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I can dance through pain, but this pain is beyond anything I've ever felt.

I just start calling a chiropractor.

She basically got my head moving enough to do this show that night.

Then they put me on oral steroids, and I did this show for another month.

Sleeping at night was the most miserable experience.

I remember waking up hysterically crying.

I just started seeing a lot of doctors.

Good, push out against me.

Perfect.

Perfect.

Now, put your wrists down like this... The first doctor I saw said that if I got tapped that I would be paralyzed.

I had a severe herniated disc in my neck that was pushing on my spinal cord.

I saw four other surgeons after that.

Out of the six, five told me I had to get surgery because you just can't dance with this injury.

It wasn't until I went to this sixth surgeon.

Tiler... you know, I am not certain that you're going to be able to go back to dance.

I can't give you guarantees that that's going to happen.

We're going to start you on a non-surgical program.

We're going to repeat an MRI in three months and see if there's been resorption.

What, like seven other doctors didn't even give that a like an option?

No.

- I know.

And like... My heart is beating really fast.

It really is.

I know.

It was what we wanted to hear, but not what we expected to hear.

So I think three more months and another MRI.

And then perhaps at that time we could stand up and do a little baby barre kind of thing.

But in the meantime, just get the rest of you strong enough because you haven't done anything for the rest of your body.

So we have to stop focusing so much on just the neck and really take care of the environment that the neck has to live in.

And then I think that disk will reabsorb.

I really believe that.