Latest Radicular pain Stories
Houston Area Physicians to Offer New Options for Back Pain Treatment HOUSTON, May 31, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Finding relief from sciatica is imperative, and Gulf Coast Spine Care offers proven, effective treatment options for these individuals. Recently, the medical center has started offering additional treatment options for the benefit of its patients who suffer from this condition, and these treatments have provided patients with considerable improvement to their quality of...
CuraLase Therapy is an unconventional, yet effective treatment for back pain sufferers; now available in multiple locations. Myrtle Beach, SC (PRWEB) February 27, 2013 Statistics show 8 out of every 10 adults will suffer with back pain at some time in their life. This includes sciatica and lumbar pain. The treatment options vary. They range from simple changes in daily activity to non-invasive treatments and sometimes advance to surgery, none of which have guarantees of success. The...
Top spine specialist Dr. Kaixuan Liu explains practice expansion. West Orange, NJ (PRWEB) September 05, 2012 Atlantic Spine Center, a national leader in endoscopic spine surgery, announces the opening of its new offices at 475 Prospect Avenue, Suite 110, West Orange, NJ 07052, 973-419-0200. http://www.atlanticspinecenter.com. “The new offices are large and comfortable, allowing for maximum convenience for our patients,” notes Dr. Kaixuan Liu, MD, PhD, chief surgeon and founder of...
Lower back pain due to Modic changes can be hard to treat and the currently recommended therapy of exercise and staying active often does not help alleviate the pain. Results of a trial, published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine, comparing exercise therapy, and staying active, to daily rest and lumbar support, showed that both treatments resulted in the same small level of improvement in pain, disability, and general health. Modic changes (MC) in the spine, where the...
PALM SPRINGS, Calif., Feb 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two different interventional approaches in the conservative care of radiculopathic low back pain were presented in a poster today at the 28th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. Results from a small study showed that patients receiving interlaminar lumbar epidural steroid injections (LESI), by either the midline (MIL) approach or the parasagittal (PIL) approach had significant improvement in pain...
The use of epidural steroid injections may be a more efficient treatment option for lumbar disc herniations, according to research presented today at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Specialty Day in San Francisco. "Our study showed an 89% success rate in athletes returning to play after suffering an injury during practice or a game," commented lead author Aaron J. Krych, MD, from the Mayo Clinic's Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. "These injections are a safe...
The spine experts at ProRehab deliver hands-on, manual physical therapy to help patients reduce or eliminate pain from sciatica and avoid surgery. A recent British Medical Journal study cites that patients who had spinal surgery to treat sciatica only had short term back pain relief. After six months, patients who had surgery for sciatica felt no different than patients who received physical therapy only. Evansville, IN (Vocus/PRWEB) January 13, 2011 The spine experts at ProRehab...
54 percent of patients achieve pain relief after 1 month of treatmentA recent study from Australian researchers determined that transforaminal injection of steroids was a viable alternative to surgery for lumbar radicular pain due to disc herniation. Full details of the study appear in the August issue of Pain Medicine, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Australian and New Zealand College of...
For patients suffering from small lumbar disc herniations, a new treatment option can provide relief, according to an expert at Baylor College of Medicine.The procedure, called a percutaneous discectomy, enables physicians to go through the skin with a needle, guided by fluoroscopy or X-ray, to get into the disc and remove part of the herniated disc material, explained Dr. Benoy Benny, assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation and director of the spine, sports and pain...
A comparison of surgical treatments for sciatica finds that the minimally invasive procedure known as tubular diskectomy does not provide a significant difference in improvement of functional disability compared to the more common surgery, conventional microdiskectomy, according to a study in the July 8 issue of JAMA.Sciatica or lumbosacral radicular syndrome affects millions of individuals worldwide and is typically caused by disk herniation. Surgery is offered to patients with persistent...
