Osteoporosis is diagnosed in over three million people every year and remains a major health concern for 54 million Americans. But despite how widespread this condition is, its “silent” nature makes it difficult to diagnose and treat. Indeed, besides living on a daily basis with osteoporosis pain, patients are often unable to self-diagnose the origin...
When patients have back pain that has been chronic and spreads across the length of the back, it is often difficult for those patients to determine its origin. For many patients with chronic pain that worsens over the years, it may seem practically impossible for a doctor to diagnose their actual condition and cause, much...
Plantar fasciitis is one of those conditions that you don’t usually hear much about until you or someone you know develops it themselves. It’s very painful and debilitating because pain in your feet make it nearly impossible to get around normally and handle the daily activities of life. Since most patients are unfamiliar with it...
Osteoporosis pain is one of the lesser-known pain conditions in the world of chronic pain. Osteoporosis is fairly well known by most people as a condition of fragile thinning bones that creates the risk of bone brakes in patients who have that condition. Aside from the details surrounding the cause and effects of osteoporosis, there...
As I start out most articles on osteoarthritis, (OA) affects almost 33 million adults in the United States alone and more people are diagnosed daily across the nation with this chronic condition. Like peripheral neuropathy, osteoarthritis is a condition that often manifests in the knees, fingers, and toes of patients who have been diagnosed with...
If you’ve ever experienced a true migraine or suffer from chronic recurring headaches that last four hours, you certainly understand the urgency for an effective pain relief and some way to prevent them from occurring. Moderate to intense throbbing pain that fluctuates for hours and sometimes days, debilitating nausea, and sensitivity to light and sound–...
Osteoarthritis is a chronic pain condition and a pervasive medical problem across the world. It is often referred to as a wear and tear condition that continues to progress throughout a patient’s adult life until they are driven to seek treatment. Osteoarthritis often presents in knees, fingers, and toes but most joints are capable of...
TMJ pain is a condition for which a lack of familiarity among many in the medical community may prevent some patients from seeking treatment at all. TMJ pain can be debilitating and create a downward spiral of events that make everything worse. Mouth and jaw pain from TMJ can make it difficult to sleep without...
Even while osteoarthritis (OA) affects roughly ten percent of the U.S. population, many patients who suffer from the condition don’t know or understand their treatment options and often do little to treat it effectively. Whether patients refuse to seek treatment, or they know little about the treatment available, there are related risk factors that can...
Sciatica is a condition that currently affects up to forty percent of the population in the United States. While sciatica is more common in populations fifty and older, it can present in younger populations and persist throughout life as a chronic pain condition. Many people with back and joint pain conditions can expect a high...
