"I'll see both patients with benign and malignant spine conditions. So, patients with benign spine conditions will come in from just vague back aches or more severe pain that is keeping them up at night," says Theresa Pazionis, Orthopedic and Spine Surgeon at Miami Cancer Institute. According to Jose Mena, Interventional Spine Specialist at Miami [...]
Amir Mahajer, Interventional Spine Specialist at Baptist Health Neuroscience Center, says lower back pain with or without leg pain is extremely common and sometimes these exacerbations become more often and more frequent. "The number one thing I always tell patients not to do when they're having acute pain is doing forward flexion or bending at [...]
With a digital imaging, Dr. Jose Mena, Interventional Spine Specialist with Miami Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Institute, explains how the osteoarthritis spine looks. He describes discs serve as cushion and they’re between the different segments of the spine. As people age, discs become weaker and joints become arthritic, causing a lot of pain. Transcript Right [...]
Noel Gressner, Physical Therapist at Miami Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Institute, suggests doing exercises in a position that does not provoke pain. He also says manual physical therapy is a way of using joint manipulation, joint mobilization, among others to try to treat the spine, and part of the recovery is the manual hands-on treatment [...]
Severe back pain with movement; improved pain with standing, sitting, or lying down; limited movement in spine; nerve damage; and decrease in your height are some of the symptoms of spinal compression fractures. Dr. Brian Schiro, Interventional Radiologist with Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute, says many patients feel this pain when they are getting out [...]
Alexandra Turcios, Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner with Baptist Health Neuroscience Center, tells her patients the first time after the surgery will be very challenging, because they will feel pain, but this is going better through the days. She considers six weeks such an ideal recovery time after the surgery. She advises her patients, during this [...]
It is possible to prevent back pain and Dr. Georgiy Brusovanik, Spine Surgeon with Baptist Health South Florida, gives some tips about that. The expert suggests other exercises for improving back pain such as stretching and physical activity. TranscriptNow let's take a look at some tips that can help us keep a healthy back so [...]
There are some warning signs about back pain: pain in the extremities, recent unwanted weight loss, fever and grain numbness and incontinence. Dr. Georgiy Brusovanik, Spine Surgeon with Baptist Health South Florida, advises being aware if weight loss starts without a diet or healthy plan, because it can be related with cancer. The specialist also [...]
There are different types of back surgery, such as diskectomy, laminectomy, fusion and artificial disks. Dr. Theresa Pazionis, Orthopedic and Spine Surgeon at Miami Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Institute, says those ones would happen for patients who presented with a herniated disk and with either back pain or leg pain. "The type of surgery selected [...]
