Pain Management & Elimination Treatments by Optimal Healthcare in Brookhaven

Results may vary from person to person due to lifestyle, healthy eating, body type and dedication to the program. No individual result should be seen as typical. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.

Far too many people ignore when their bodies are telling them that something is wrong. While we all wish that our bodies would simply tell us what was wrong, our bodies use the mechanism of pain to indicate when something is amiss.

Pain is a warning that you should take corrective measures before a physical problem worsens. Pain can indicate an obvious problem, like a stubbed toe or a paper cut, but pain can also indicate that your body is experiencing a far more serious problem. Pain management or pain reduction and elimination treatments can help patients that suffer from chronic pain lead a normal, pain-free life again. 

Here are some of the symptoms & types of pain:

The feeling of physical pain can vary greatly -- mild, sharp, severe, dull. Learn the symptoms for different types of pain, so you can describe them to a doctor.

Types:

Pain Types and Classifications - 

Even though the experience of pain varies from one person to the next, it is possible to categorize the different types of pain.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome -

Learn about carpal tunnel syndrome's causes, symptoms, and treatments.

Abdominal Pain -

Whether it is a mild stomach ache, sharp pain, or stomach cramps, abdominal pain has numerous causes.

Hip Pain: Causes and Treatment -

Despite its durability, the hip joint isn't indestructible. With age and use, the cartilage can wear down or become damaged.

Chronic Knee and Joint Pain -

Arthritis that affects your “shock absorbers” is the cause of pain and disability in knee and hip joints that can lead to surgery. 

Back Pain -

The causes of back pain can be complex -- accidents, muscle strains, sports injuries. Stiffness, pain, lower back pain, and pain radiating down the leg are symptoms of back pain.

Chronic Neck and Shoulder Pain -

Overexertion, pinched nerves -- all sorts of joint and muscle problems can cause neck and shoulder pain. Click here to read more about how shoulder and neck pain are diagnosed and treated.

Whiplash -

A car accident or any abrupt jerking motion to the head and neck -- and suddenly you have serious neck, shoulder, back pain. Standard X-rays of the neck may not show any injuries. Read more about whiplash.

Chronic Muscle Pain -

Use your muscles incorrectly, too much, too little -- and you’ve got muscle pain. Learn the subtle differences of muscle injuries and pain.

Muscle Pain -

Overuse injuries -- muscle sprains, strains, and pains -- result from all sorts of assaults, small to severe. Read more about the causes of muscle pain and treatment of muscle pain.

Sciatica Pain -

When your rear or leg muscles worsen when sitting for a long period of time, climbing stairs, walking, or running -- it might be sciatica. Read up on this common problem.

Arachnoiditis: Spinal Pain -

Inflamed tissue, which surrounds the spinal cord -- caused by injury, infection, or other assaults -- can cause great disability and pain. Read more.

Joint Pain -

See the causes of joint pain and how to treat it with both home remedies and prescribed medication.

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome -

It’s a baffling, intensely painful disorder that can develop from a seemingly minor injury, yet is believed to result from high levels of nerve impulses being sent to the affected disorder. Learn more about this disorder.

Central Pain Syndrome -

A stroke, multiple sclerosis, or spinal cord injuries can result in chronic pain and burning syndromes from damage to brain regions. Read this brief overview.

Phantom Limb Pain -

Phantom pain refers to the sensation of pain felt by patients who have had a limb amputated. Treatments are usually disappointing and do not provide relief. Read more about phantom limb pain.

Diabetes-Related Nerve Pain (Neuropathy) -

If you have diabetes, nerve damage can be a serious complication. This nerve complication can cause severe burning pain especially at night. Learn more about diabetic neuropathy.

Never ignore when your body is telling you that something needs to be fixed. The pain management experts at Discover Optimal Healthcare can help you understand what your body is trying to tell you. With our advanced treatments and expert staff, we can diagnose and help you manage pain with a customized pain management regimen.

Lead a Pain-Free Life by Nerve Block Therapy

Results may vary from person to person due to lifestyle, healthy eating, body type and dedication to the program. No individual result should be seen as typical. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.

If you are experiencing severe or chronic pain and pain medication does not seem to work anymore, then nerve block therapy may help you lead a pain-free life. Your body transmits pain throughout the nervous system. Nerve block therapy intercepts and inhibits that pain signal. When the nerve block treatment is effective, you will often notice pain reduction within an hour. The effects can last for weeks or months.

Nerve block therapies are often combined with other treatment options to not only numb the pain, but to discover where the pain is coming from and how to stop it from reoccurring. At Discover Optimal Healthcare, we seek to discover and eliminate pain through non-invasive treatment options. Our expert pain management team can help you get back to a pain-free lifestyle.

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We provide a wide variety of nerve block therapies, and one of our pain management experts can talk with you about which treatment option could best help reduce or eliminate your pain challenges.

Sciatica

When you feel shooting pain in your lower back, hips and thighs, you may have a pinched sciatic nerve. Using nerve block therapy that targets the cause of the pinching, many sciatica sufferers notice dramatically reduced sciatic pain.

Carpal tunnel (median)

If your carpal tunnel syndrome is so painful that it keeps you from performing normal daily activities, median nerve block therapy may be able to provide your wrists, forearms, and hands with much needed relief.

Suprascapular

Suprascapular nerve entrapment can be instigated by a variety of causes. However, it can result in chronic shoulder pain, as well as shoulder and neck weakness. If left untreated, a condition called Suprascapular nerve palsy develops. Suprascapular nerve block therapy targets the entrapped nerve and provides relief from this painful condition.

SPG

The sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG) is a collection of nerves that, when agitated, can cause chronic cluster headaches and migraines. If you are suffering from painful, reoccurring headaches, this nerve block therapy may be able to relieve your pain.

Axillary

The axillary block targets the brachial plexus nerve group in the upper arm, and can provide pain relief for a variety of upper arm-related conditions.

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Acupuncture - Ancient Eastern Wisdom Can Benefit Your Health Today!

Results may vary from person to person due to lifestyle, healthy eating, body type and dedication to the program. No individual result should be seen as typical. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.

Acupuncture is an ancient art that has been successfully practiced for over 4000 years. This ancient art has held up over the centuries, as modern scientific studies have shown that acupuncture can be effective at treating pain and other ailments.

By inserting thin needles into very specific parts of your body, pain and tension can feel like it is sliding away. On occasion, our classically trained, medically certified acupuncture practitioners will add a small electrical or heat stimulation to the acupuncture locations to further enhance the reparative powers of this time-honored treatment.

Why should I consider acupuncture?

Acupuncture has been observed to significantly reduce the effects of migraine headaches, back and joint pain, fibromyalgia and osteoarthritis. Patients have also expressed that acupuncture restores their mind/body balance, and positively influences their mind’s perception of pain.

In just 30 minutes per session, this nearly-painless treatment can help stimulate your body’s natural healing response, increase blood-flow to painful areas of your body, and reduce your overall level of pain.

What is an acupuncture session like?

Once you realize that acupuncture can help you live a more pain-free life, you will see that an acupuncture session with us can benefit your overall health. When you arrive for your appointment, one of our experienced acupuncturists will discuss your acupuncture plan with you, based off of the latest acupuncture techniques. Then, disposable, sterile needles will be expertly placed just below the skin into one of your body’s 350 acupuncture points, to provide you with maximum pain relief.

For 30 relaxing minutes, the needles remain in place, as your body is stimulated to generate its own painkillers, and begin the restorative process. Patients report little-to-no pain during this entire process. Instead, you will feel subtle movements of energy as their body responds to the effects of these ancient healing techniques. After your session is complete, the needles are carefully removed and disposed.

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Common Causes for Shoulder Pain

Because it’s the most mobile joint in the body, the shoulder joint is also the most susceptible to injury. However, not all pain is caused from the same thing. Only a medical professional can properly diagnose your shoulder issues, but the information below can help assist you in getting a general idea of what your particular problem may be prior to visiting your physician.

Scientists Develop A New Stem Cell Therapy For Brain Cancer

The treatment could greatly the survival times for patients with glioblastomas

Pet Scan of Human Brain (Wikimedia publc domain)

Glioblastomas is an especially virulent form of brain cancer, almost universally fatal to those who contract it. The cancer can be treated with surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation, but such treatments only delay the inevitable. Thus far it has been proven to be all but impossible to eradicate glioblastomas permanently. Tumors can be removed, but they leave behind cancerous tentacles that grow back into cancers. The survival rate for this form of brain cancer is just over 30 percent, according to Gizmag.

Now, a team of researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) have come upon a new way to treat brain cancer using adult stem cells derived from human skin. In 2006, the discovery was made that skin cells could be converted into stem cells that could then be converted into any type of cell of the human body. The discovery led to a Nobel Prize awarded in 2012. The possibilities for regenerative medicine are profound.

Advanced Pain Management - Head Pain, Back Pain

Far too many people ignore when their bodies are telling them that something is wrong. While we all wish that our bodies would simply tell us what was wrong, our bodies use the mechanism of pain to indicate when something is amiss.

Stem Cells In Use

In 1968, doctors performed the first successful bone marrow transplant. Bone marrow contains somatic stem cells that can produce all of the different cell types that make up our blood. It is transplanted routinely to treat a variety of blood and bone marrow diseases, blood cancers, and immune disorders. More recently, stem cells from the blood stream (called peripheral blood stem cells) and umbilical cord stem cells have been used to treat some of the same blood-based diseases.