Back surgery is an essential tool to help those suffering from chronic back pain. Recent technological advances have allowed for the rise of minimally invasive procedures, meaning smaller incisions, shorter recovery times, and a more favorable long-term prognosis. But, for some people, back surgery doesn’t always provide the necessary benefits and can cause chronic back …
While an aching back can put a damper on your summer plans, it shouldn’t mean you have to put your summer on hold. In addition to other health benefits, keeping an active lifestyle can help you manage back aches. Here are some ways to help keep back pain at bay and enjoy fun in the …
Back pain is about as universal a condition as us homo sapiens have. Sooner or later over 80 percent of us will have back pain. Who said getting up off our arms and onto two feet was a good idea? At Summit Healthcare Pain Clinic Associates, we see all sorts of back pain due to …
If there is one thing about humans that is almost universal, it would be back pain. Studies have shown that sooner or later over 80 percent of us will have some degree of back pain. While it may have seemed like a good idea at the time, maybe getting up off our hands and arms …
In this month’s first blog we delved into three criteria you need to use when either shopping for a new office chair or lobbying for one with the company purchasing manager. This kind of attention to your chair and how it impacts your back is even more important if you’re one of the millions of …
At Summit Healthcare Pain Clinic, Dr. Trujillo sees patients with chronic back pain pretty much every day. It’s estimated that four out of five people will have some period of serious back pain in their lives. Back pain is the third most common reason for visits to the doctor, behind only skin disorders and osteoarthritis/joint …
Most issues that lead to chronic pain with your spine arise from either the cervical spine (neck), the C1-C7 vertebrae, or the lumbar spine (lower back), L1-L5 vertebrae. But osteoporosis can affect the thoracic spine. This is the middle of your back, vertebrae T1-T12, and this is where spinal compression fractures are more common. Dr. …
Standing desks are all the rage in the workplace. They’ve been linked to weight loss, less back pain, and possibly lower anxiety levels. But are all of those benefits necessarily true? Sure, it makes sense that standing and moving would burn lots more calories than sitting, but does it? A 2016 study in the Journal …
The bane of having a cell phone is the unknown callers offering all sorts of bogus schemes. You answer the call, hear the bogus threats of IRS imprisonment or other calamity, and then what do you do to that number? Block it. That’s kind of how Dr. Trujillo looks at problematic nerves in your neck. …
Our spine is made up of vertebrae with large bone discs in the front and two facet joints in the back. Each of these functions as a three-joint complex, a tripod design that enables the vertebrae to stay together but to also bend and twist. When everything works well, it’s an amazing support system for …
