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What Causes Back Pain?
As a physician who has seen thousands of patients with back pain, there are many causes. These include disc problems where the disc is painful or can be damaged causing a bulge or herniation. Back...
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Back Pain Relief
Back pain relief strats with a specific diagnosis. You can’t get back pain relief without knowing what’s causing the back pain. Once the structure causing the back pain is known, back pain relief is...
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Chronic Back Pain
Chronic back pain has multiple causes. Often these patients are placed on narcotic medications to treat chronic back pain. Other common options offered to chronic back pain sufferers include low back...
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Mid Back Pain
Mid back pain is defined as pain in the thoracic spine. The causes of mid back pain are very similar to the causes of low back pain. As a result, many of the treatment options are similar. These...
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Fix Back Disks without Surgery
The low back has disks that act as cushions between the back bones. In order to fix back disks without surgery, the disk has to be repairedin some way. This is because as we ageor the disks are...
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Adverse Effects from Epidural Steroid Injections
Epidural steroid injections have become a mainstay of treating herniated discs (sciatica). As a interventional pain specialist I’ve seen them work well to avoid surgery hundreds of times. However,...
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Lumbar Epidural Steroid Injections + Fish Oil
As a doctor who treats patients with back pain and sciatica all day, lumbar epidural injections + fish oil is a great and powerful combination that I use on my own intermittent left S1 disc/nerve...
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Are Adult Stem Cells Drugs?
Adult stem cells live in all of us. They come in various types, the most commonly mentioned in therapy being hematopoetic and mesenchymal stem cells. Mesenchymal stem cells are released by your body...
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If my own stem cells can repair my back, why are they drugs?
It’s been known for sometime that adult stem cells (the type in your body) can repair your low back discs (at least in animals). While surgery will only weaken these discs, stem cells can repair them?...
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Back Fusion Denial
Today I examined a patient who was planning an L5-S1 low back fusion, but received a back fusion denial from his insurance company. This may have saved his back! As a result of the back fusion denial...
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