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.

Pain Awarness Invitation to Physicians

pain-sponsors

For many physicians, finding a path to relief for chronic pain patients can be challenging. Oral opioids provide short-term control, but they may be accompanied by side effects and other risks.

What a Pain in the Rear

The pain from pyriformis syndrome is most often felt in the hip and buttocks.

Pyriformis syndrome is a condition characterized by abnormal tension or spasm of a muscle in the buttocks called the pyriformis muscle. The tensions in the muscle may lead to irritation of the sciatic nerve.

Radiofrequency Ablation Alleviates Chronic Pain

pain-58-w

Dr. Tejash Dungarani, of Health First Physicians Pain Management practice in Cocoa Beach, specializes in radiofrequency ablation, or “zapping,” of nerves in order to alleviate patients’ chronic pain.

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

Dr. Gayles

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.

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.

Switch to our mobile site