by rss feed | Jul 11, 2025 | Back Pain, News Feeds
Your body has a remarkable ability to heal itself, but sometimes it needs a nudge. Ligaments and tendons, the tough connective tissues that hold your joints together, have a poor blood supply, which means they can be slow to heal after an injury. This often leads to...
by rss feed | May 4, 2025 | Back Pain, News Feeds
Patients will often come into our office with an MRI, low back pain and a diagnosis of sacroiliac joint dysfunction. They are in our office because they may have been told that they should consider a surgical recommendation to spinal fusion. For many of these people,...
by rss feed | May 4, 2025 | Back Pain, News Feeds
Lumbar spinal stenosis is a common cause of lower back and leg pain, especially as we get older. It happens when the spaces in the lower spine become narrower, which can place pressure on nearby nerves. For some people, this leads to aching in the low back, pain...
by rss feed | May 4, 2025 | Back Pain, News Feeds
In our practice we often see patients who are in severe back pain. These people have an MRI, X-ray and/or scan that may show an inaccurate picture of what is causing their pain. What do I mean by inaccurate picture? The MRI cannot show muscle spasms from a simple back...
by rss feed | May 4, 2025 | Back Pain, News Feeds
It may be more challenging to get a spinal surgery these days. For some people it may be even more challenging to recover from it once they do have it. Let’s look at two studies, seven years apart, from the same learning institute. The research concerns pain and fear...
by rss feed | May 4, 2025 | Back Pain, News Feeds
I will frequently receive emails from a web visitor that say, I have a serious back problem, I am being advised to have spinal surgery for degenerative disc disease, can you help me? I then write back, “what is the nature of your serious back problem?“ The answer? “I...
