How painful is radiculopathy and is it a spinal condition that always requires surgery? Radiculopathy, while a fairly common condition, may not be a term with which most people are familiar. Using the less technical “pinched nerve” or “sciatica” terms are far more likely to ring a bell. Other times the diagnosis might otherwise be…
Read MoreWhat causes rotator cuff injuries? In the United States alone, rotator cuff tears have become so common that 2 million people visit their doctor for this issue every year. If you have ever been unfortunate enough to have sustained this painful injury, just watching the pitchers in the World Series wind up to get ready…
Read MoreIs knee pain always a sign of arthritis? If you are currently not in a coma or on an extended retreat with the main focus being to avoid contact with the rest of the world, you are constantly exposed to various forms of the media’s 24-hour assault of information, most of which seems to revolve…
Read MoreIs “pinched nerve” a real type of spinal condition and how does it happen? As anyone unfortunate enough to have experienced the accompanying pain will tell you, nerves do, indeed, become pinched. The correct medical terminology, however, is “radiculopathy”, which is defined as the symptoms that result from a nerve becoming compressed or irritated at…
Read MoreWhat are the sports injuries that we should be concerned about the most? Let’s face it, life has gotten really hectic. Our work week seems to stretch farther and farther into what is supposed to be our personal time, and that doesn’t even begin to include all the other chores and responsibilities that pile up…
Read MoreWhat is chronic high hamstring tendinopathy and how is it treated? The hamstring muscles are the three large muscles in the back of the thigh, the biceps femoris, the semitendinosus and the semimembranosus. Strains or tears in these muscles are common, especially for athletes. In fact, while especially prevalent in football, hamstring injuries account for…
Read MoreWhat are the benefits of trigger point injections? Everybody has trigger points, but you may not realize just what they are or what role they play. The body is held together by a network of muscles, joints and tendons that all work together allowing us to perform our daily activities. When everything is working as…
Read MoreAt Long Island Spine Rehabilitation Medicine, our major focus is on pain relief and restored mobility, so we frequently use a treatment known as knee viscosupplementation to ease the pain and inflexibility of osteoarthritis of the knee. While the name of the treatment may be daunting, the procedure is simple and often extremely effective, involving…
Read MoreAt Long Island Spine Rehabilitation Medicine, our doctors often successfully treat patients with runner’s knee. Though the condition can be quite painful, patients typically recover fully within 4 to 6 weeks. Like so many other injuries named after sports, runner’s knee does not only occur in runners. Medically known as patellofemoral syndrome, the pain of…
Read MoreIn spite of its unfamiliar name, de Quervain’s tendinitis is an extremely common ailment, one frequently treated at Long Island Spine Rehabilitation Medicine. Also known as de Quervain’s tendinosis or tenosynovitis, the condition is an inflammation of the sheath that surrounds the two tendons that connect the wrist and the thumb. For reasons not yet…
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