KMBC: With the help of doctors, man is able to walk daughter down the aisle

August 10, 2020

Just months before his only daughter's wedding, Steve Berko was dealing with excruciating back pain that made it difficult to stand.

KMBC talked to Dr. Cheerag Upadhyaya, neurosurgeon and surgical director of Saint Luke's Marion Bloch Neuroscience Institute, about how doctors got Steve back on his feet just in time to walk his daughter down the aisle.

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