There is a significant difference between diagnostic and therapeutic injections. These injections occasionally can be one and the same but generally, there is a difference. Most non-diagnostic interventionalist’s goals are to try to give patients [...]
An Overview of Rheumatological Conditions that Affect the Spine Spondyloarthopathies (spondylo=spine, arthros=joint, pathos= condition of) Rheumatological conditions that affect the spine are due to autoimmune disorders that attack the musculoskeletal system. In a normal [...]
Walking Abnormalities Overview The Analysis of a Limp Walking requires a symphony of various nerve and muscle functions to develop the normal gait that we all take for granted. Normal gait requires an intact [...]
An Overview of How Muscles Recover from Nerve Injuries Muscles have different ways to recover or adapt to nerve injuries. There are four types of nerve injuries that can occur. This section will discuss [...]
If you are a planning treatment of your neck or back condition, below are the best questions to ask when interviewing a spine surgeon: What is your infection rate? And along the same lines, what [...]
Spinal Cord and Peripheral Nerve Stimulation Overview Signals generated through the spinal cord and peripheral nerves in the form of nerve impulses are the information pathways that the brain learns about the environment and [...]
Rest allows some damaged structures to recover. Rest use to be used to try and heal back injuries. Studies have proven that too much rest will be detrimental as muscle deconditioning results. For acute onset [...]
Prolotherapy is the injection of a caustic substance into tissue that is designed to cause tissue destruction. The substance injected can be phenol, concentrated sugar or concentrated electrolyte. Tissue destruction (caused by prolotherapy) causes scar [...]
Physical therapy is as varied as chiropractic above. Therapists specialize in conditioning, strengthening, endurance, ergonomics and education. Physical therapy is very valuable for treatment of spinal pain and nerve pain. Nerve pain has to be [...]
Neck and Back Pain Medications - Their Use and Misuse Medications can be used to modulate many functions in the body. They may actually change the physiology of the damaged tissue or simply block or [...]
