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Dissecting Low Back Pain: Sacroiliac joint dysfunction and pain
One reason for low back pain that often eludes diagnosis and often is misdiagnosed and untreated is due to the sacroiliac joint.
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Why manage pain?
Your doctor or surgeon is referring you to pain management and you are thinking to yourself why “manage” pain? Isn’t there a reason for my pain that needs to be treated, healed, or…
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Dissecting Low Back Pain: Degenerative causes including lumbar spondylosis, degenerative disc disease, spinal stenosis and facet joint syndrome.
Most of chronic lower back pain is due to degenerative causes. Before we go over these lets first define degenerative disease. The definition of degenerative disease is one in which the function or…
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Dissecting Low Back Pain: Lumbar Sprain/Strain
The most common reason to have low back pain is a lumbar sprain/strain injury, commonly referred to as a pulled muscle or ligament.
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Dissecting Low Back Pain: Lumbar Disc Herniation
One common reason to have low back pain is a herniated disc. Also known as a disc bulge, disc protrusion and disc extrusion.
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Dissecting Low Back Pain: Congenital Causes- Scoliosis
Congenital reasons to have lower back pain have to do with spinal abnormalities that one is born with. Among these abnormalities one of the more common ones is congenital scoliosis. In this post…
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What causes low back pain?
Almost everyone alive either had an episode of low back pain or will have one at some point in their life, its just that common. But why does it happen and what causes…
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Spinal Cord Stimulation
This is a interventional pain treatment option where pain is reduced by an implanted spinal cord stimulator (SCS). A SCS is a device consisting of electrical wires (leads) attached to a pacemaker like…
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What is Interventional Pain Management?
Interventional pain management is a sub-specialty of Pain Medicine with the purpose of treating pain by utilizing specific procedures.
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Radiofrequency Ablation of Genicular Nerves for Chronic Knee Pain
This is a nonsurgical interventional pain procedure performed to help relieve pain and improve function for those with chronic knee pain. This treatment can be an option for those with chronic knee pain…
