It’s a double-edged sword. Your back pain is keeping you from doing the things you love, but you don’t want to have surgery to fix it because you’re afraid recovery will be long, and put you out of commission. It’s the number one concern we hear at our lumbar spine specialty practice in New Jersey.… Continue Reading
When it comes to back pain, the lumbar spine and cervical spine are the two areas that get the most attention, but there is a third section — the thoracic spine — which is located between these two, and which helps support both. The thoracic spine starts at the base of your neck and goes… Continue Reading
Those of us whose work keeps us sitting all day know that by the end of the day, just getting up and walking around can be painful. Though desk jobs and other work that involves sitting was once thought of as ‘cushy’, today we know that it actually carries significant health risks. Though some of… Continue Reading
Do you suffer from chronic shoulder or arm pain? Though you might assume that the pain is coming from the area that hurts, in many cases the source may actually be in your neck. There’s good reason for this phenomenon, which is known as “referred” pain – it happens because the nerves that create sensations… Continue Reading
Some people who experience persistent neck pain seek medical advice immediately: these folks will make an appointment with our cervical pain specialty practice in New Jersey as soon as they realize that their discomfort isn’t abating within a day or two. There are far more, unfortunately who procrastinate about making an appointment. These patients are… Continue Reading
Back pain happens to just about everybody at some point in their lives, and for most of us who go through it once, there’s a good chance we’re going to have it again and again and again. The fact that it is such a common complaint doesn’t mean that it’s a minor thing: chronic back… Continue Reading
If you’re a smoker, then chances are you don’t want or need to hear even one more reason why your habit is doing you harm. But here’s another one anyway. Recent studies point to a link between smoking and chronic back pain, and though the reasons aren’t fully understood yet, it seems clear that the… Continue Reading
When our backs hurt, we tend to assume that we did some kind of damage. We all know someone with a herniated disc, so it’s natural for that to be the first thing we think of when we start to feel pain ourselves. But for almost three million of us, the problem is actually an… Continue Reading
Back and neck pain. If you’ve never experienced it, you simply have no real idea of what an estimated 80% of your fellow adults go through, or how debilitating it can be. Once you have experienced it, you’ll never forget it and take on a whole new level of empathy with your fellow sufferers. But… Continue Reading
If you have personally experienced the pain of a herniated disk, then you know how debilitating that injury can be. So, imagine going through the same thing when you’re a professional basketball player. That is exactly what happened to Phoenix Mercury star Diana Taurasi. According to an interview published in the Arizona Republic, Taurasi was… Continue Reading