Eure-et-Loir is suffering more than ever from a growing shortage of doctors and practitioners in the health sector. But this time, at the private hospital of Eure-et-Loir, it is a doctor and soon two who settle down to offer the inhabitants a new health specialty: spine surgery. This is all the more significant since France has few practitioners in this specialty and almost all clinics are looking for them.
“I tell them it’s normal”
The first operation took place in early July and went very well, according to Doctor Clémence Heyberger-Meyblum, 37, the first practitioner to arrive at the former Mainvilliers clinic, managed by the Elsan group since 2017. She will soon be joined at the private hospital by her husband, doctor Jean Meyblum, son of a couple of radiologists from Châteaudun.
Until now, all patients suffering from pathologies linked to this specialty were forced to go to Le Mans (Sarthe), Tours (Indre-et-Loire) or the Paris region.
They discover the operating room in their pajamas
Clémence Heyberger-Meyblum, originally from Yvelines, has been practicing since 2017 in Val-d’Oise, in a private clinic. “We wanted to settle between Châteaudun and Versailles,” she explains.
In the collective imagination, spine surgery may seem risky. Clémence Heyberger-Meyblum confirms this image of Épinal. “I realize that when people have just had surgery and they wake up after the operation, they are amazed that they can move their legs?! I tell them it’s normal, it happens after 99.9999999% of column operations, ”smiles Clémence Heyberger-Meyblum.
Wild strawberries: beware, danger!
“People read anything on the internet and scare themselves for nothing. It’s a bit of a vicious circle. Since spine surgery is often dreaded, people who need it wait years and years before having it, only sometimes it’s too late and it can no longer be effective. »
arthrosis
Often these are osteoarthritis problems that pinch the nerves in the back. When this osteoarthritis problem is very advanced, they can no longer walk well. No matter how much you do surgery, the nerves don’t recover. »
Spinal pathologies are quite common. But, according to Doctor Clémence Heyberger-Meyblum, “when I receive around twenty patients in a day, I will, on average, offer a surgical operation to two people. »
Francois Feuilleux