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Pain Awareness Month

The Impact of Chronic Pain September is Pain Awareness Month. It’s a time dedicated to raising awareness about the widespread impact of chronic pain...

Scoliosis Screening & Detection

The Crucial Role of Screening & Pediatric Spine Surgeons in Early Detection and Treatment June serves as a vital reminder of the importance of...

ReActiv8

Do You Suffer from Lower Back Pain? Are you suffering from chronic low back pain (CLBP) caused by an injury or stress on the...

Scoliosis Awareness Month

Throughout this special month, our team at Cantor Spine Center will take the time to shine a light on scoliosis, a condition that affects...

Kyphoplasty vs. Vertebroplasty

Kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty are minimally-invasive procedures used to treat vertebral compression fractures. The two procedures utilize bone cement to alleviate pain and stabilize the...

NSAIDs

Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) are commonly used drugs for those experiencing pain. They are often used to help avoid addictive and harmful drugs such...

Pediatric Scoliosis

What is pediatric scoliosis? Pediatric scoliosis is a condition where the spine of a child or teenager is curved in an abnormal way. The...

Multifidus Atrophy

Multifidus atrophy is seen at varying degrees in almost all people that complain of low back pain. It is most common in women and...

What is Peripheral Neuropathy?

Peripheral Neuropathy results from damaged peripheral nerves. Taking the root words of “neuropathy,” we get “neur” and “opathy.” “Neur” refers to the neurons, while...

What are Platelet Rich Plasma Injections?

Platelet rich plasma (PRP) injections are one of the most minimally invasive techniques in interventional pain management. PRP is used in many aspects of...

What is an Interlaminar Epidural Steroid Injection?

IESI (interlaminar epidural steroid injection) is a minimally invasive outpatient procedure used to help decrease inflammation and irritation of the nerve root or herniated...

Trigger Point Injections

What is a Trigger Point Injection? TPI (Trigger Point Injections) are often used as minimally-invasive treatment options for pain. What Do TPI’s Target?  They...

Vertebral Compression Fracture

What is a Vertebral Compression Fracture? Vertebral compression fractures are extremely common, occurring about 1.5 million times each year in the United States. The...

What Is Sciatica Nerve Pain?

Do you feel pain in your lower back and buttocks that sometimes radiates down your leg and into your foot? Is this pain achy,...

What is Tech Neck?

Have you ever felt stiffness or pain in your neck? Do you sit at a computer or scroll through your phone often? Chances are,...

Ultrasonic Spine Surgery: Changing the Way Cervical Stenosis is Treated

If you have been diagnosed with cervical stenosis and have been told that you needed, or may need neck surgery, you need to pay attention to this. Ultrasonic...

Facebook LIVE: What is Cervical Stenosis?

To watch our Facebook Live, click here: Cervical Stenosis Facebook Live Dr. Giuffrida: We’re back for another Thursday talk with Dr. Jeff Cantor and myself. And,...

Proven Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Relief with Superion Treatments

Lumbar Spinal Stenosis is a painful and restrictive degenerative condition affecting the lower spinal nerves in patients over the age of 50. As a...

Ways to Manage Chronic Back Pain

Over 15% of the American population experience some sort of chronic pain. Pain is your body’s reaction to an injury or illness, and as...

Spinal Fracture Treatment

Osteoporosis is the most widespread degenerative disease in the developed world causing more than 700,000 spinal fractures in the United State every year. A...