Friday Quiz
Previously on our Instagram page #northeastspine, we had a series on quadriceps exercises and asked the following quiz just for fun.
Q: Which of the following is not part of the quadriceps muscles: Vastus intermedius, rectus femoris, sartorius, vastus medialis?
*For extra credit: Which former president underwent surgical repair of his quadriceps?
Chronic back pain can make even the simplest of tasks incredibly difficult and get in your way of resting comfortably at night. The good news is that there are ways of addressing back pain that do not involve needles or surgery.
At NorthEast Spine and Sports Medicine of New Jersey, we successfully use spinal decompression therapy to help patients get relief from many types of back pain. This blog post will tell you more about the procedure and help you decide if it is a treatment you can explore.
Chronic pain affects more than just your body. Dealing with constant discomfort can reduce your quality of life and impact your emotional and mental health, making it important that you take steps to get relief if your current pain management plan isn’t doing enough to address your symptoms.
The National Institutes of Health reports that 1 our of every 4 Americans will suffer from pain that lasts for longer than 24 hours at some point in their lives, and if you’re one of the more than 75 million people faced with chronic pain, you know how the discomfort can interfere with your daily life. Fortunately, it is often possible to manage chronic pain with the right treatment plan.
Have you heard of impingement?
Think of the word, sounds like pinching, right? Imagine the arm bone doesn’t have enough room to raise, and bumps up against the front part of shoulder blade bone. If this keeps happening, it can lead to rotator cuff tears.
Have you ever wondered how to sit with correct posture? Don’t worry, you aren’t the only one who has thought about this. Many people have pain that can be prevented. Let us show you how.
In part 1 of this blog series, we discussed the importance of the sagittal or “side view” curves of the entire human spine. In part 2 of this blog series, I would like to go into greater detail as to why proper spinal curves are critical, when dealing with proper biomechanics, spinal health and back pain.
In a previous post, I discussed Jumper’s Knee. In this short video, I will show you first a normal patellar tendon and its appearance on ultrasound. And then I will show you a person with patellar tendinosis.
Dr. Vic Alfieri, DPT discusses two simple strategies to use during your daily activities to prevent you from developing lower back pain the next time you have to lift something from the floor or move something down to the floor.
Vax-D is a spinal decompression table used to effectively treat patients complaining of low back pain. The table stretches the muscles, ligaments, discs, and joints of the low back, which releases negative pressure on these pain generating structures.
If you’re looking for a multi-specialty medical group that offers interventional pain management, sports medicine, chiropractic care, acupuncture therapy, and orthopedic surgery, look no further than NorthEast Spine & Sports Medicine.
Since the beginning, our doctors and staff have been committed to treating patients who suffer from several different types of painful spine, joint, and orthopedic conditions. Furthermore, our goal is not only to reduce pain through physical rehabilitation, therapy, or any of our procedures and treatment options, but to help all of our patients have their functionality and quality of life restored.
One of the many benefits of choosing NorthEast Spine & Sports Medicine is that we only use the most innovative and modern treatment options and procedures. Furthermore, every service and treatment option we offer is available at each of our six offices. Therefore, you should expect to receive the treatment you need whether you visit our office in Jackson, NJ, Point Pleasant, NJ, Barnegat, NJ, Manchester, NJ, Aberdeen, NJ or Tinton Falls, NJ. Furthermore, when patients come to one of our offices, they are always greeted with smiles and treated with kindness.
Every member of a team is respectful and empathetic, and will go to great lengths to ensure your pain management needs are addressed. Another reason to choose our medical practice is because our team makes it one of their highest priorities to stay at the forefront of medical research so that they’re offering the best care possible. Lastly, our physicians and staff also make certain that patients have the knowledge they need to help them live pain-free lives.
While some patients may only require one service and/or treatment option and procedure, others may require customized care plans to help them get back on their feet. After your initial evaluation, your physician will create a custom-tailored treatment plan that they feel will offer you with the pain relief you want. In fact, you should not only expect to be recommended with a treatment plan that will help to reduce and/or eliminate your pain, but one that will aid in increasing your activity level, and reducing the amount of pain medicine you take. In the end, you will be provided with a comprehensive and customized care plan that will greatly improve the quality of your life.
Even though pain is an unavoidable part of life, it doesn’t mean you must suffer from it all throughout your lifetime. To learn more the doctors and staff at NorthEast Spine & Sports Medicine, our pain treatment options and procedures, and our locations in and around Ocean County, NJ, and Monmouth County, NJ, please browse our site. To make an appointment, please don’t hesitate to do so online, or give one of the offices closest to your home in Brick, NJ, Lakewood, NJ, Marlboro, NJ, Freehold, NJ, Glassboro, NJ, or another area a call today.
