What Causes Sciatic Pain?
What is Sciatica? Sciatic pain, or lumbar radiculopathy, is a term used to describe symptoms of pain such as burning, numbing, and/or weakness that radiates down the sciatic nerve from the low back to...
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Treatments For Disc Herniations
Treatment for herniated lumbar discs depends on the time and symptoms, anatomical/surgical considerations and the proper diagnosis. Proper Diagnosis: Complaints of back pain are very common and often resolve with little to no intervention....
Time-Frame For Returning To Work Post-Injury
Disclaimer: All injuries vary and each patient is different, as well as the jobs they perform. All work restrictions and recommendations to return to full duty are made on a case by case basis....
Trigger Point Injections For Muscle Pain Relief
Trigger point injections are a way to treat muscular neck and back pain due to muscle inflammation and spasm. The muscles of the neck and back are multi-layered and run in multiple different directions....
What are Facet Injection & How Do They Work?
What Are Facet Joints? The facets are small joints in the back of the spine that allow the spine to bend and move. They are like small finger joints. There is one facet joint...
Using Telemedicine For Orthopedic Injuries
Telemedicine, and specifically tele-orthopedics, is another powerful tool that can facilitate care of the injured patient. Seeing a physician, particularly a specialist, can be time consuming and difficult to schedule. Many patients may...
5 Tips to Coping With Depression From Chronic Pain
Tips to living with chronic neck and back pain: Chronic pain affects more than 3 million people in the US per year. Chronic pain is hard to cure but can be successfully treated. Many...
Tips and supplements for healing bone fractures
What is a bone fracture? A bone fracture is any loss of continuity of the bone. There is no difference between a "broken" and a "fractured" bone. Fractures can vary in severity from a...