January 13, 2012 | Posted by David Greene
In America, pain management is huge business. There are over 100 million people in the United States suffering from chronic pain every year, and the cost of this pain is over $500 billion every year. Multiple misperceptions exist in pain management. Here are a few of them described.
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January 11, 2012 | Posted by David Greene
What is a facet joint injection exactly?
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January 10, 2012 | Posted by David Greene
TENS, what are they, and how do they work? To start off, TENS are known as: Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation. What they are: four small square pads connected by small wires, (known as electrodes), which are usually placed directly on your skin; either near, or on the pained area.
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January 8, 2012 | Posted by David Greene
Despite the common public perception that spinal stenosis necessitates spinal surgery, there are nonoperative treatments which can effectively treat the condition. Some of these include steroid injections, activity modification, pain medications, or activity modification can help the patient successfully avoid surgery.
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January 7, 2012 | Posted by David Greene
Failed surgery of the low back happens way too often these days. Between 10 and 40% of individuals who undergo back surgery either have no improvement or end up with more problems afterwards. Due to those odds, it makes sense to try every possible nonoperative option before undergoing lumbar spine surgery.
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January 5, 2012 | Posted by David Greene
People who are doing with sciatica of a chronic time. Often end up receiving epidural injections to relieve the pain. There are actually 3 different types of epidural injections that are well-known and performed by pain management specialist.
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January 5, 2012 | Posted by David Greene
Chiropractors are doctors who heal by spinal manipulation and put into practice the art of healing by spinal alignment. The underlying philosophy lays with the thought that a healthy functional spine allows the nervous system to perform at an optimum capacity, therefore controlling every aspect of your body in a better and more efficient way.
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January 2, 2012 | Posted by David Greene
Significant number of people utilize the services of a chiropractor for 19 release. Many people believe that firecrackers address the pains source, and is able to fix throbbing and spasms. That pain is typically treated similarly to back pain, as chiropractors use controlled forces to push the joint past its typical range of motion in order to achieve pain relief.
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January 2, 2012 | Posted by David Greene
So you sustained a work injury by lifting something too heavy and then went to the emergency room and now you end up sitting in the waiting room of your local chiropractors clinic. Typically you’ll be feeling better in no time with treatment from your local chiropractor.
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December 30, 2011 | Posted by David Greene
Facet injections provide temporary pain relief that has resulted from facet joint inflammation. It is not fully understood how the pain is generated in the facet joint, but it is thought to result from several causes which could be arthritis, injury, degeneration, which can produce back pain symptoms potentially similar to that of disc degeneration.
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