Low Back Pain

Low back pain is a common condition characterized by discomfort or stiffness in the lower spine area, often affecting daily activities. It can arise from various causes, including muscle strain, injury, or underlying medical conditions.

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Low Back Pain in Hip Replacement

Low back pain in hip replacement?  As you know, we’re big advocates for the concept of the “hip bone’s connected to the back bone, and the leg bone’s connected to the knee bone…” We often see patients who have both hip and back pain and many assume that their back pain is a result of…read more

Low Back Facet Joints and Stem Cells?

Can stem cells help patients with low back facet joints pain? The answer is that it depends. If the facet joint was damaged due to trauma (more common with neck facet joints) then we’ve seen good results. However, much of low back facet pain is degenerative and thus due to longstanding wear forces. To review,…read more

Low Back pain causing Knee Pain?

Low Back Knee Pain? One of the more common misdiagnoses we see on a day to day basis is a patient with minimal back pain and knee pain, but whose knee pain is really being caused by a pinched nerve in the back. What? Is it possible that a patient with a pinched nerve in the…read more

SI Joint Pain after Low Back Fusion

Low back fusions are a big problem. While a few patients who get their back fused really need the procedure to control serious instability, most patients get their back fused to help control pain. Recent controversies surrounding things like BMP drugs to promote fusion (which cause sterility in men), the fact that we American doctors fuse…read more
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