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How to Treat Neck Pain With Exercise
How to treat neck pain. Neck pain can be a debilitating condition that affects many people. It can be caused by a variety of factors, such as poor posture, overuse, or injury.
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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: 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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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…
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Radiofrequency Ablation of Lateral Branch Nerves
This is a nonsurgical intervention meant to help relieve pain and improve function for those with pain confirmed to be from the sacroiliac joints. This treatment sometimes is referred to by other names…
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Sacroiliac Joint Injections
In this type of injection, medication is injected into the sacroiliac joint (SIJ). This less known but important large joint is located in the sacrum approximately at the junction of the lower back…
