Back Pain
Back pain affects millions worldwide, impacting daily activities and quality of life. Understanding its causes and effective management strategies is crucial for finding relief and reclaiming control over your life.
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We have all been taught that what shows up on an MRI is incredibly important—so much so that countless invasive surgeries are launched based on a picture and a cursory exam. Despite this, study after study continues to show just how bad MRI is at predicting who’s in pain. However, one of the sacred cows…read more
Back Pain a Predictor of Poor Knee Replacement Outcomes
One of the hardest things for the modern orthopedic surgeon to do is to look outside of the joint that he or she is treating to another area that may be involved in the pathology. As an example, to see how a back problem can lead to knee or hip arthritis. To some degree this…read more Radiofrequency Ablation for Back Pain Reviews: Is It a Good Idea?
On this page: What is radiofrequency ablation (RFA)? What are the pros and cons of RFA? Does radiofrequency ablation treat back pain? Radiofrequency has recently resurfaced in the medical news, but are there any reliable radiofrequency ablation for back pain reviews? Many years ago, I learned how to use radiofrequency ablation (RFA). The good news…read more Fibrin Treatment for Back Pain: Do You Need to Seal a Degenerated Disc?
This week, while I was performing a procedure on another patient, Dr. Bashir poked his head in to let me know of his great success with a chronic disc pain patient. It was an impressive 95% improvement in a patient who had tried it all and was now back to golf after a stem cell…read more New Disc Treatment: DISCSEEL™ to Heal?
For patients with chronic low back pain, there are more non-surgical options than ever in 2016. This can also be a two edged sword, in that there’s also more misinformation. This morning I’d like to highlight a new disc treatment called Discseel™ (aka Diskseel ™) that’s seems to have lots of confusion surrounding it and…read more Sitting and Sciatica Pain: How I Solved It With a Walk
On this page: What is sciatica? How are sitting and sciatica pain related? How does walking help sciatica pain? I’ve been at a medical conference lecturing all week, basically a sit fest. Despite trying to exercise every day and get up and move as much as feasible, my intermittent sciatica was singing last night at…read more New England Journal of Medicine: R.I.P. Back and Neck Fusion Surgery
There has been an explosion in low back and neck fusion surgeries in the past two decades. However, I often tell my patients that “fusion is a dog with big fleas.” After they have a spinal fusion and are seen in the office and have more pain somewhere else, I tell them that they’re now…read more 3 Signs Your Back Is Causing Your Knee Pain
On this page: Can your back cause knee pain? How are the knee and back connected? What are the signs your back is causing your knee pain? Just about everything you think you know about your knee pain is probably wrong. This is because so much of what you hear is based on a surgical…read more 
