Chronic low back pain, osteoarthritic knee pain, and BPH-related pain may improve with interventional radiology approaches. Highlights from the 2023 Society of Interventional Radiology Annual Scientific Meeting. Whether in primary care or specialty pain management, physicians hear pain-related complaints every day, multiple times a day.
There are many ways to treat and self-manage your pain which can be very effective. Unfortunately, sometimes even when pain is well managed you may experience a flare in symptoms. The question is, what are you supposed to do if a flare in your symptoms becomes so bad that it’s unbearable? Let’s take a look at how you can cope with this situation.
If the thought of surgery leaves you cold, you’re not alone. Many people opt for less invasive measures to relieve pain, including nerve blocks.
What is a Nerve Block? The human nervous system is an amazingly vast and complex network controlled by the brain and governs almost every action you take in life, from luxuriating in soft sheets to snatching your hand away from an open flame.
Research illustrates the value of early intervention to address repeated joint inflammation and prevent disease progression. Long-term localized joint swelling was significantly associated with the progression of joint damage in rheumatoid arthritis, based on data from more than 400 individuals.
If you have pain that radiates through your limbs, a root block goes straight to the source of the problem, where the nerve begins. The team of interventional pain management specialists helps patients find relief from debilitating pain that can have a major quality-of-life impact.
What Conditions Can a Root Block Help? The core of your nervous system runs through your spine and branches off along the way, sending peripheral nerves throughout your body. When there’s a problem close to home or the root you may feel the pain, numbness, and tingling radiate through your peripheral nerves, affecting your limbs.
Study finds that the risk of dementia and loss of hippocampal volume increase as the number of pain sites increases. Chronic pain is known to be associated with dementia, and many studies have explored the connection. For example, a large study published in 2021 looked at data from 9,000 patients, going back in some cases as long as 27 years.
The research available indicates that while trauma may not directly cause chronic pain, it certainly makes people more vulnerable to developing chronic pain. There are many studies that link chronic pain to trauma. The Institute for Chronic Pain states that up to 90% of women with fibromyalgia and up to 60% of patients with arthritis report trauma at some stage in their lives.
You never know much you rely on something until pain takes it out of action. This is especially true of your hand or your wrist. Interventional pain specialists help patients overcome the debilitating effects that stem from hand and wrist pain. If you’re having difficulty going about your daily routines because of hand or wrist pain, you need to schedule an appointment.
Atogepant is added to the growing class of CGRP receptor antagonists to prevent episodic and chronic migraine in adults. People living with chronic migraine have a new oral option in the form of atogepant tablets. The FDA has approved an expanded indication of atogepant (Qulipta) to include the prevention of chronic migraine in adults, according to a statement from manufacturer AbbVie.
Managing flare-ups is part of living with chronic pain. Here are 7 tips on how to avoid and cope with these challenging situations so you can avoid the ER! When you live with chronic pain, it becomes part of your life. Every day, it’s there, and you deal with it. That’s the nature of the beast. However, when the beast becomes unruly, and you experience a flare-up of your condition, managing that intense spike in pain can be challenging. A lot of times, pain sufferers turn to the ER to control their pain.
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