Spine and Pain Management

Spine and Pain Management

Pain affects every aspect of your life. It can challenge or change the activities you choose to do, the thoughts you have and even the sleep you get. This is because, in addition to your physical discomfort, pain can affect your mental and emotional health — increasing your stress and frustration, sapping your motivation and activity levels, and contributing to fatigue.
Back pain is one of the most common reasons people go to the doctor or miss work, and it is a leading cause of disability worldwide.
Fortunately, you can take measures to prevent or relieve most back pain episodes. If prevention fails, simple home treatment and proper body mechanics often will heal your back within a few weeks and keep it functional. Surgery is rarely needed to treat back pain.

 

Symptoms

Back pain can range from a muscle aching to a shooting, burning or stabbing sensation. In addition, the pain may radiate down your leg or worsen with bending, twisting, lifting, standing or walking.

 

Diangnosis 

Your doctor will examine your back and assess your ability to sit, stand, walk and lift your legs. Your doctor might also ask you to rate your pain on a scale of zero to 10 and talk to you about how well you're functioning with your pain.
If there is reason to suspect that a specific condition is causing your back pain, your doctor might order one or more tests:
- X-ray
- MRI or CT scans
- Blood tests
- Bone scan

 

Spine and Chronic Pain Treatment at NEUROMED

Depending on the severity of your back pain, your doctor might recommed many types of treatment such as medications, physical therapy, inovasive procedures or even a surgery.
The range of surgery at the clinic includes treatments for very common spinal diseases like slipped discs, narrowing of the spinal canal (spinal canal stenosis), instabilities and malpositions such as spondylolisthesis (slipped vertebrate or vertebral slipping), scoliosis, spinal cord, and spinal injuries.

 

 

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