Pain management
Pain management involves various strategies to alleviate or control pain, ranging from medications and physical therapy to alternative therapies like acupuncture and mindfulness techniques. Its goal is to improve quality of life by reducing pain intensity and enhancing functionality for individuals experiencing acute or chronic pain.
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Millions of chronic headaches sufferers look to the same injection that cures wrinkles to help their headaches – Botox. For many of these headache patients, Botox allows them to reduce their oral medications. However, is there a dark side to these headache shots? What are the long-term botox headache treatment side effects and should these patients…read more
Steroid Pill Side Effects: Older Women and Oral Steroids are a Bad Mix
Some older women with inflammatory diseases find themselves on oral steroids. These potent drugs reduce swelling, but there are also a bevy of steroid pill side effects. Now a recent study shows that just a few months on these drugs literally eats away at the bone architecture of these women. Oral corticosteroid pills (not bodybuilding…read more Popping that Motrin Pill Could Kill You…
NSAID drugs like Motrin, Ibuprofen, Aleve and Celebrex are so commonly used that they may as well be put in the water supply. Grocery store shelves are lined with them and physicians are taught that they are an important part of controlling pain after an injury. However, what if these drugs were also dangerous? Well,…read more Shoulder Steroid Injection Side Effects: Shocking New Research!
This has been a bad few years for traditional medicine concepts like steroid and anesthetic shots to help relieve pain. Numerous studies have shown that these shots are highly toxic to local tissues. Despite this, physicians continue to deliver millions of these shots per year to unsuspecting patients. Now a new study continues the trend,…read more Shoulder Surgery Bone Spur Removal Causes Problems
I commonly see patients with chronic shoulder pain who have undergone a shoulder surgery bone spur removal to “open up” the shoulder. Known as distal clavicular resection, it’s one of the most commonly performed shoulder surgeries with rotator cuff repair. New research now shows that the surgery doesn’t help and leads to more shoulder instability…read more Neck and Thumb Pain: A Doctor’s Personal Story
Are neck and thumb pain connected? Can a nerve in your neck cause hand arthritis? In the early summer, I had a pinched nerve in my neck and shortly thereafter, on the hand that was getting numb, evidence of early arthritis appeared in that thumb joint. Believe it or not, these two things are quite…read more Spinal Stenosis Injections: Never Trust a Back MRI!
Patients considering spinal stenosis injections often come into the office with back pain with thier MRI CDs, believing that this shiny data disc holds the key to their salvation. This makes sense, as many are desperate at that point, their low back having betrayed them by leaving them unable to do what they need to…read more The Side Effects of Lumbar Radiofrequency Can Be Worse Than the Relief
On this page: What is lumbar radiofrequency? What are the side effects of lumbar radiofrequency? Radiofrequency lesioning is a common treatment for chronic back and neck pain. However, the side effects of lumbar radiofrequency may be worse than the relief it supplies. Let me explain. What Is Lumbar Radiofrequency? Radiofrquency (RF) treatments for low back…read more 
