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 on individuals, families, and entire communities. This month emphasizes the significance of understanding pain and the available treatments for its effective management, providing hope and remedies for millions of patients suffering from chronic pain.
The Implications of Chronic Low Back Pain
Chronic low back pain isn’t just a mere physical ailment; it bears broader implications for the United States. This type of pain can diminish productivity, disrupt daily activities, and significantly erode quality of life. It acts as a distress call from our bodies, signifying a need for attention and effective remedies.
Expert Pain Management
For South Floridians, Cantor Spine Center at the Paley Orthopedic & Spine Institute in Fort Lauderdale, West Palm, and Jupiter stands as a symbol of hope for patients looking for expert pain management care. Our acclaimed center is home to some of Florida’s top pain management specialists. Drs. Anthony Giuffrida, Benjamin Westerhaus, and Roshan Chhatlani lead the way with groundbreaking treatments for chronic low back pain. Collaborating closely with esteemed spine and neurosurgeons, Drs. Jeffrey Cantor and Scott Raffa ensure comprehensive and integrated care for all patients.
Innovative Treatments for Chronic Low Back Pain
Below are treatment options available for patients:
- Relievant’s Intracept Procedure: Solely designed to target the basivertebral nerve, offering relief from chronic vertebrogenic low back pain.
- Mainstay Medical’s ReActiv8: A restorative therapy, stimulating the muscle nerves crucial for lumbar spine stabilization.
- Nevro’s HFXiQ Spinal Cord Stimulator: Offers personalized pain relief with algorithms for painful diabetic neuropathy (PDN) and chronic back and leg pain, including non-surgical back pain (NSBP).
- Kyphoplasty: Targets vertebral compression fractures (VCFs), offering stabilization and reduction.
- Epidurals: A procedure where medications are injected into the spine’s epidural space to combat pain and inflammation in the lower back.
- Radio Frequency Ablation: A procedure using electrical energy to impede nerve fibers, alleviating pain signals.
Recognizing the uniqueness of each individual’s pain, treatments at the Cantor Spine Center are tailored to match specific conditions, symptoms, and long-term lifestyle goals.
Emotional & Lifestyle Cost of Back Pain
Addressing back pain isn’t just about alleviating physical discomfort. It encompasses lost moments – such as family events, beach outings, golfing, exercise, or time away from hobbies. It’s also about a compromised lifestyle. By acknowledging pain and its impacts on daily life, you can take measures to manage or even eliminate it. At the Cantor Spine Center, expert interventional pain physicians, spine, and neurosurgeons are here to provide safe, effective, and long-term solutions.
Long-Term Care & Support
Addressing back pain isn’t just about alleviating physical discomfort. It encompasses lost moments – such as family events, beach outings, golfing, exercise, or time away from hobbies. It’s also about a compromised lifestyle. By acknowledging pain and its impacts on daily life, you can take measures to manage or even eliminate it. At the Cantor Spine Center, expert interventional pain physicians, spine, and neurosurgeons are here to provide safe, effective, and long-term solutions.
Schedule Your Appointment Today
This Pain Awareness Month, we emphasize that while pain might be a part of life, enduring chronic low back pain shouldn’t be. If you or your family member is suffering with chronic low back pain, reach out to our team at (954) 567-1331 or request an appointment to schedule a patient consultation today.