Spinal surgery of any kind can be somewhat intimidating. There seem to be many things to think about as surgery day approaches. One of the first questions that patients often have is how long it may take them to recover from their procedure. We can do our best to answer this question on a case …Read More
Back and neck pain are common complaints among adults of all ages. Typically, we associate spinal pain with injury or age-related degeneration of the joints and muscles in the body. Rarely do we correlate chronic neck or back pain with general health conditions like diabetes. According to recent research out of Australia, we may have …Read More
Pain is a common experience for millions of adults. Back and neck pain are two of the most frequently-expressed complaints in doctor’s offices across the country. Back pain is also one of the most prevalent reasons given for missing work. With all of this pain floating around, you’d think you would have no problem describing …Read More
Most of the time, we perceive arthritis as the condition that causes our joints to feel stiff and achy. For some people, the inflammation of arthritis presents symptoms such as a burning sensation up the spine. We refer to this as ankylosing spondylitis. Because this arthritic condition usually first affects the lumbar spine, and because …Read More
Pain anywhere along the spine can be difficult not only on a physical level but also mentally. The word that comes to mind may be “exhausting.” We couldn’t agree more. As an orthopedic specialty practice, we see the consequences of back and neck pain on a daily basis. It is understandable that, even when pain …Read More
We spend a large majority of our time each day at our job. When that job involves sitting at a desk, which is does for nearly 90% of Americans, we may easily forget that there are aspects of the movement that may put us at risk for cervical injury. Here, we touch on just two …Read More
Neck pain is a real pain, to be blunt! This is especially so if you start to notice that you are uncomfortable more often than not. We cannot tell you how many people we meet who express that their discomfort begins the moment they open their eyes in the morning, and how much more say …Read More
Neck injuries affect hundreds of thousands of people each year. As if the initial injury is not bad enough, many people who experience pain from irritation to the cervical spine complain that certain situations seem to make their discomfort worse. What situations? Stressful ones! Does Stress-related Neck Pain start in the Head? Chronic or even …Read More
A neck injury is something that, if asked, we would all say we hope to avoid. Any amount of damage to the intricate structures of the cervical spine could lead to chronic head and neck pain, and even symptoms that seem completely unrelated. While you may feel as though you place priority on taking good …Read More
