Watch the video Video Transcript A question and a challenge that comes up for anyone who treats spine for long enough is, "How do you treat chronic lower back pain?" Chronic is defined as pain that lasts, in the lower back, that lasts for longer
Watch the video Video Transcript Treating cervical radiculopathy begins with a good understanding of the anatomy that's underlying the radiculopathy so you can focus your efforts appropriately. Essentially, treating a cervical radiculopathy though is like treating most other musculoskeletal ailments, which is that we need
Watch the video Video Transcript Treating cervical herniated disc depends on whether or not that disc is symptomatic or not. So, not all herniated discs in the cervical spine and other parts of the spine necessarily are causing any symptoms - often they're not. Certainly
Watch the video Video Transcript The most common cause of foot pain is certainly within the foot itself. People develop arthritis, bursitis, tendonitis, you can have a neuroma within the foot; there are a number of causes within the foot itself that would cause foot
Watch the video Video Transcript A sacroiliac joint injection is an injection into the sacroiliac joint. The sacroiliac joint - just for anatomy's sake - here's the pelvis. This is the front. This is the back. This is the sacrum; and this bone right here
Watch the video Video Transcript As a physiatrist, or a physical medicine and rehabilitation doctor who sub-specializes in interventional spine and joint pain, I think of our field as, essentially, primary care for musculoskeletal medicine. Our field is ideally suited for aggressively diagnosing and conservatively
Watch the video Video Transcript Lumbar radiculopathy is irritation of a nerve root as it exits the spine. Radiculopathy: "Radic-" is just Latin for "nerve root" and "-opathy" is "pathology.” So it’s pathology of a nerve root. Commonly, people refer to it as a pinched nerve in
Watch the video Video Transcript An epidural steroid injection is an injection literally in the epidural space. "Epi-" is Latin for "outside of" and "-dura" is the "lining of the nerve root." So, an epidural steroid injection is literally an injection in the epidural space.
Watch the video Video Transcript A cervical radiculopathy is commonly referred to as a pinched nerve in the neck. Basically cervical radiculopathy, "Radic-" is Latin for "nerve root" and "-opathy" pathology, pathology of that nerve root. It is basically irritation of a nerve as it
Watch the video Video Transcript I am Dr. Grant Cooper from the Princeton Spine and Joint Center. I have been asked to talk to you today about what causes lower back pain. When we talk about lower back pain we have to make an important