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Pain Permanent?
Is Back Pain Permanent? It’s a feeling of constant agony, always present in the background of life. No matter what you do, the back pain never truly goes away. It’s a burden you carry everywhere, weighing you down and making even the simplest tasks...
Osteoporosis and Kyphosis: Is There a Link Between the Two Conditions?
Your spine consists of small bones called vertebrae. Vertebrae protect your spinal cord and provide stability to your upper body. However, various conditions can affect your spine, including osteoporosis and kyphosis. Discover whether there’s a...
What Happens if Spinal Stenosis Is Not Treated?
Spinal stenosis is a chronic condition that can cause chronic pain in different parts of your body. Read on to discover what happens if you don’t treat spinal stenosis and where to find the right treatment. What Is Spinal Stenosis? Spinal stenosis...
Chiropractic Care for Spondylolisthesis
Back pain is one of the most common complaints among people coming to a chiropractic office. Luckily, there are numerous successful chiropractic care approaches that can help people overcome back pains and aches. However, it’s not always easy to...
Is the VertiFlex Procedure Effective for Pain Relief?
Discover how the VertiFlex procedure works and whether it is an effective aid for pain relief.What Is the VertiFlex Procedure? The VertiFlex procedure is a minimally-invasive FDA-approved treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis. It requires the...
What Are the Symptoms of Spinal Stenosis?
Spinal stenosis is a condition that affects your spine, causing the narrowing of your spinal canal. Your spine supports your body and allows you to walk upright. It consists of vertebrae, which are bones that provide stability and protect your...
How Does the VertiFlex Procedure Work?
If you live with lumbar spinal stenosis, your doctor may have recommended a VertiFlex procedure to ease the symptoms and make your life easier. After all, living with chronic back pain can make even everyday tasks quite daunting, significantly...
How to Relieve Radiculopathy
Radiculopathy is a medical condition where a pinched nerve in your spine causes back or neck pain. It is more common in older adults because disorders that can pinch or irritate a nerve are more prevalent among the elderly. That includes herniated...
What Causes Kyphosis?
Discover the Most Common Causes of Kyphosis Kyphosis is a spinal condition characterized by an abnormal curvature forward in the upper spine, which causes a hunchback. The most common symptoms include back pain, stiffness, and neck aches.People...
What Is Radiculopathy and What Causes It?
Radiculopathy is one of the conditions causing neck or back pain. We all know how difficult it can be to deal with back pain, and it can take weeks or months to get it under control. Some conditions even cause chronic consequences, where the only...
How to Treat Kyphosis
Kyphosis is a spinal condition characterized by an excessive spine curvature forward. The result is a round or hunched back that can affect your posture and make it difficult to perform certain activities. However, being diagnosed with kyphosis is...
What Can Cause Lower Back Pain in Women?
Lower back pain is one of the most common health complaints, and research shows that 1 in 4 Americans experienced it in the last three months. Most cases are only acute and resolve within days or weeks. However, it’s important to mention that lower...
What Is the Best Treatment for Neuropathy?
Imagine feeling pain in your body all the time. Unfortunately, that is how people with neuropathy feel every day. This condition results from nerve damage caused by injury, infection, or health disorders. The best treatment approach depends on each...
How Does Scoliosis Affect Your Body?
Our spine has a natural curvature that supports movement, improves flexibility, and decreases pressure on our backs. Scoliosis is a condition that increases the curvature of the spine, shifting it more to the left and right. Some estimates show...
What Not to Do When You Have a Herniated Disc
A herniated disc can cause mild to severe back pain that significantly affects your life. People with this condition seek appropriate medical treatments, and they often explore various approaches to find the best solution to their back pain....
Can Sciatica Cause Foot Pain?
When you experience foot pain, you rarely suspect your back as a culprit. However, sciatica is a problematic disorder that can cause shooting pain down through your leg. This condition occurs when something affects the sciatic nerve, which extends...
What’s the Difference Between a Headache and a Migraine?
Almost half of the adult population has experienced a headache in the previous year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). If your head’s been killing you and you feel the intense pressure in this area, it may be hard to differentiate...
Does Cracking Your Knuckles Cause Arthritis?
If you like to crack your knuckles, there is a good chance people around you are annoyed by this habit. They might have even told you that it is bad for your fingers and could cause arthritis. But is it true? Can cracking your knuckles really cause...
Pain Specialists in Webster and Baytown Texas
Chronic pain can be very debilitating for a person, not only because of the extended duration of the pain, but also because this type of pain usually does not respond well to classic treatments based on anti-inflammatory drugs and painkillers. This...
What is a bursitis?
A bursitis is the inflammation of the bursa, or the small sac found inside some joints of the human body that contains a small amount of fluid, functioning as a kind of cushion for the structures that make up the joint: muscles, tendons, and bones....
Types of back pain
Being one of the most frequent conditions pertaining to the musculoskeletal system, back pain easily can become a chronic pain, which can affect the person's quality of life. For this same reason, it is important to know the cause and type of back...
Types and causes of sciatic pain
Undoubtedly, sciatica, or the pain produced by the involvement of the sciatic nerve, is one of the most disabling. It is usually described as a moderate to severe pain in the upper buttock and the right or left lower limb, accompanied by numbness,...
What to know about peripheral neuropathy?
Our nervous system uses nerves and ganglions that are in the periphery of our body to receive and send relevant information through these pathways. When these are affected we could be in front of a medical condition, which for many is a...
Main causes of back pain
One of the most frequent conditions in the human being, as far as the musculoskeletal system is concerned, is back pain. It is one of those things that we will all suffer from at least once in our lives. From minor discomfort to severe and constant...
Peripheral neuropathy: treatment and precautions
Being the peripheral neuropathy the dysfunction of any of the nerves of the peripheral nervous system that can be due to multiple causes and that also presents diverse manifestations, selecting the best therapeutic plan for this condition can be...
Sciatica treatment methods
Undoubtedly, sciatica, or the pain produced by the involvement of the sciatic nerve, is one of the most disabling, requiring prompt resolution through a correct treatment plan. For most patients with sciatica, conventional conservative treatments...
Sciatica Pain
Many of us have experienced leg pain or pain shooting into our legs. Most commonly, a minor injury to a muscle, tendon, or joint could cause shooting leg pain. Still, sometimes the reason might be a pinched nerve coming from your back and spinal...
Back Pain
Unlike many mammals that can walk on two legs, human beings exclusively walk upright, in a vertical fashion, on two legs. We do not use our arms, dragging on our knuckles like closely related species such as apes and chimps nor, is our spine more...
What is a pain specialist?
Patients often asked, "What is a pain specialist?" or "How can I find a good pain specialist?" Like any medical professional, the answer lies within the doctor's education, clinical training, and subsequent certification by a related medical...
Meet Collin: Space City Pain’s therapy dog!
Meet Collin: Space City Pain's therapy dog! Our patients at Space City Pain Specialists are often pleasantly surprised when they see our canine friend, Collin, the therapy dog, playfully walking down the hallways of our office. He is a healthy,...
Resolve your knee pain at Space City Pain
Doing certain basic activities, such as climbing stairs, getting out of bed or walking can be greatly affected when suffering from knee pain, a very common symptom nowadays. If we consider that chiropractic is a therapy based on a combination of...
Visit a pain specialist at Space City Pain
Acute or chronic pain, either produced by the back, neck, joint, cancer-related, headache, diabetic neuropathy-related, arthrosis, or sports-related problems, can seriously affect your day-to-day life, not only diminishing your quality of life, but...
Heal your sciatica at Space City Pain
Suffering from sciatica means to suffer from a type of pain described by patients as a shooting, shock-like, burning, or cramping sensation, which increases its intensity when prolonged sitting, bending, or twisting is done. Following this nerve's...
Attend your back pain at Space City Pain
Back pain, both acute and chronic, is a common medical condition with numerous causing factors that can become seriously debilitating, affecting day-to-day life for even the strongest of individuals. While this condition has been treated with...
Spotting the Warning Signs of a Pinched Nerve
Has it ever happened to you that sometimes you suddenly stop feeling your foot or your arm as it should really feel and instead you start to feel them numb and heavy? Or that you wake up feeling your arm numb? Or that if you spend a lot of time...
Nimbus For Shoulder Pain
Formed by the humerus, scapula, and collar bone, and supported by a series of muscles, tendons, and ligaments, the shoulder is a great joint that allows us to have a wide range of motion while using our arms as an extension of our bodies. However,...
Space City Pain Specialists Contributes to Journal of Pain Medicine with New Study for Morphine Micro-dosing in Southeast Houston, Texas
Space City Pain Specialists Contributes to Journal of Pain Medicine with New Study for Morphine Micro-dosing in Southeast Houston, Texas August 24, 2017 Houston, Texas- Space City Pain Specialists, along with University of Texas Medical Branch, is...
Women and Migraines: Why do They Have More?
February 5, 2018 Migraine headaches affect 29.5 million Americans, approximately 12% of the U.S. population. Migraines are three times more common in women than men – about 18% of women suffer from migraines vs. 6% of men. What Causes Women to Have...
Exercises for Back Pain Relief
February 6, 2018 If you suffer from chronic back pain, you know how important it is to find back pain relief, but pain management might be easier than you thought. Your answer to pain relief could be exercise! Exercise has shown many benefits for...
Spine Pain: Before You Can Treat It, You Need to Know What’s Causing It
February 20, 2018 Chronic spine pain – back pain that persists for three months or longer – is debilitating and significantly affects individuals’ quality of life and ability to perform daily tasks. In severe cases, spine and back pain can leave...
Fibromyalgia, a Balancing Act
Written by Sheri New, Patient Advocate at Space City Pain Specialists Anyone that has experienced chronic pain or a chronic illness, like fibromyalgia, can tell you that finding a balance between what you need to do, what you can do, and what you...
The Importance of Physical Therapy for Pain Relief
When you are injured or in pain, exercising (or physical therapy) may be one of the last things you feel like doing. Ironically, performing strategic exercises under the guidance of a skilled physical therapist is actually one of the most effective...
VLOG: Doctors at Space City Pain Specialists Discuss Their 2018 MS150 Ride
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an unpredictable disease that has affected the doctors at Space City Pain Specialists. Dr. Cannella, who has been diagnosed with MS, and Dr. Garcia talk about their MS150 experience and why they are so passionate about...
CDC Guidelines for Use of Opioids for Chronic Pain
If you suffer from chronic pain, whether it be back pain, neck pain, or any other bodily pain, achieving relief is probably foremost in your mind every hour of every day. Realizing how debilitating and immobilizing chronic pain often is, many...