Back 2 Backs Appoints Dr. Thomas Purtzer as Director of Medical Operations.Business Editors WHITE CITY, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 25, 2003 Back 2 Backs, Inc., a rapidly growing two-year old health-care services company, today announced that it has appointed Dr. Thomas J. Purtzer as its Director of Medical Operations. Purtzer will be in charge of all physicians training and oversee treatment plans and protocols at each of Back 2 Backs' clinics in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Back 2 Backs operates five health-care clinics offering a highly effective proprietary treatment for the relief of lower back pain using FDA-approved spinal decompression spinal decompression n. The relief of pressure upon the spinal cord as caused by a tumor, cyst, hematoma, or bone, through surgery. systems. The spinal decompression system used by Back 2 Backs has recorded an 86% success rate in reducing pain among those who experience chronic lower back pain due to a variety of problems. Back 2 Backs' treatment protocol, in many cases, can alleviate the necessity of surgical intervention. Each facility operates under the Back 2 Backs(TM) brand name. "Dr. Purtzer is nationally recognized as an authority in pain management," said Stephen Pugsley, president of Back 2 Backs, Inc. "Our organization is extremely pleased that Dr. Purtzer accepted this role because we feel that with his medical direction, our company will grow to become the preeminent provider of solutions for chronic pain management." Since 1988, Purtzer has been in private practice in Neurosurgery neurosurgery /neu·ro·sur·gery/ (noor´o-sur?jer-e) surgery of the nervous system. neu·ro·sur·ger·y n. Surgery on any part of the nervous system. and Pain Management at Rogue Valley The Rogue Valley is a farming and timber-producing region in southwestern Oregon in the United States. located along the middle Rogue River and its tributaries in Josephine and Jackson counties, the valley forms the cultural and economic heart of southern Oregon near the California Neurosurgical in Medford, Ore. Previously, he was at the Medford (OR.) Neurological Clinic P.C. Purtzer was an early shareholder of Back 2 Backs and is a shareholder of Raybor Management Inc., the parent company of Back 2 Backs. A frequently published authority on spinal cord spinal cord, the part of the nervous system occupying the hollow interior (vertebral canal) of the series of vertebrae that form the spinal column, technically known as the vertebral column. tethering and related specialties, Purtzer is Board-certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery and the American Academy The American Academy in Berlin is a non-partisan academic institution in Berlin. It was founded in September 1994 by a group of prominent Americans and Germans, among them Richard Holbrooke, Henry Kissinger, Richard von Weizsäcker, Fritz Stern and Otto Graf Lambsdorff and opened in of Pain Management. He is a member of the Jackson County Jackson County is the name of 23 counties and one parish in the United States:
"Back 2 Backs provides an incredible service to those who have been suffering from chronic back pain," said Purtzer. "My goal is to see that each of our clinics has the best possible treatment program for those who suffer from chronic pain. Medicine has made major strides over the last few years in recognizing and dealing with chronic pain, and Back 2 Backs is committed to bringing those advancements to the public." Purtzer, who earned his M.D. at Oregon Health Sciences University, is a resident of Central Point, Ore., with his wife, Regina May Purtzer, and four children. About Raybor Raybor Management Inc. (RMI (Remote Method Invocation) A standard from Sun for distributed objects written in Java. RMI is a remote procedure call (RPC), which allows Java objects (software components) stored in the network to be run remotely. ), a publicly-reporting corporation based in White City, Ore., is a rapidly growing company engaged through its subsidiaries in a number of diverse business activities. Included in the Raybor group, in addition to Back 2 Backs, are IC Marketing and American Consumer Publishing Company, two of the largest direct mail sales agents for magazine subscriptions in the United States, and Freedom Financial, a financial factoring company. Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. Statement This press release may contain forward-looking statements relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc Back 2 Backs, RMI and its subsidiaries. These forward-looking statements are subject to and qualified by certain risks and uncertainties. Such statements do not imply the future success of RMI or its subsidiaries. These risks and uncertainties are detailed from time to time in RMI's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the name Raybor Management Inc. |
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