Northwest Suburban Pain Center Blog
The Essential Guide to Patient-Physician Etiquette: Building a Healthy Doctor-Patient Relationship
When it comes to healthcare, the relationship between a patient and their physician is of utmost importance. A strong doctor-patient relationship is built on trust, respect, and effective communication. Just like any other professional relationship, there are certain...
Workplace Injuries: FAQ’s With Our Experts
For those of you that do not know, worker’s compensation is a law that is established to provide partial medical care and income protection to employees who are injured or become ill from the job.Our fellowship-trained and board-certified team at NSPC answer...
Exercise Health and Pain Management
Exercise is an important way of maintaining a healthy lifestyle and preventing chronic health conditions such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and sleep apnea. Health professionals recommend having 30 minutes of moderate-level intensity exercise per day....
Debunking Common Myths Surrounding Pain Management
Myth: Pain management is contributing to the growing opioid epidemic. Fact: Interventional and conventional medication pain management actually reduces the need for long-term use of opioids. Myth: Pain management is only meant for patients...
Auto Accidents and Pain
It is an unfortunate scenario to be involved in a car accident in the first place. The trauma of it all is in itself a turning point for most people. To add to this, physical trauma in the form of whiplash injuries as well as impact to the other body parts during the...
Low Back Pain and The Shopping Cart
Who says that only the current ongoing inflation is costing us the trip to the grocery store? The most common symptom of narrowing in the lumbar spine is when patients relate to us that when they go grocery shopping, the pain sets in and the cart comes to the rescue...
Regenerative Medicine: Treatment By Our Very Own
Regenerative medicine is a state-of-the-art technique involving one’s own stem cells and growth factors. Stem cells are the body’s own materials—cells from which all other cells with specialized functions are generated. There are 3 main types of stem...
Healthcare Workers Go The Extra Mile
Just a week and a half ago, we bid farewell to a colleague who is moving to Texas. It was years of working together for a majority of the staff members, and the void is now a point of reflection for most of us who continue caring for our patients at NSPC. Work ethics,...
Pain and Quality of Life
On an everyday basis, we witness patients in pain. Most come in later in their timeline of pain onset and one of the aspects that drives them to seek care is the impact of their pain on their quality of life. That one activity they absolutely love to do and pain comes...
Treating Pain: Behind the Scenes With The Doctor
When patients walk in the door, most are literally bent in pain. There are so many conditions to treat and so many ways to help our patients, that it is relieving to know that pain management is one of the most growing fields of medicine, challenged by the variety of...