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  • Symptoms & Causes Of Chronic Pain

    Symptoms & Causes Of Chronic Pain

    Chronic pain is pain that lasts longer than 3 to 6 months. Under the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) by The World Health Organization (WHO), chronic pain is defined as: “pain that persists past normal healing time and hence lacks the acute warning function of physiological nociception.” Nociception simply refers to how our bodies detect pain and send pain messages.

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  • Pain Management: Work-Related Injuries

    Pain Management: Work-Related Injuries

    What are the Most Common Work-Related Injuries? While a workplace injury often brings to mind images of a construction worker negotiating dangerous scaffolding, the fact is that workplace injuries can happen anywhere, including the office. Computer wires or open file drawers have their own hidden dangers, making any workplace a potentially hazardous environment.

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  • Regenerative Medicine: Stem Cell Therapy

    Regenerative Medicine: Stem Cell Therapy

    About Stem Cell Therapy - Stem cells are found inside different types of tissue in the body. They are self-renewing and act as a repair system in the body. However, when the body gets injured, it may not be able to create enough stem cells to treat the appropriate area. This is why the interventional pain management specialist provides stem cell therapy in order to supply these cells to injured and painful joints, nerves, tendons, and muscles in order to promote healing and diminish any existing pain.

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  • Dance Movement Therapy and Chronic Pain

    Dance Movement Therapy and Chronic Pain

    What Is Dance Movement Therapy (DMT)? Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) utilizes the mind-body connection, using movement to express emotions. Dance and movement can be integrated into many types of therapies but DMT is a specific therapy focused around dance. DMT is defined by the American Dance Therapy Association as, “the psychotherapeutic use of movement to promote emotional, social, cognitive, and physical integration of the individual, to improve health and well-being.”

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  • Pain Management: Nerve Injuries

    Pain Management: Nerve Injuries

    What are the Most Common Nerve Injuries? Your central nervous system in your brain and spinal cord branches out and reaches every square inch of your body through your peripheral nerves, where most nerve injuries occur. Any time you cut or burn yourself, you damage the tiny nerves in the affected area. Mostly, these neural pathways recover and grow back very quickly. With larger injuries, however, the damage can be far more significant, causing chronic and serious problems with function and pain.

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  • Pain Management: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

    Pain Management: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

    What is Carpal Tunnel Syndrome? Carpal tunnel syndrome occurs when the median nerve in your wrist becomes squeezed. There can be different elements causing this pressure on the median nerve, but regardless of what is applying pressure, they all fall under carpal tunnel syndrome.

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  • Hydrotherapy and Chronic Pain

    Hydrotherapy and Chronic Pain

    What Is Hydrotherapy? Hydrotherapy involves the patient being in a heated pool of water, and carrying out specific exercises. The water is usually heated between 33 and 36 degrees Celsius. This is warmer than a typical swimming pool. In some cases, the water may be cooled rather than heated, to treat specific medical conditions.

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  • Pain Management: Radiofrequency Ablation

    Pain Management: Radiofrequency Ablation

    What is Radiofrequency Ablation? In a radiofrequency ablation procedure, your pain management specialist generates a heat lesion on your nerves, interrupting the pain signals those nerves are sending to your brain. If you’ve tried steroid injections, physical therapy, and anti-inflammatory medications, and you’re still left with chronic low back or neck pain, RFA may offer you much-needed relief.

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  • Pain Management: Rotator Cuff Injuries

    Pain Management: Rotator Cuff Injuries

    What Is the Rotator Cuff? A rotator cuff is a group of muscles and tendons that envelop the upper part of your arm bone; they work by attaching the head of the humerus to the shoulder. Four muscles are responsible for attaching your shoulder to your arm. These are the subscapularis, infraspinatus, supraspinatus, and teres minor. This entire system is very delicately balanced as it is responsible for an extensive range of motion and essential control over the arm.

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  • Myths of Chronic Pain

    Myths of Chronic Pain

    As anyone with chronic pain knows, there is a lot of misinformation out there that can make it extremely difficult to know what is true and what is false. We’ve compiled a list of the top 12 myths of chronic pain. A better understanding of pain is a key step in helping you to better treat it.
    1. Medication Is The Only Thing That Helps - When people hear ‘chronic pain’ and have never suffered through it, they tend to think it’s as easy as popping a couple of painkillers and taking it easy for a few days. However, that is not the case at all.

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