Everyone experiences occasional aches and pains. In fact, sudden pain is an important reaction of the nervous system that helps alert you to possible injury – it is a protective mechanism. When an injury occurs, pain signals travel from the injured area, up your spinal cord, and to your brain. It is a simple reaction.

Each specialty in medicine has an official definition. These definitions come from an organization called the National Uniform Claims Committee. As with other specialties this committee derived the definition for interventional pain management after consulting with scientists, physicians, patients, and policy makers.

Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, also known as NSAIDs, provide pain relief and reduce fever and in higher doses provide anti-inflammatory effects. Some of these are available over the counter such as aspirin, Advil, and Aleve...

The bones in our spine are called vertebrae. They are separated from each other by discs which are like jelly donuts and...

Many people think that pain is a diagnosis, but this is not true. Pain is a symptom that tells the physician that something is wrong...

Low back and lower extremity pain are the most common chronic pain problems...

Pain in the neck is common, second only to pain in the low back...

Facet joint pain is one of the most common pain symptoms with neck, mid back, and low back pain...

The sacroiliac joint is a major joint in the human body and connects the sacrum, the triangular bone at the bottom of the spine...

An epidural injection delivers medication into the epidural space around the spinal nerve roots to relieve pain caused by irritated spinal nerves...

Post herpetic neuralgia is a condition which produces severe, agonizing pain and suffering for many patients following...

Fibromyalgia syndrome is a common and chronic disorder with widespread musculoskeletal pain associated with fatigue, sleep, memory, and mood issues...

Regenerative medicine broadly describes an innovative medical therapy that will enable the body to repair, replace, restore, and regenerative...