Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
Lumbar spinal stenosis causes leg pain, heaviness, or numbness with standing and walking. Learn the causes, imaging, and treatment options, from physical therapy to minimally invasive procedures.
Vertebral Compression Fractures
A vertebral compression fracture happens when one of the bones of the spine collapses, usually from osteoporosis. Learn the symptoms, imaging, and treatment options, from bracing to kyphoplasty.
Thoracic Spine Pain
The thoracic spine is the middle part of your back, where the ribs attach. It is more stable than the neck or low back, so pain here is less common, but it can be just as limiting.
Coccydynia (Tailbone Pain)
Coccydynia is pain in the coccyx, or tailbone, the small triangular bone at the very bottom of the spine. It usually hurts most when sitting, especially when leaning back, and when standing up from a seated position.
Cervicogenic Headache
A cervicogenic headache is head pain that comes from a problem in the neck, most often the upper neck joints, discs, or nerves.
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Carpal tunnel syndrome happens when the median nerve, which runs through a narrow passage on the palm side of the wrist, becomes compressed.
De Quervain's Tenosynovitis
De Quervain's tenosynovitis is irritation and thickening of the sheath around two tendons that move the thumb, where they pass along the thumb side of the wrist.
Trigger Finger
Trigger finger (stenosing flexor tenosynovitis) happens when a tendon that bends the finger becomes irritated and thickened where it passes through a tight band of tissue (the A1 pulley) at the base of the finger.
Plantar Fasciitis
Plantar fasciitis is irritation and degeneration of the plantar fascia, the thick band of tissue that runs along the bottom of the foot from the heel to the toes and supports the arch.
Achilles Tendinopathy
Achilles tendinopathy is a painful, degenerative condition of the Achilles tendon, which connects the calf muscles to the heel bone.
Morton's Neuroma
A Morton's neuroma is a thickening of the tissue around a small nerve that runs between the toes, most often between the third and fourth toes.
Ankle Osteoarthritis
Ankle osteoarthritis is the gradual breakdown of the cartilage that cushions the ankle joint. Unlike knee and hip arthritis, it most often develops years after an injury such as a fracture or repeated sprains.
Postherpetic Neuralgia
Postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) is nerve pain that continues for three months or more after a shingles rash has healed. The shingles virus (varicella-zoster, the same virus that causes chickenpox) damages the nerve as it reactivates, and the injured nerve keeps sending pain signals.
Trigeminal Neuralgia
Trigeminal neuralgia causes brief, severe, electric-shock-like attacks of pain in the face, usually on one side. It involves the trigeminal nerve, which carries sensation from the face to the brain.
Meralgia Paresthetica
Meralgia paresthetica is compression of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve, a sensory nerve that passes under a ligament near the front of the hip bone and supplies the skin of the outer thigh.
Intercostal Neuralgia
Intercostal neuralgia is nerve pain along one or more of the intercostal nerves, which run in a band beneath each rib from the spine around to the front of the chest and abdomen.
Chronic Post-Surgical Pain
Chronic post-surgical pain is pain that develops or gets worse after surgery and lasts at least three months, beyond the expected healing time.
Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition that causes widespread pain throughout the body along with fatigue, poor sleep, and difficulty concentrating ("fibro fog").
Epidural Steroid Injection
An epidural steroid injection (ESI) places an anti-inflammatory steroid medication, usually with a numbing medicine, into the epidural space, the area around the spinal nerves just inside the spinal canal.
Medial Branch Blocks & Radiofrequency Ablation
The facet joints are small joints at the back of the spine that let you bend and twist. When they become arthritic, they can cause chronic neck or back pain.