Meet the Advocates
These volunteers are here to offer support and guidance for others on their spine health journey. You can read their stories and submit questions you may have for them to answer.
What is Spinal Champion Advocate?
Spinal Champion Advocates are real spine patients invited into the program by the National Spine Health Foundation and offer truthful insights on topics such as: diagnosis, recovery, questions to ask, second opinions, finding emotional support, and finding educational resources.
Ask an Advocate
Our Spinal Champion Advocates are available to answer questions for other patients who are beginning their spine health journey. You can read their stories and submit a question below.
Ask a Spinal Champion Advocate.
Our Spinal Champion Advocates volunteer their time to speak with other patients about resources that they found helpful in their own patient journey. Spinal Champion Advocates do not offer professional medical advice nor make diagnoses. Rather, they share their own patient experiences. They are not employees of the National Spine Health Foundation. Spinal Champion Advocates may choose not to respond to patient messages that appear to be spam or abuse. they are not required to respond, they are encouraged to forward requests to the NSHF Program Manager. The National Spine Health Foundation reserves the right to remove them from the Spinal Champion Advocates program at any time.