Nerve Pain

08 Apr How Joint Injections Can Help Chronic Pain

Posted at 09:05h in Back Pain, Injections, Joint Injections, Joint Pain, Neck Pain, Nerve Pain, Pain Conditions, Pain Treatments

It keeps you up at night until you fall asleep from sheer exhaustion. Then you wake up with it as your constant, unfriendly companion. Chronic joint pain can happen to anyone. When it does, it will bring even the strongest individual to tears because of pain, frustration, and general despair. However, you don't have to live on pain pills, and you don't...

02 Mar 7 Signs You Should Visit a Chiropractor

Posted at 12:16h in Back Pain, Chiropractic, Joint Pain, Migraines, Neck Pain, Nerve Pain, Pain Conditions, Pain Treatments

We all know and hate that achy feeling we get. The stiffness in our shoulders or the crick in our neck. We try to take it easier, stretch, and avoid overexertion, all to no avail. If you've gotten to where the pain affects your daily life, a chiropractor might be what you need. There are many reasons people choose to visit...

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02 Feb What Are Epidural Injections?

Posted at 12:31h in Back Pain, Epidural Injections, Injections, Neck Pain, Nerve Pain, Pain Conditions, Pain Treatments

Are you experiencing ongoing neck and/or back pain? Have oral medications, physical therapy, or other treatments failed to help? You may benefit from minimally invasive epidural injections. One meta-analysis looked at randomized-controlled studies about epidural steroid injections (ESI). They reported ESI relieved back pain more effectively than other conservative therapy. Would you like to find out more about these treatments? This epidural...

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08 Dec How Do Ketamine Infusions Work for Pain Management?

Posted at 13:17h in Back Pain, Ketamine Infusions, Nerve Pain, Pain Conditions, Pain Treatments

Are you one of the 20.4 percent of Americans experiencing chronic pain? If so, you probably are looking for chronic pain relief because it disrupts your life. Have you heard about ketamine infusions? This is a popular treatment to help block nerve pain and help you get back to a normal and less painful life. Want to hear more and how it...

02 Nov What Is ARP Wave Therapy and How Does It Work?

Posted at 08:02h in ARP Wave Therapy, Back Pain, Joint Pain, Neck Pain, Nerve Pain, Pain Conditions, Pain Treatments, Sports Injuries, Work-Related Injuries

Over 8 million sports injuries occur each year, and healing can take months for some people. Imagine if there was a faster process to getting back to your normal physical activity. What if that process used electrical currents? In his book, titled "Biologically Closed Electric Circuits," Dr. Bjorn Nordenstrom theorizes that when an injury occurs, a charge forms. Getting rid of...

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04 Aug How to Deal With Post-Surgery Pain

Posted at 15:20h in Back Pain, Joint Pain, Neck Pain, Nerve Pain, Osteoarthritis, Pain Conditions, Sports Injuries, Work-Related Injuries

Have you recently had surgery, or are you planning to have an operation soon? Are you wondering how to manage your post-surgery pain? Sore muscles, swelling, and nerve pain are just a few of the things you might experience after an operation. Believe it or not, you will probably plan for pain management before you even have your surgery. Here's how you...

06 May 10 Treatment Options for Peripheral Neuropathy

Posted at 08:56h in Nerve Pain, Pain Treatments

Peripheral neuropathy is a pain disorder characterized by damage to the peripheral nerves—the system of nerves that reside outside of your central nervous system. These tissues extend outward from the brain and spinal cord to innervate your limbs, muscles, organs, etc. However, these nerves are not invulnerable to damage. Injuries, health conditions, and exposure to toxins may cause harm to these...

06 Apr Treating Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

Posted at 07:49h in Nerve Pain, Pain Conditions

Have you been dealing with abnormal pain or other troubling symptoms following physical trauma or surgery? Do you feel like your injury should be healed already, but the symptoms only keep getting worse? Your symptoms may be due to a relatively rare condition known as complex regional pain syndrome (or CRPS). CRPS occurs when your nerves become damaged as the result...

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22 Jan Advantages of Suboxone Therapy Over Methadone

Posted at 12:20h in Back Pain, Joint Pain, Nerve Pain, Suboxone Therapy

Each year, the abuse of opioids—both medications and illicit drugs like heroin—causes an alarming number of fatal overdoses. According to the CDC, opioids were implicated in nearly 70% of drug overdose deaths in 2018. In fact, between 1999 and 2018, almost 450,000 individuals died from an opioid overdose. That’s nearly half a million families that will never see a loved one...

27 Oct Acute vs. Chronic Pain – What Is the Difference Anyway?

Posted at 05:00h in Back Pain, Joint Pain, Neck Pain, Nerve Pain, Uncategorized

There are no stringent guidelines over when acute pain becomes chronic pain. Integrated Pain Consultants is your leading Phoenix pain clinic and treats acute pain, chronic pain, and the kind of pain that hasn’t “settled” on a definition just yet. Acute pain by definition is shorter and not lifelong. It can be very quick, such as a papercut, or it...