Posted on September 29, 2024
The sacroiliac (SI) joints bridge the lumbar spine and the pelvis. These joints bear a great deal of weight and are important in balancing your gait. As part of the pelvis, they undergo many stresses, and like other joints can degenerate. The SI joints are often injured by falls onto the buttock or ...
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Living with chronic pain for years can become the ‘norm’ for some people; an expectation of what life is just like. For people who suffer with debilitating chronic pain, however, the hope of overcoming it never subsides. Fortunately, with modern approaches to pain management, relief from...
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Almost everyone develops low back pain at some point during their life. For most people, it resolves within days or weeks. However, there are many people who develop debilitating low back pain that can last years. Low back pain is technically a symptom complex. It describes the area, but not the sou...
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Peripheral Nerve Stimulation (PNS) is revolutionizing pain management. PNS gives us the ability to treat many types of pain with direct stimulation of the specific nerves that are transmitting pain signals. Ultimately for anything to hurt, the pain signal must be transmitted along nerves going first...
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Living with chronic pain for years can become the ‘norm’ for some people; an expectation of what life is just like. For people who suffer with debilitating chronic pain, however, the hope of overcoming it never subsides. Fortunately, with modern approaches to pain management, relief from...
Read morePosted on September 29, 2024
Marilyn remembers she “couldn’t even walk,” after low back pain became progressively worse. Having had prior treatment for neck pain through Dr. Jonathan Daitch, a board certified Interventional Pain Management physician, she sought his care again. After careful review of diagnosti...
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In patients over the age of 70, the usual cause of sciatica (buttock or leg pain) is from some form of degenerative spinal stenosis (narrowing). This narrowing can be in the CENTRAL spinal canal, or as a result of a PINCHED NERVE as the nerve exits the spinal canal. In some cases, nerve pain occurs...
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“It is not unusual to see patients who have pain coming from more than one source. As an Interventional Pain Management physician, I know that every pain can be lessened or resolved, which is how I approach the care of everyone who comes to us.” states Dr. Jonathan Daitch of Advanced Pai...
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It wasn’t very long ago when Joyce remembers sensing, “My life was over.” Yet, only two weeks after a Sacroplasty procedure, she is driving, walking, gardening and busy in her art studio. Years ago, Joyce sought out Southwest Florida’s Advanced Pain Management & Spine Sp...
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Like the trunk of a tree, the spinal column is the supporting structure of the entire body. This stack of vertebra also houses the spinal cord, a bundle of nerves and fibers that extend from the brain stem to the lower back. Over the years, vertebrae can wear down and even crack or move out...
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