I have recently had a few patients that have called my office and they have said, “ I want to get another MRI to compare to my last MRI that was 6 months ago before I start treatment.” So often, patients feel that an MRI is going to give them answers as what is going […]
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Have you ever hurt and then you get medications or you get injections and it does not work. Or you felt good for a 2-6 weeks and your pain returned. This is common because we feel pain 3 different ways – thermal (burns, sun burns), Chemical (inflammation), and mechanical (the mechanics are the problem). Drugs
I spoke with a recent potential patient. We had spoken several times and I was telling him surgery was not the route he should go with his back pain based off a few questions. He could tell me what made him worse and what made him better. He was told he had stenosis and degenerative
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So often I hear my patients tell me that they hurt and the are going to rest for a while and then they should be good to be back to running or playing sports, or what ever they want to get back to doing. Or they go to the doctor and the doctor tells them
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I can not tell you how many patients that find us and they are told they have arthritis and are not sure that anything can be done about that. It is a word that is all about fear because the patient feels their is nothing they can do about it besides taking medications, getting injections
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I know we have talked about MRI’s and X-Rays and how this can mislead us in doing a procedure that we may or may not need. For example, you have pain in the knee. Your x- rays show that you have arthritis, the healthcare provider says that your pain is due to arthritis so lets
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So often in our present Healthcare system we are spending less and less time with the patients asking questions and really understanding what is truly going on and where the source of the problem is located. Instead, we are doing a lot of testing which is not reliable all the time. In some offices, it
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Over 80% of people will experience debilitating back pain at one point in their lifetime. Over 1 Billion dollars is spent on back pain yearly, which shows we put more time and money into caring for our backs during those times when we are feeling bad, verses spending a little time on our back care when we
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I get so many patients that have either come into my office after a month of rest and are frustrated that they still hurt. Or they reach out to me to get my opinion on what is going on, and are then told by their doctor that they need to just take some medication and rest or just
So often I see many of my patients that come into my office and they show me what they are doing and how they are stretching and wondering why they are not getting better. Some have pain and others just want to get back to yoga or exercising but feel retricted and this restriction is
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