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May13

Types Of Injections For Back Pain

If chronic back pain is limiting your life, spinal injections may offer real relief. Pain and Spine Specialists of Idaho Falls provides safe, image-guided injections like epidural steroids, facet joint injections, and nerve blocks to reduce inflammation, stop pain signals, and avoid surgery. These minimally invasive treatments target the exact source of your pain and…

Mar6

Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation

Dorsal root ganglion stimulation is a minimally invasive, reversible therapy designed to treat chronic pain that hasn’t responded to conservative treatments. It targets specific pain areas—such as the groin, pelvis, knee, and lower limbs—with electrical pulses delivered to nerve cells in the dorsal root ganglia. Patients typically experience significant pain relief, a shorter recovery time,…

Jan20

What Is The Newest Treatment For Spinal Stenosis?

Spinal stenosis causes painful symptoms due to narrowing of the spinal canal. Eventually, this puts immense pressure on the spinal cord and nerve roots. While traditional surgery may help, exciting new treatments for spinal stenosis are minimally invasive. For example, when treating lumbar spinal stenosis, spinal decompression now offers safer, faster relief. Learn when spinal…

Jun13

Relieving a Pinched Nerve Lower Back

If you’ve ever experienced a sharp, shooting pain or a persistent dull ache in your lower back, you might be dealing with a pinched nerve. A pinched nerve occurs when excessive pressure is applied to a nerve by surrounding tissues, leading to symptoms such as pain, tingling, numbness, or weakness. At Pain and Spine Specialists…

Oct20

Understanding and Relieving Big Toe Joint Pain

Big toe joint pain is a condition that can be profoundly debilitating, making everyday activities a challenge. In this comprehensive exploration, we aim to provide a profound understanding of the origins of big toe joint pain. We’ll delve into the multitude of causes, with a particular focus on arthritis, and explore the multifaceted ways in…

Oct17

Easing Lower Back Pain Through Gentle Stretches

Welcome to our comprehensive guide on stretches for lower back pain, designed to provide you with the knowledge you need to find relief and improve your quality of life. It’s essential to remember that before attempting any of these stretches, it’s crucial to consult with your physician or a physical therapist to ensure they are…

May26

What Is Neuropathy?

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Neuropathy is a general term that means “nerve damage.” It refers to a disease or dysfunction of one or more peripheral nerves and it typically causes numbness or weakness but can also give you pain. This is the result of damaged nerves from conditions such as diabetes, autoimmune disease, and cancer. It can be very…

Mar31

What Causes Bone Pain?

Click Here to Contact Us Bone pain can have a severely negative impact on your quality of life. It’s also a likely sign of a serious condition that should be investigated by a doctor. Bone pain is usually deep, penetrating, or dull and may stem from a variety of causes — most often is injury.…

Mar28

Neuropathy Treatment In Pocatello

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Suffering From Neuropathy? We Can Help In this post, we’ll be describing what neuropathy is and the specific ways in which we provide neuropathy treatment in Pocatello. Neuropathy Neuropathy is a condition in which various nerves malfunction. These include: Sensory nerves (resulting in tingling, numbness, and pain) Autonomic nerves (resulting in loss of bladder control,…

Jan23

Understanding The Opioid Crisis

You don’t have to look very far to hear that the United States is in the middle of a national “opioid crisis.” What does this mean? Why is there so much hype about opioids? As you can probably imagine, the national opioid epidemic did not just happen overnight. In fact, it likely started in the…