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Pain Management | Stem Cell, PRP, Acupuncture in Queens & Long Island, New York
About Stem Cell Therapy - Stem cells are found inside different types of tissue in the body. They are self-renewing and act as a repair system in the body. However, when the body gets injured, it may not be able to create enough stem cells to treat the appropriate area. This is why the interventional pain management specialist provides stem cell therapy in order to supply these cells to injured and painful joints, nerves, tendons, and muscles in order to promote healing and diminish any existing pain.
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What Is Dance Movement Therapy (DMT)? Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) utilizes the mind-body connection, using movement to express emotions. Dance and movement can be integrated into many types of therapies but DMT is a specific therapy focused around dance. DMT is defined by the American Dance Therapy Association as, “the psychotherapeutic use of movement to promote emotional, social, cognitive, and physical integration of the individual, to improve health and well-being.”
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What are the Most Common Nerve Injuries? Your central nervous system in your brain and spinal cord branches out and reaches every square inch of your body through your peripheral nerves, where most nerve injuries occur. Any time you cut or burn yourself, you damage the tiny nerves in the affected area. Mostly, these neural pathways recover and grow back very quickly. With larger injuries, however, the damage can be far more significant, causing chronic and serious problems with function and pain.
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What is Carpal Tunnel Syndrome? Carpal tunnel syndrome occurs when the median nerve in your wrist becomes squeezed. There can be different elements causing this pressure on the median nerve, but regardless of what is applying pressure, they all fall under carpal tunnel syndrome.
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What Is Hydrotherapy? Hydrotherapy involves the patient being in a heated pool of water, and carrying out specific exercises. The water is usually heated between 33 and 36 degrees Celsius. This is warmer than a typical swimming pool. In some cases, the water may be cooled rather than heated, to treat specific medical conditions.
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What is Radiofrequency Ablation? In a radiofrequency ablation procedure, your pain management specialist generates a heat lesion on your nerves, interrupting the pain signals those nerves are sending to your brain. If you’ve tried steroid injections, physical therapy, and anti-inflammatory medications, and you’re still left with chronic low back or neck pain, RFA may offer you much-needed relief.
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As anyone with chronic pain knows, there is a lot of misinformation out there that can make it extremely difficult to know what is true and what is false. We’ve compiled a list of the top 12 myths of chronic pain. A better understanding of pain is a key step in helping you to better treat it.
1. Medication Is The Only Thing That Helps - When people hear ‘chronic pain’ and have never suffered through it, they tend to think it’s as easy as popping a couple of painkillers and taking it easy for a few days. However, that is not the case at all.
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Let’s begin by saying that interventional treatments can help you find relief from cancer pain. Even when opioids don’t help, or you want to reduce opioid use, our customized cancer pain management provides substantial relief. It’s important to focus on that hope for pain relief because the reality surrounding cancer pain the things you may not know — can be distressing and discouraging. But learning about cancer pain can help you (or your loved one with cancer) prepare for what’s ahead.
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Shin splints are the term used to describe the pain along the tibia that occurs with physical exertion. It is a catch-all term used to describe the pain that ranges from the knee to the ankle, from muscle pain to tenderness and soreness in the inner part of the leg, dull aches in the front of the leg, and swelling of the lower leg. Usually, the medical term used is medial tibial stress syndrome or MTSS.
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The landscape of chronic pain is changing all the time. Advances in science, medicine, and technology mean that more is being uncovered about how pain affects us, what causes it, and most importantly how we can manage it. But given that these types of advancements can occur so rapidly, it can be hard to keep up with the latest. So, here are the most recent, most exciting advances in pain science, and how they can help chronic pain sufferers.
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