Watch this video teaching you what a MRI scan of your neck tells your doctor. See a cervical disc bulge, bony spurs on the vertebrae from wear and tear of the neck. The MRI video will help you understand your MRI scans for that pinched nerve pain in your neck. Continue reading MRI Scan of a Trapped Nerve in Neck
Bakody’s Sign position is an orthopaedic test for a trapped nerve and can be used to relieve the radiculopathy pain in the arm. See what it looks like and why it may help in giving you some trapped nerve pain relief. Continue reading Bakody Sign Position
I came across a very interesting article today talking about using Vitamin C to help the neuropathic pain condition, postherpetic neuralgia. Postherpetic neuralgia is also known as shingles. Shingles is caused by the herpes zoster virus attacking the nerves causing pain usually in the intercostal nerves of the chest. What I found interesting was in the recent study by Chen et al. was that they helped to reduce the patients pain significantly using the anti-oxidant, Vitamin C (ascorbic acid). They found that a sign of poor nutrition is testing to see if you have low plasma levels of Vitamin C in your blood. But why Vitamin C? Well I had a look further into the role of nutrition particularly vitamin c in helping trapped nerve pain Continue reading Vitamin C Neuropathic Pain Relief
Do you think you have De Quervain’s Tenosynovitis? I seem to have had a few patients come in complainig of a wrist pain at the base of their thumbs, especially with grasping and holding items in their hand. The condition causing the wrist pain for these patients is likely to be de Quervain’s Tenosynovitis. So what are the symptoms, causes and treatment options if you think you have de Quervain’s Tenosynovitis. Take a look at the de Quervain’s disease information below on what I found out today about this inflammatory condition of the wrist. Continue reading De Quervain's Tenosynovitis
