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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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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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Radiofrequency Ablation of Medial Branch Nerves
Radiofrequency ablation is a nonsurgical spine intervention meant to help relieve neck or back pain.
