Bruce E Dall MD

Bruce E Dall was born in South Omaha. He attended the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Michigan State University's affiliated orthopedic residency program and Southern Illinois University's spine fellowship. He became an orthopedic spinal surgeon in 1985 and began his practice at Borgess Medical Center in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He soon learned that countless patients were suffering from chronic back pain which traditional treatments often failed to relieve. He then began a quest for answers about how to diagnose and treat chronic sacroiliac joint problems, now proven to be a prime generator for back pain. Dr. Dall's research and self-training led him to literally create his own treatments, including surgery, for patients whose suffering from chronic sacroiliac joint pain had not been relieved by antiquated and poorly understood textbook methods. The sources for his books include Dr. Dall's thirty years’ experience in the diagnosis and treatment of hundreds of patients with chronic sacroiliac joint pain, as well as the shared experiences of several colleagues, laboratory research, and a century's worth of literature on the subject of fusing the sacroiliac joints together when all other treatment methods failed. He has published several clinical studies on long-term outcomes from surgeries. His development of a minimally invasive method to fuse sacroiliac joints was published in a peer reviewed journal in 2008, and his production of an algorithm to guide clinicians and surgeons through this diagnosis was published as a white paper in 2010. Following this, the Borgess Brain and Spine Institute, where he practiced from 2005 to 2013, became not only a national referral source for chronic sacroiliac pain, but began receiving inquiries from patients in countries around the world. In collaboration with a group of other orthopedic spine surgeons in America, who understood and shared his interest, he created a textbook for surgeons and physical therapists, "Surgery for the Painful and Dysfunctional Sacroiliac Joint: a clinical guide", on how to diagnose and treat sacroiliac joint pain patients. It was published by Springer Publishing Company in November 2014. The following year he published a paper in a peer-reviewed orthopedic surgical journal about patients who suffered from both pain in the lumbar spine and the sacroiliac joint at the same time; the first study to discuss performing a fusion on both areas in one setting. In January 2023 he was awarded the "Lifetime Achievement Award" for his work with patients suffering from chronic pain due dysfunctional sacroiliac joints by the International Sacroiliac Medical Education Group (SIMEG). Currently, Dr. Dall is an Associate Professor Emeritus at Western Michigan University School of Medicine. He is involved in ongoing clinical and laboratory research on the sacroiliac joint, and continues to write on the subject for medical professionals and those suffering from chronic sacroiliac joint pain. Disclosure: Dr. Dall has no vested interest in any device being manufactured or sold by industry for the purpose of fusing the sacroiliac joint.