Experiencing neck pain? Cervical (neck) pain has many causes. Whiplash related to a motor vehicle accident, pulling on your neck while doing sit-ups, using the arm of your couch as a pillow while lying down, habitual neck popping, wrestling, playing football or soccer, and jamming your neck into a pillow while sleeping are just a…
In pain management, it is important to determine the direction of the nerve pain that patients may be experiencing. Diabetic neuropathic pain and its symptoms can range from pain and numbness in your legs and feet. Nerve pain that radiates down the extremities is caused by spinal nerve compression. In the upper extremities, Carpal Tunnel…
Shoulder pain can present itself in many ways. You can experience numbness, along with dull, achy, tingling, electrifying sensations that radiate into your shoulders (left, right, or both) and sometimes your scapula. You may also have problems lifting or raising your arms above your head. You may be a side sleeper and have shoulder pain…
Arthritis is a rheumatic disease that causes inflammation of the joints, stiffness, and deformity. There are more than one hundred different types of arthritis that may affect multiple parts of the body. The most common forms are osteoarthritis (degenerative joint disease), rheumatoid arthritis, and gout. It can affect people of all ages. Symptoms can come…
What does it mean if you’re having numbness, tingling, dull, achy pain in your hand(s) and forearm. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Tennis Elbow, and de Quervain Tendonitis are commonly seen in primary care and pain management specialties. The symptoms of all three conditions present in similar ways; therefore, a thorough assessment must be performed. In order…
Spinal Stenosis is another contributor to spinal pain. It is caused by one or more posterior disc protrusions that occur anywhere along the spinal column and reduce the amount of space around the spinal cord. Depending on the location, people may experience neuropathic pain, muscle weakness, and sometimes depending on the severity, a decline in…
There are many causes of Lower Back Pain (Lumbar Pain). Lower back pain can be a result of poor lifting and bending mechanics, not properly warming up before exercising, being in a motor vehicle accident, having arthritis, scoliosis (abnormal curvature of the spine), stiff/tight psoas muscles, or for no specific reason at all. Lower Back Pain…
Spondylosis and Spondylolisthesis – Spondylosis is a break in the pars interarticularis of the articular pillar as a result of acute trauma, such as a fall. The disruption is usually bilateral and occurs mostly in the lower back at the L5 section. When there is a bilateral pars fracture the vertebrae can slip forward causing…
The importance of stretching: I see hundreds of pain patients on a weekly basis, who have lower back pain as a result of stiff muscles. As you get older, you will have a decline in mobility because of the decrease in physical activity. Your tendons and ligaments get tighter and pull your body out of…
