An epidural steroid injection is performed to help reduce the inflammation and pain associated with nerve root compression. Nerve roots can be compressed by a herniated disc, spinal stenosis, and bone spurs. When the nerve is compressed it becomes inflamed. This can...
When neck pain is persistent it deserves a systematic physical examination to determine the presence of structural damage and/or neural involvement. Medicus Pain and Spine, PLC, with offices in Bloomfield Hills and Plymouth Michigan is the practice of Richard K....
Medial branch nerves are small nerves that feed out from the facet joints in the spine, and therefore carry pain signals from those joints. A medial branch nerve block temporarily interrupts the pain signal being carried from a specific facet joint.
Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is a procedure that uses an electrical current to treat chronic pain. A small pulse generator, implanted in the back, sends electrical pulses to the spinal cord. These pulses interfere with the nerve impulses that make you feel pain....
Kyphoplasty is a minimally invasive surgical procedure used for treating a compression fracture resulting from osteoporosis. Spinal compression fractures that occur as a result of osteoporosis are actually quite common, occurring in approximately 750,000 people in the...
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