Dr. Richard Alexan-Shirabad, MD

WARNING: RECKLESS STAFF & COMPLACENT MANAGEMENT. LEAVES YOU IN PAIN. Please do not trust Bakersfield Neuroscience and Spine Institute or Dr. Richard Alexan-Shirabed MD. I have had three other nerve conduction tests over my lifetime, and none of them leave me in lasting pain like this place! I went here because I have been losing function in my two middle fingers. I walked in with zero baseline wrist or thumb pain. The female technician completely tortured me during a nerve conduction test. She didn't start light—she went straight to high, painful electrical settings. She literally told me that she "doesn't start light; she gets right to it." I sat there crying and crying in the middle of it. She only finally asked if I needed her to stop when she was already more than 3/4 of the way through the test. Afterward, I had to go hide in their bathroom just to try to stop crying. Her actions severely aggravated my nerves. It has been almost two months, and I am now struggling with severe… wrist and thumb pain that did not exist before this test. For weeks afterwards, I'd be drying my hands, and I'd feel a sudden spike of pain, and I'd literally scream in pain. My hand would be paralyzed for three days at a time, only to have it happen over and over again for three weeks after the nerve conduction test. When I called the office manager to complain, she actually tried to cover it up by claiming that the technician looked at my records and decided I "needed" to start at a higher rate. That is an outright lie and completely backwards medical practice. They ignored my tears, and management makes ridiculous excuses for them. Go anywhere else if you want to protect your body!