Posts by rwdh
Intercostal Neuralgia
SYMPTOMS Do you feel burning, lancinating, stabbing pain that goes from back to front or vice versa in oneside of your thorax? This could mean that you are suffering from intercostal neuralgia. Usuallyproduced as post-herpetic neuralgia (shingles), this type of pain can be devastating in someone’slife. Thankfully there are many options to treat it. From…
Read MorePost-Laminectomy Syndrome or better known as Failed Back Syndrome (FBS)
SYMPTOMS Do you have a history of back surgery? Do you feel like you got back your neurological deficit but not the control of your back and extremities pain, and being told there is no more surgery it can be done? TREATMENT Spinal Cord Stimulator (SCS) A spinal cord stimulator is a device used to…
Read MoreVertebral Compression Fracture:
SYMPTOMS Had a recent fall? Have a pain in the spine that will not go away with any pain medication? Do you sometimes feel it’s hard to breathe from this pain? Have a history of osteopenia or osteoporosis? Or simply feel pain all over your back after a recent fall or trauma? This could be…
Read MoreCoccydynia
SYMPTOMS The tailbone! Usually, trauma is related to this pain, and you remember it. But it can happen sporadically. It is not always there is a fracture. Most of the time, there is a subluxation (a displacement that corrected itself) causing detriment of the ligaments involved and subsequent pain in the coccyx bone. TREATMENTS Coccydynia…
Read MoreSacroiliitis
SYMPTOMS Have you been pregnant?Have you had vaginal delivery?Or are you a runner? Or have yougained or lost weight recently?Do you have a history of scoliosis “S” spine?Are you a weight lifter? Sacroiliitis or Sacro-Iliac Joint disease (SIJ Disease) is a commonly underdiagnosed disease of the spine. Usually creates an aching pain in both sides…
Read MoreLumbar Spinal Stenosis
SYMPTOMS Ever felt like the day begins okay, and then after just a few blocks, your feet just get tired and in pain, making you stop walking? Do you feel that the only way to get relief is leaning forward against a desk or something to support you? Do you feel that pushing the grocery…
Read MoreRadiculopathy
SYMPTOMS You know this one! Most patients already know the diagnosis before we even mention it. It’s that shooting pain that comes from the back, down the buttocks, and down to the foot. Sometimes this can progress from simple discomfort to numbness and motor weakness of theleg or arm involved. TREATMENT Epidural Injections:These are the…
Read MoreFacet Joint Arthropathy
SYMPTOMS Do you feel that your pain is worse as the day progresses? Standing up straight makes it worse? Do you feel like you want to bend over to get relief, and when you’re in bed you actually feelbetter sleeping in the fetal position? This could be a form of axial spine pain from degenerationof…
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