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Modifications to your lifestyle are often the first line of defense when keeping pain in check. Additionally, to support your long-term health and comfort, these changes are frequently incorporated into aftercare following the treatments available at our offices. Being overweight or obese is associated with myriad medical conditions, including an increased risk of developing chronic pain. Consider how losing just one pound can lift approximately five pounds of extra stress from your knees.

In addition to sound, healthy weight loss, special exercises and stretches may be recommended. These exercises are appropriate for your situation. Physical activity helps reduce pain sensitivity, inflammation, and stiffness by building muscle strength and flexibility. Also, deep breathing and mindfulness techniques can have a positive effect by easing muscle tension.

Radicular pain refers to symptoms that affect the root of a spinal nerve. Radiculopathy refers to those conditions that cause spinal nerve root pain. They include herniated discs, trauma, bone spurs, and the aging process and natural degeneration – basically, anything that compresses or irritates the nerve roots of the spine can result in radiculopathy.

Often, these patients can benefit from epidural steroid injections. A type of nerve block, these injections are applied to the sheath that surrounds the affected nerve root. Once injected, this medicine reduces irritation and inflammation to improve the severity and frequency of pain. Some patients with arthritis of the facet joints that connect the vertebrae or bones of the spine benefit from therapeutic facet joint blocks or radiofrequency ablation. The former treatment involves injecting a numbing medicine to ease inflammation and pain, while the latter uses RF energy (radio waves) to disrupt the medial branch nerve. So, pain signals cannot be transmitted from the damaged facet joint to the brain.