Unlike some surgeries, such as removing a tooth or repairing a torn ligament, back surgery is not as cut and dried. Pain is a tricky thing, and even under the best circumstances with the various possible back surgeries, spine surgery is no more than 95 percent predictive of successfully removing the patient’s pain. When a …
If you’re over the age of 45 or 50, odds are you have arthritis. You read that right, but it’s not the type you think of where a person’s joints become so painful it’s hard to function. That’s rheumatoid arthritis. Most all of us who been active in our lives have some degree of another …
We all have knots in our muscles at some point. These are usually caused by continued stress or tension or from overuse. Not actually knots, of course, these are caused when a muscle won’t relax. Dr. Trujillo uses trigger point injections to help patients deal with the pain caused by these contracted muscles. Trigger point …
