
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – The Space Coast Pain Institute will host a special open house on Thursday, Sept. 2, in recognition of the American Pain Foundation’s National Pain Awareness Month.
Brevard County's leading source of medical news

Minimally Invasive Lumbar Decompression (MILD) is now a procedure that can be performed on an outpatient basis for individuals suffering with progressive leg pain secondary to spinal canal stenosis due to ligamentum flavum hypertrophy.

Broadly speaking, there are two types of pain. There is nociceptive pain, which is caused by tissue injury or inflammation. This pain tends to be temporary, lessening as the tissues heal. The second type of pain is far more difficult to manage and is called neuropathic pain.

Among the prescription pain medications often misused are opioids, a class of controlled pain-management drugs that contain natural or synthetic chemicals based on morphine, the active component of opium. These narcotics effectively mimic the pain-relieving chemicals that the body produces naturally.

MORE THAN 10 million Americans have knee osteoarthritis, which is the number one cause of disability in the United States.

AS THE lumbar spinal canal narrows, the nerves that go through it are squeezed. This squeezing may cause back pain, leg pain, weakness and numbness.

CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME occurs when the median nerve, which runs from the forearm into the hand, becomes pressed or squeezed at the wrist.

Percutaneous Discectomy is one of the most promising and least traumatic of all the available therapies for degenerative disc disease.

A VIRAL infection of the nerve roots, shingles (varicella zoster) can be very painful. It often causes a rash on one side of the body, the left or right, and is most common in older adults and people with weak immune systems.
|
|
|
Copyright © 2010 SpaceCoastMedicine.com · Privacy Policy · About Us
Recent COmments