If you have chronic, non-improving back pain, it could be due to spinal stenosis. Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal, the opening through which the nerve roots pass. Stenosis can develop in any area of the spine. At DFW Center for Spinal Disorders, we have various ways for treating spinal stenosis, […]
Back surgery sure isn’t what it used to be…and that’s a good thing. Most people know of someone who had open back surgery 15 or 20 years ago, and the healing and recovery facets of the procedure often weren’t pretty. Thanks to minimally invasive techniques that continue to evolve, when we now perform many lumbar […]
Our spines are amazing. First off, they allow use to separate ourselves from Rover sitting behind you and other animals and walk around upright. Of course, there are times when we wish we couldn’t do that. One such case is when one vertebra slips in forward out of its normal location and onto the vertebra […]
When we bend over to pick something up or lift something a little too far away from us, we often pay for it with debilitating back pain. Ouch, a muscle spasm. Usually these result from overuse, sports, or some accident/wrong move. But the root cause of most muscle spasms is an actual injury to something […]
Standing desks are all the rage in the workplace. You see the commercials, where employees are thrilled to go to work, where they never hate their boss any longer, where they never backstab other employees, where they never spend half of their workday mindlessly scrolling through their Facebook feed Wait. Standing desks may be popular, […]
We all put lots of unnecessary strain on our backs, usually due to a lack of foresight or just not paying attention to how we’re leveraging our spine with our movements. Since we see the end result of this kind of damage here at DFW Center for Spinal Disorders, here are three popular ways we […]
That phrase in the title of this blog sure says it all about neck pain. It is truly a “pain in the neck,” both literally and figuratively. Neck pain is a common complaint, in many people more so than back pain. This is partly because the neck muscles can become easily strained from simple behaviors […]
Just about everyone has some period of back pain during over the course of their lives. It could be an acute episode after improperly lifting some item. Or it could be chronic, ongoing pain that is due to weak muscles supporting your spine. In either of these cases, physical therapy will probably be one of […]
Most people have never heard the word spondylolisthesis, much less tried to spell or pronounce it. But if you’ve had this condition where a vertebra slips out of its normal location onto the bone beneath it, you probably know it all too well. Spondylolisthesis can lead to nerve compression, and that means back and often […]
Having a bulging spinal disc isn’t unusual — it’s estimated that as many as 80 percent of people over 55 have a bulging disc or discs. Bulging discs can be painless, or they can push on surrounding nerve roots and cause all sorts of pain. Here’s some information on a condition we see all the […]
