Back Pain – Clermont, Florida

 Back Pain Treatment:

• For patients needing rapid treatment for blocks- appointments within 48 business hours for some insurances, such as Medicare.
• For patients that could benefit from Precision Fluoroscopic (xray) guided injective treatments, such as epidurals, facet blocks, sacroiliac joint injections, radio frequency ablation and spinal cord stimulation.
• In-house Durable Medical Equipment such as bracing or electrical stimulation treatments, traction devices and more, all in-house.
• Conservative care ‘pre’ and ‘post’ surgical procedures.

Extensive natural supplementations options:

• Top Quality supplementation provided for medical offie such as Xymogen, Douglas Labs, Pure, Nutritional Frontiers
• 4 types of Magnesium for muscle pain and headaches
•  Anti-inflammatory treatments such as high-dose Curcummin, super high  EPA/DHA Omegas,  Bromelin, etc.
•  Effective support of pain relief with high end Glucosamine, MSM, White Willow bark and more
•  Joint support such as Boswellia or Chondroitin

Medications commonly discussed:

• Non-steroidals(NSAIDS)- pulse dosing
• Topical Medications – nsaids, lidocaine
• Muscle Relaxants – flexeril, tizanidine, fexmid
• Neuropathic Medications – gabapentin, cymbalta
• Analgesics – Tramadol, Butrans patches

Important to note:  Medication education and risks are important to understand.  There is an opioid epidemic and recent figures put 115 deaths per day in Florida.  The CDC recently just provided a warning for combining benzodiazepines (such as Xanax) and opioids due to the synergistic effect on respiratory suppression.

• NSAIDs such as ibuprofen / motrin etc may result in up to 100,000 yes 100,000 hospitalizations for gastrointestinal bleeding and up to 20,000 deaths per year.
• NSAIDs may also lead to kidney failure, increased blood pressure, and countless heartaches.
• The recommendation for tylenol is no more than 2.5 grams per day. Above that level may be toxic to the liver.