You’ve probably heard talk about CBD, or cannabidiol, if not tried it yourself for any number of conditions it is advertised to help. If you’re wondering what CBD is, if CBD helps control or lessen acute or chronic pain, and how to take or use CBD, you’ve
Does obesity directly cause chronic pain? Well, no, obesity is not a direct cause of pain. However, many conditions that cause chronic pain are far more common in people who are obese, and obesity and chronic pain often exist side by side.
If you’re a patient who has tried all types of conservative treatment, such as physical therapy, medications, injections, nerve blocks, and more, without relief, peripheral nerve stimulation, or PNS, may offer you the pain relief you’ve been searching for.
Tai chi has become a method of stress and anxiety reduction, meditation, and serenity, in addition to being a form of exercise that increases flexibility, balance, and combats a variety of health conditions, including chronic pain.
Whether your back pain is a brand new occurrence or has been lingering for years, there are plenty of treatment options before you should even consider undergoing spine surgery. Talk to one of the doctors at PPP before considering invasive spine surgery.
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome is a condition that causes chronic and debilitating pain. CRPS perplexes many physicians, but the team at Pacific Pain Physicians has been diagnosing and treating this condition successfully for many of their patients.
The doctors at Pacific Pain Physicians have successfully placed hundreds of spinal cord stimulators in their patients. Patients who have had a spinal cord stimulator placed have had remarkable results, with many seeing as much as 70% reduction in pain.
If you’ve been diagnosed with spinal stenosis or are considering undergoing spinal surgery for any condition you have, you should know that there are less invasive and less expensive procedures to help alleviate your pain, such as Vertiflex Superion.
Regenerative Medicine is a branch of medicine focused on the development and application of new treatments to heal and/or restore function to tissues or organs damaged by disease, trauma, age, and degeneration.
Ketamine use is nothing new to the medical community. In fact, its been used as an anesthetic in surgical settings in the U.S. since the 1970’s. However, doctors have discovered new uses for this drug that go beyond its original use as a powerful anestheti
A patient who had been suffering from progressive low back and right sided leg pain attributed to lumbar stenosis at L2-3 underwent a vertiflex spacer with 75% reduction of his pain.
Dr. Daniel Roshan, a Pacific Pain Physician, performed a successful HF-10 spinal cord stimulator implantation. The patient was suffering from Failed Back Surgery Syndrome with chronic low back and leg pain.
Nutrition is an important factor in regulating pain and inflammation in your body. We reached out to an expert in the field of nutrition, Hoda Hakimjavadi, MS, RDN, to get her input on this topic.
Yoga was found to be comparable to physical therapy (PT) in relieving chronic low back pain (LBP) in a controlled study that followed low-income, minority patients for one year after an initial course of treatment.