Here at The Minimally Invasive Spine Institute we find many couples that are struggling to understand the reason why their loved one is in pain. When chronic pain enters one’s life, relationships can be strained when a person feels a lack of support. Chronic pain can have a toxic effect on relationships, especially if one [...]
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What is Pain Mapping?
Pain mapping is a technique used to locate the source of the patient’s pain.
What is the Purpose of Pain Mapping?
The purpose of pain mapping is important so that our doctors can treat only the specific area in the least invasive way possible.
Why is Pain Mapping an Advancement from other Techniques?
Early methods of [...]
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If you’ve ever seen the movie “Thank You For Smoking,” then you know the nice looking guy to the left is not your friend. In fact, smoking increases your risk for back pain. Specifically the risk for degenerative disc disease.
Much like the breath in your lungs, your spine needs a strong flow of blood. Did [...]
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Unfortunately, exciting medical advancements often lead to misconceptions, which is exactly what is happening in the minimally invasive industry right now. Many doctors are claiming to perform minimally invasive surgery, and are getting away with it because of the incision size, but the equipment, or retractor they are using expands once inside your spine, causing [...]
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Continuous passive motion is a treatment designed to aid in the recovery of joints immediately after trauma or surgery. The device constantly moves the joint through a controlled range of motion.
We’ve been unable to find studies directly concerning continuous passive motion for back pain, but there is a history of studies following knee surgery. Those [...]
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Fusion procedures have really endured a terrible reputation and in many cases rightfully so. In the early 1950s doctors had no way of identifying what was painful and what was not, and most important, where the pain was coming from. Fusions were done fairly indiscriminately and it was just routine to fuse the bottom two [...]
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An encouraging article from spine-health.com states that the risk of infection after spine surgery is now down to 2%.
A review of more than 108,000 spine surgeries has found the overall risk of superficial or deep wound infections occurring after operation to be 2%, according to research presented from the Scoliosis Research Society at last week’s [...]
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Recently Doctor Richard Rhim was invited to discuss the latest minimally invasive spine procedures on WFAA’s Good Morning Texas in Dallas. In the interview Dr. Rhim discusses how do our minimally invasive procedures differ from traditional surgery and an explanation of what minimally invasive actually means. He also gives a brief description of our exclusive [...]
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The days have really gotten shorter since the time change and by the time you step out of the office you’ve missed the sunshine and the cold wind is blowing again. The change in weather can also bring many people a lot of discomfort, so we wanted to share this article from spine-health.com that gives [...]
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It’s early November and here in Dallas we are still enjoying mornings in the mid 50’s, but the cold winter mornings are approaching. It’s a good time to enjoy the indoors, but don’t neglect the exercise just because of the weather.
Yesterday The New York Times published an online article about training the mind to run [...]
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