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 [...]
Back pain, sciatica (burning pain going into buttocks and down into legs), numbness, tingling, cramping, or weakness in legs, loss of sensation in feet, and foot drop are some symptoms of lumbar stenosis. Dr. Georgiy Brusovanik, Spine Surgeon with Baptist Health South Florida, says numbness, tingling, cramping, and weakness are neurological symptoms. It means nerves [...]
The most common and feared surgery complication is infection. However, spine surgery has its own unique set of complications and Dr. Georgiy Brusovanik, Spine Surgeon with Baptist Health South Florida, explains some of them such as returns of disc herniation. He says always patients are concerned when they go to surgery. TranscriptSo what are some [...]
