Pain on a Plane; How to Avoid it
Pain on a Plane ; How to Avoid it 1.73 million people take a plane in America every day. The vast majority of these trips are business related but sooner or later almost everyone has a reason to get on a plane. A good portion of these people have neck or low back pain and […]
Is Your Handbag causing your Pain? Weigh it.
It happened again today. A healthy looking 40 year old showed up at the office with complaints of severe neck pain and right arm numbness and tingling. Her MRI showed some mild disc degeneration but nothing that should really be causing the problems she was describing. She insisted that every time she walked for long […]
Yoga: An Easy way to Prevent and Treat Back Pain
In a study funded by NIH’s National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), a team led by Dr. Robert Saper at Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center studied 320 predominantly low-income, racially diverse adults with moderate to severe chronic low back pain. Results were published online on June 20, 2017, in […]
Medial Branch Facet Injections and Radiofrequency Ablation – Another Option for Pain Control
Medial Branch Facet Injections and Radiofrequency Ablation -Another Option for Pain Control For certain people, the source of back pain is the irritation associated with cartilage wear in the facet joints of the spine. This wear and tear can cause pain that comes from the facets themselves, as the bones wear on each other, or […]
Backpack to Backache? What They Need to Know.
Watch your kids this year as they leave your car to go in to school. Keep an eye as they run for the bus. Are they leaning forward as they walk? Is there a limp? Do they complain of back pain or leg pain? It’s time for a backpack check-up. Let’s talk…… First pick up […]
Epidural Steroid Injections ; Do They Work?
In our practice, we use Epidural Steroid Injections for both treatment as well as diagnostic purposes. The research for these injections have been significant, but the conclusions by the various authors have been very different. There continues to be controversy on the efficacy of the treatments, including the side effects versus the results. Traditionally, epidural steroid […]
