[caption id="attachment_1573" align="alignleft" width="351"] click for full size[/caption]Dr. Lewin of The Center for Spinal Disorders will be a guest speaker at a pre-Thanksgiving Lecture Dinner alongside community physicians hosted by The Center for Pain Management on Thursday, November 20th at the Palisadium in Cliffside Park,...
Trigger Point Injections, also called TPI’s, are intra-muscular injections of a local anesthetic (like Novocain), and often an anti-inflammatory steroid, not muscle-building, into the muscle sites that are contributing to your pain. Trigger point injections are used to treat specific areas of muscle that are in...
The answer is yes, you do have to live with it for the rest of your life. However, many patients with spinal stenosis live in the absence of pain or with minimal symptoms. By making simple lifestyle modifications and pursuing conservative treatment options, such as...
Discogenic back pain, or lumbar disc pain, is the result of degeneration of lumbar intervertebral discs in the lower back. This degeneration is a normal part of the aging process, and it is unknown as to why certain degenerative disks cause so much pain. Of...
Physician Lecture – September 22, 2014 Drs. Steven and Michael Horowitz of The Center for Pain Management of New Jersey and The Center for Hand Disorders, respectively, will host a physician event on Monday, September 22. Dr. Steven Horowitz will give a presentation entitled Back Pain:...
Back pain during pregnancy is so common that up to a full 75% of women will suffer from it by the 36th week of pregnancy. Often, back pain will resolve itself following delivery, but it is still difficult to live with during the many months of pregnancy. That’s why it is important to recognize the causes and prevention steps of pregnancy-related back pain.
Michael Horowtiz, MD, Board Certified Hand Surgeon, will become a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS) as of October, 2014. Members of the ACS are referred to as “Fellows.” The letters FACS (Fellow, American College of Surgeons) after a surgeon’s name mean that the...
Though we think of arthritis as affecting hands and knees, the truth is that it can affect any joints in the body, including the spine with a common condition called spinal arthritis. Although not every form of spinal arthritis is symptomatic, if you were to take...
In many cases, patients with back pain, leg pain, or weakness of the lower extremities are diagnosed with a herniated disc (also called a slipped, bulged or ruptured disc). If you have a slipped disc, it means one of the discs that sit between each of...
The ultimate answer to this question is no; epidural steroid injections don’t simply mask pain. However, an explanation of the benefits as well as limitations of these injections will assist you in better understanding them. Epidural steroid injections have been a standard treatment for short-term pain...