss next steps
The physician shares what they are seeing in plain language, and which physician-led options would be worth considering.
You decide at your pace
You receive a written summary. No follow-up pressure. If a visit to Medellín makes sense, the concierge team handles every detail.
A clinic that takes the time to listen first.
Unhurried physician-led conversations, a bilingual concierge team, and a calm clinic in El Poblado built around the international patient experience.
Questions worth asking.
A good consultation is one where you do plenty of the talking. These are questions patients often find useful to bring to the first call.
- Given my full history, what might be contributing to the pattern you see in my back?
- How do you think about discomfort that affects sleep and posture together?
- What physician-led options would you discuss for someone in my situation?
- What would you want to assess in person before discussing anything further?
- What does a typical visit to the clinic in Medellín involve, start to finish?
- What should I gather, history or imaging, to make the consultation most useful?
Start with a conversation.
A free, no-obligation virtual consultation with Dr. Alejandro Giraldo is the simplest first step. Physician-led, bilingual, and entirely at your pace.
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