Space Coast Pain Institute To Host Pain Awareness Open House

Dr. Stan Golovac

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.

Take Walk On the MILD Side

SPINAL CANAL STENOSIS, also known as lumbar spinal stenosis, is now the most commonly diagnosed spinal disease in the U.S. geriatric population. Each year, in the U.S. alone, approximately 1.5 million individuals are diagnosed with the condition.

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.

Cone Snail Venom Effective Remedy For Pain

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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.

The Truth About Opioids

Dr. Stan Golovac

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.

Osteoarthritis Caused By Wear-and-Tear Between the Joints

MORE THAN 10 million Americans have knee osteoarthritis, but early diagnosis and treatment help manage symptoms.  Osteoarthritis is a chronic disease, which means it will never get better and is likely to get worse over time.  The knee pain and immobility are caused by wear-and-tear between the joints.

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

Lumbar Spinal Canal Stenosis Causes Back, Leg Pain

THE LUMBAR SPINAL CANAL is the space in the lower spine that carries nerves to your legs. It is very narrow and gets even narrower if the bone and tissue around it grow over the course of many years. This narrowing is called “stenosis.” Lumbar stenosis is usually a disease of the middle-aged and the elderly.

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 Causes Hand, Wrist Pain

CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME symptoms usually start gradually, with frequent burning, tingling, or itching numbness in the palm of the hand and the fingers, especially the thumb and the index and middle fingers. Some carpal tunnel sufferers say their fingers feel useless and swollen, even though little or no swelling is apparent.

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 Promising Therapy for Degenerative Disc Disease

PERCUTANEOUS DISCECTOMY is a widely accepted treatment for patients with small contained herniations for whom open surgical discectomy offers a poor chance of success. It may also be a promising option for patients with large contained herniations for whom open surgery is not considered an appropriate treatment.

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

Neurostimulation Effective for Chronic Back Pain

SALLY BURKE, a 63-year old karate instructor, has responded very well to spinal cord stimulation. Spinal cord stimulation is actually a subcategory of neurostimulation, which also includes peripheral nerve stimulation.

THE USE OF electrical stimulation to relieve pain began in ancient times with the placement of torpedo fish directly onto painful body parts. Since then, the application of electrical stimulation to the body for pain relief has become much more refined and sophisticated.

Shingles Symptoms Can Be Confusing

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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.

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