Ensuring Safety in Pain Management

The specialty practice of Pain Management is a fairly new addition to the repertoire of the medical field. While there is an indispensable need for this expertise with Chronic Pain affecting over 11% of the population each year, we realize that this field requires vigilance, extensive clinical knowledge, and ethical responsibility on behalf of its physicians. More importantly, our owner and leading physician, Dr. Edward Tavel knows this through his 25 years of experience working in this field

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Epidural Steroid Injections (ESI)

What is an ESI? An epidural steroid injection is a pain management option for people with low back, leg, arm, and neck pain. The injection involves a minimally invasive procedure where a steroid, combined with a numbing agent, is administered into the epidural space of the spine. Depending on the patient’s area of pain, the injection is positioned at a specific level of the spine and side of the body to directly target the affected nerve roots. The injection works to

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What is a Pain Specialist?

It seems like there are specialists for everything these days. With over 100 million people living with chronic pain (in the United States alone) it is only fitting that there should be specific doctors for this epidemic. The term “pain specialist” can encapsulate multiple types of techniques and treatment methods but all these doctors have the same goal of managing pain for their patients. Many of these doctors have training in anesthesiology, physical therapy, or even neurology and

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Simple Anatomy of the Spine

The spine is most commonly thought of and referred to as the backbone that lends itself to movement, functionality, and support of the human body. This is of course true, but rather than being made up of just one long sequence of vertebrae and joints, the spine is actually made up of three distinctive parts. These three parts of the spine are very important as they all support different operations and work together to protect the nerves of the spinal cord. Cervical, Thoracic, and Lumbar

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More on Chronic Pain and How it can be Handled

Chronic pain is defined as pain that is on-going or persistent in nature. This pain can occur anywhere on the body and differs from acute pain, which usually arises as the result of a new ailment or injury. Like acute pain, chronic pain can begin as a side-effect of injury or illness but may have no clear cause in other cases. Since pain is a subjective experience that differs for everyone, making a medical diagnosis can be difficult. In recent years, chronic pain has gained more public

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