Pain Management

Leverage Pain Management Treatment for a Healthier You

Feeling good can seem impossible when you’re hurting and searching for a reasonable pain management solution. Thankfully, there’s a way. An experienced and knowledgeable pain management doctor knows how to relieve pain and help restore your quality of life.

Healthcare providers use minimally invasive and highly effective techniques to perform diagnostics and treatments, resulting in less risk of side effects, complications, and medication. A qualified pain management doctor can give you a dose of healthy reality: You don’t need to live with pain, whether it’s mild pain or a type of pain that makes every moment miserable.

 

Venous Insufficiency and Pain Management

Varicose veins are evident when you can see blood vessels bulge just under the skin, which means pain management solutions should be on your immediate radar. These appear as blue or purple bulges on your legs, feet, or ankles. A condition called “venous insufficiency” typically causes varicose veins, which means your veins have trouble sending blood from the limbs back to the heart. These damaged veins cause poor circulation. Most of these varicose veins are on the back of the legs and may look contorted.

Endovenous Radiofrequency Ablation can help. An ablation procedure uses an image-guided radiofrequency or laser to recirculate blood flow away from abnormal vessels and reduce pressure and stress. Any pain management doctor worth their salt will tell you that ablation allows healthy vessels to take over faulty ones — thus, it remains a convenient and safe procedure for many patients.

 

Disks, Nerves, and Muscles

Herniated disk disease occurs when the fibrous cartilage that surrounds your vertebrae breaks down — oftentimes resulting in a pain management plan down the road. This happens when the gelatinous center of each disk is forced outward. As a result, there is pressure on the spinal nerve, causing pain and damage.

Diabetes or alcoholism can cause chronic inflammatory polyneuropathy. Neural numbness or tingling can affect one nerve or many at once. Several issues can cause sciatic nerve problems. One of the most common causes is a bulging or burst spinal disk pressing on the roots of the sciatic nerve. Numbness, pain, or tingling are common symptoms.

Muscle and nerve disorders can make one weak, tingly, and numb in the arms, legs, hands, and feet, and may also cause cramps, spasms, or atrophy from motor neuron loss.

A nerve conduction velocity/electromyography (NCV/EMG) is usually the best test for discovering what treatment to take next since this valuable pain management test can find nerve and muscle issues. This test can diagnose many common complaints, such as sciatica, back pain, radiating pain, numbness, tingling, cramping, muscle weakness, and localized pain.

 

Tension, Stress, Injuries, and Pain Management

Many people live with muscle tension, back and shoulder pain, and constant stress. Symptoms and causes include injuries, headaches, neck pain, anxiety, depression, stress, fatigue, chronic pain, sciatica, and shoulder or joint pain.

Massage treatment is usually the best pain management remedy offered by an experienced pain management doctor. Massage treatment can target painful areas. Using this integrative medicinal approach, a specialist kneads muscles, tendons, and ligaments. Body massages involve rubbing soft tissues. Within those soft tissues are your muscles, connective areas, tendons, ligaments, and deep skin. You will relieve stress, pain, and discomfort with muscle movement, deep tissue movements, and massage treatment therapy.

 

Musculoskeletal Health, Bones, Joints, and Tissues

Musculoskeletal pain can affect various parts of the body, including bones, joints, ligaments, tendons, and muscles. This makes pain management a priority for many. Injuries such as fractures can cause sudden, severe pain. Arthritis is another chronic condition that causes great pain. Muscles, bones, joints, tendons, and ligaments are all affected. Acute musculoskeletal pain can be sudden, or it can be chronic and seem to last forever. Pain can localize in a specific area or affect the entire body.

Check out acupuncture therapy right away. Musculoskeletal pain is treated in a conservative, holistic way. You can feel confident in your treatment by working with a licensed medical massage therapist who knows how to target and treat the muscles that are causing you pain.

 

Acute and Chronic Muscle Pain Management

There are plenty of reasons why muscle pain can develop. From sleeping in the wrong position to tearing large muscle groups while lifting weights, the reasons are endless. People with constant or chronic muscle pain may require medical treatment even after trying a few days of rest. Pain in your muscles can greatly affect your ability to function and can easily disrupt your quality of life.

People with chronic muscle pain may benefit from trigger-point injections. These will eventually let them live a life free of pain through proper pain management treatment. Performed by a trusted pain management doctor, these injections are accomplished intramuscularly and subcutaneously. Their targeted and helpful medication reduces inflammation and discomfort.

 

Wellness and Pain

You should see a pain management doctor right away if you’re experiencing pain that’s affecting your life. One of our pain management team members will help you with a proper diagnosis while discussing your treatment options. We’re happy to help you find the right treatment at Wellness and Pain. You can live a healthy, active life once you know your options and receive treatment. Now is the time to find a remedy for your acute and/or chronic pain.

Endovenous Radiofrequency Ablation

Vessel ablation – formally known as radiofrequency ablation (RFA) – is a minimally invasive and highly effective procedure that uses image-guided radiofrequency or laser energy to recirculate blood flow to reduce pressure and stress away from abnormal vessels. Once faulty vessels are ablated, healthy vessels are then able to function in their place.

Nerve and Muscle Testing (NCV/EMG)

Nerve and Muscle Testing (NCV/EMG) diagnostic test to evaluate for any problems relating to nerves or muscles.  The diagnostic test help manage many common complaints including:

  • Sciatica
  • Back pain
  • Radiating pain
  • Numbness
  • Tingling
  • Cramping
  • Muscle Weakness or Atrophy
  • Localized muscle pain

Dr Molina is a Board Certified Neurologist trained to help in the recovery and relief of patients’ pain and pain management symptoms, helping them to return to work and daily activities.

 

Massage Conditions

  • Pain including muscle tension, back and shoulder pain
  • Repetitive stress injuries
  • Headaches
  • Neck pain
  • Anxiety, depression
  • Stress
  • Fatigue
  • Chronic pain
  • Sciatica
  • Shoulder/ joint pain

Acupuncture

For massage and acupuncture this is conservative, holistic approach for treating musculoskeletal causes of pain. By working with our licensed medical massage therapists are professional trained to target and treat the muscles causing pain and discomfort.

Trigger point injections

TPI are used to treat painful and tender areas of muscle. They are intramuscular and subcutaneous injections often performed to decrease pain swelling and inflammation. The procedure consists of a medication injected into the skin and muscle.

Chiropractic Care/Massage

Advance Your Health & Well-being with Massage Therapy

Massage therapy, simply known as “getting a massage,” involves applying pressure to the soft tissues of the body. This method promotes relaxation, improves blood flow, and reduces pain.

For those looking to incorporate a safe and effective way to improve their health and well-being, massage therapy may be an excellent choice.

 

Massage Therapy: Safe, Effective, and Successful

Massage therapy can safely and effectively treat a variety of conditions. It does wonders for things like muscle pain, edema, muscle spasms, pain patterns, surgery recovery, and so much more.

Additionally, it can improve tissue healing, strengthen your immune system, relax you before a surgery, reduce stress and anxiety, reduce inflammation, increase blood flow, help you lose weight, improve digestion, boost your metabolism, alleviate constipation, bloating and flatulence, and reduce cortisol (a stress-induced hormone that increases appetite).

Massage therapy has an interesting history. It’s been used by cultures all over the world for centuries as one of the oldest healing arts. Throughout ancient Egypt, China, as well as Greece and Rome, it dates back thousands of years.

Massage therapy is safe and effective. Not only that, but it complements a variety of conditions as an alternative medicine. Using a specific set of techniques, a “modality” is a specific type of massage therapy. In fact, this treatment has many different modalities, each with its own set of advantages.

 

Various ‘Modalities’ and What’s Right for You

A massage therapy patient’s specific needs can be met by using different massage modalities. There are many types, including:

  • Reflexology: We apply pressure to unique points on you feet, hands, and ears.
  • Hot stone massage: Heated stones are used to promote blood flow and relax your muscles.
  • Lomi lomi massage: A Hawaiian massage using broad strokes to promote relaxation and well-being.
  • Deep tissue massage: Deep pressure is used to release knots, tension in your muscles, and other areas.
A close-up of someone receiving a deep tissue massage as part of their massage therapy treatment.
  • Prenatal massage: Specifically, this soothes a variety of pregnancy pains and allows you a rare moment to relax.
  • Swedish massage: This is the most common type of massage therapy. It uses very long strokes to relax your muscles.
  • Aromatherapy massage: This leverages the aromatic power of essential oils and other special relaxation techniques.
  • Sports massage: Athletes need targeted recovery from injuries. This type of massage helps improve their performance.
  • Thai massage: Using deep pressure, assisted stretching, and acupressure, this technique combines multiple techniques.
  • Shiatsu: Based on traditional Chinese medicine, this uses selective finger pressure to activate pressure points on your body.
  • Medical massage: This effective and safe treatment helps you relax, boosts blood flow, reduces pain, and treats a variety of medical conditions.
  • Stretch massage: This is a soft and efficient method of improving your flexibility and range of motion. It combines stretching with deep-tissue massage techniques.
  • Cranial sacral therapy (CS): This massage therapy soothes your central nervous system. Cerebrospinal fluid cushions your brain and spinal cord. By gently moving bones in your skull and sacrum, this helps improve fluid circulation and promotes healing.

At Wellness and Pain, we offer a select set of therapies that are appropriate for our patients’ individual circumstances, pain management problems, and massage therapy needs.

 

The Science Behind Massage Therapy

In massage therapy, touch is used to improve health and well-being as an alternative medicine. Muscle, tendons, and other areas of your body are all treated through manual application of pressure.

As a whole, this treatment helps to release endorphins. In turn, endorphins relieve pain and boost your mood. Your pituitary glands and hypothalamus release endorphins in response to pain or stress. These  are pain relievers and mood boosters. Additionally, you can stimulate them through a variety of activities, including exercise, listening to music, and spending time outside.

Massage therapy, however, has been shown to increase endorphin levels in the body and is effective in helping with pain and stress. Through interaction between your neuron receptors and endorphins, massage therapy reduces the perception of pain by stopping pain signals from reaching the brain.

The effect of endorphins on one’s mood is also positive. In the brain, they increase levels of dopamine and serotonin, two neurotransmitters connected to happiness and well-being.

 

Wellness and Pain Can Help

A range of massage therapy options are available at Wellness and Pain. We offer conservative treatments, routine visits, and minimally invasive, quick-recovery procedures. Together we can keep you free of problems by providing lifestyle education and home care advice to help you avoid and manage issues, quickly relieving the conditions slowing your life by using cutting-edge massage therapy techniques.

We personalize patient care plans based on each patient’s condition and unique circumstances to relieve pain, improve mobility and mental space, and improve your overall health.

Benefits of Massage

Massage can be helpful at different times and stages of care for various life events: trauma recovery, pain management, weight-loss. Depending on the ailment and/or the desired change event, the combination of massage modality and frequency can aid in the return of optimal function.

Acute or Chronic pain

  • Reduce edema
  • Eases muscle spasm
  • Disrupts pain patterns.

Post-Operative

  • Reduces soreness
  • Increases flexibility
  • Reduces scar tissue and adhesions
  • Improves tissue healing
  • Strengthens immune system

Pre-Operative Care

  • Reduces stress and anxiety
  • Reduces inflammation
  • Increases circulation

Weight Loss

  • Improves digestion
  • Boosts metabolism
  • Reduces constipation, bloating and flatulence
  • Reduces the production of cortisol, a hormone that is released in response to stress and has been shown to increase appetite

Conditions Related To Massage Therapy

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Back Pain Specialists

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Radiating/Sciatica leg pain

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Varicose / Spider Veins & Anti-Aging

Your ‘Varicose Veins Doctor Specialist’ Journey Ends Here

When you finally notice what’s been spreading throughout your legs, it’s easy to quickly type ‘varicose veins doctor specialist’ into your browser. After all, why wouldn’t you want both a doctor and a specialist for your varicose veins? Although the terms are often used interchangeably, ‘varicose veins’ and ‘spider veins’ are not the same thing. And that’s okay. We have doctors (And specialists) for both.

Here are some of the key differences between varicose veins and spider veins:

  • Appearance: Varicose veins are notably large, twisted, bundles of veins that bulge out from under your skin. Less than a third of this size, spider veins appear as small, thin lines that branch out in a spider web pattern.
  • Symptoms: Other than their appearance, spider veins don’t typically cause any symptoms. On the other hand, varicose veins cause a slew of them. They can often lead to aching, cramping, or swelling in your legs.
  • Location: Although both of these are visible from the surface of your skin, one runs much deeper than the other. Varicose veins only become visible because they have become so swollen and misshapen over time.

While both conditions are common and generally not dangerous, your quality of life is still important. To treat them, we first need to know what causes them.

A woman sitting on the edge of her bed and looking at the varicose and spider veins in her leg.

What Varicose Veins Doctors and Specialists Know

First, let’s start small with spider veins. Then, we can move on to varicose veins.

In most cases, spider veins are caused by the dilation (Or, the enlargement) of the small blood vessels closest to the surface of your skin. Although the exact cause of spider veins hasn’t quite been determined yet, here are some factors that add to their development:

  • Age: As we age, the veins in our legs may slowly start to lose their elasticity. In and of itself, this may seem like nothing. However, it prevents blood from flowing to our hearts as efficiently as before. Blood then pools in and enlarges the affected veins.
  • Genetics: It might be completely outside of your control. Just like high blood pressure or other heart conditions, spider veins tend to run more in some families than others. This suggests genetics plays a bigger role in their development than some may think.
  • Sun Exposure: Of course, this one is well within your control. Prolonged sun exposure can actually cause our skin to become thinner and our blood vessels to dilate. Over time, this increases the visibility of spider veins just under the surface of our skin.

Of course, there are more factors than just these three. However, these are the big ones you can check for in your own life. Besides, there’s something else you may need a doctor or specialist for—And we touched base on it just above.

With age and other factors, the veins deep within your legs lose their elasticity.

 

The Root Cause of Varicose Veins

An illustration of swollen veins caused by venous insufficiency.

‘Venous insufficiency’ could seem like a complex phrase. Thankfully, it’s not. Let’s look at it in detail. ‘Venous’ simply references your veins. ‘Insufficiency’ is like ‘Inadequate’ or ‘Lacking.’ It’s when the veins in your legs aren’t what they used to be.

Normally, blood circulates through your heart before it travels to other parts of your body. Your legs have valves in their blood vessels that aid in recirculating that blood back to the heart—It’s quite a distance to go against gravity. So, think of these valves as pit stops. With time, they wear out and stop working the same way. Waste products and blood that require filtration start to build up within your legs. This is the root cause of varicose veins, and it also contributes to spider veins.

Wellness and Pain: Your Varicose Veins Expert

As we said before, neither of these conditions are life-threatening, but they do pose a serious threat to the overall quality of your life. We not only want you to be comfortable in your own skin, but we want to help with any aching, cramping, or swelling.

You deserve the best. So, we’ll give you the best. After an easy 10-minute ultrasound, we’ll know exactly what to do.

  • Treating Spider Veins: This one’s easy. Sclerotherapy. We’ll inject a unique foam into the affected veins. After which, they will close and direct blood back to healthy veins.
  • Treating Varicose Veins: This one’s a little more in-depth but just as easy. Endovenous radiofrequency ablation uses radiofrequency energy to heat affected veins. This causes them to close the same way sclerotherapy works on spider veins, re-directing blood.

The best part? With both treatments, you’ll be out in no time. And they’re covered by most insurances and unions.

So, we look forward to hearing from you.

Treatments for Varicose & Spider Veins

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Schedule your consultation with Dr. Arad or Dr. Molina at Wellness & Pain today!

Men’s / Women’s Health

IV Hydration Therapy: The What, How, and Why

IV hydration — also known as intravenous hydration — can speed up the recovery process and improve your overall health by boosting your body’s ability to absorb fluids and electrolytes through vitamin rehydration.

In fact, vitamin rehydration therapy involves a variety of vitamins and minerals. Among the most common are vitamin C, vitamin B12, magnesium, potassium, and sodium.

 

Today’s Unique IV Hydration Treatment

In a doctor’s office or hospital setting, IV hydration is a safe and effective way to replenish fluids and electrolytes. A needle or catheter is inserted into a vein to deliver fluids and electrolytes directly into the bloodstream. During this process, fluids are replenished and electrolytes are replaced.

Historically, patients suffering from dehydration, diarrhea, vomiting, fever, heat stroke, sepsis, and a host of other conditions can benefit from the use of this medication.

Fast forward to today, and now all types of individuals seek routine IV hydration for rapid rehydration, improved electrolyte balance, reduced dehydration complications, and overall health and wellbeing. Americans don’t get enough vitamins and nutrients from their diet to stay healthy and to look and feel good.

It’s different for everyone, but most people could benefit from more magnesium, vitamins B, B12, and C, zinc, and a host of other nutrients.

 

IV Hydration Through Vitamins, Nutrients, & Antioxidants

IV hydration plays a huge role in the lives and healthy lifestyles of so many adults today. Rehydration has the advantage of delivering vitamins, minerals, nutrients and antioxidants quickly and efficiently throughout your entire body.

You don’t have to wait hours and hours for your body to digest and benefit from vitamin pills. You feel the effects of IV hydration immediately after receiving it.

Individual needs determine which vitamins and minerals are used. There is generally no risk associated with vitamin rehydration therapy. However, if you have any underlying health conditions, you should speak to your doctor before starting any rehydration therapy.

You can make sure your immune system is prepared for anything by choosing to rehydrate. Nutrition and vitamin rehydration can help you stay healthy when combined with other commonsense measures.

 

Don’t Skip Your Usual Rehydration Routine

IV hydration is extremely beneficial, but remember that water is the best fluid for preventing dehydration. The over-consumption of caffeine or alcohol can cause dehydration.. You may also want to consume lots of fruits and vegetables, which contain heavy amounts of water.

In addition, dress in layers to allow you to adjust your clothing as the temperature changes. Avoid strenuous activity in hot weather and take cool showers or baths. Also be sure to drink plenty of fluids if you’re sick. You must replace fluids and electrolytes lost from bouts of vomiting or diarrhea.

If you want an extra boost beyond following a hydration-healthy routine, you should look into IV hydration. The process itself will take a different amount of time for each person, according to that individual’s needs. Generally, fluids and electrolytes are administered within 30 to 45 minutes (or one hour).

A young man receiving an IV hydration treatment, drinking water and sitting comfortably.

IV hydration provides your body with numerous benefits. In addition to replenishing nutrients that have been depleted due to illness, injury, or other factors, they also improve electrolyte balance, which is essential for many bodily functions.

This type of rehydration can also reduce inflammation — inflammation worsens a variety of health conditions — and improve your energy levels.

IV hydration therapy includes a number of vitamins, including vitamin C (which protects cells from damage and promotes immunity); vitamin B12 (which produces red blood cells and regulates nerve function); magnesium (which relaxes muscles and regulates blood sugar); potassium (which helps control fluid balance and blood pressure); and sodium (which regulates fluid balance and nerve function).

 

IV Hydration: For Those Needing the Extra Boost

Sometimes you just need a bit more energy to get through a busy day, week, or month — and IV hydration can provide it. You’ll feel 100-percent rejuvenated and ready for a big day or a big week with a blast of vitamins and fluids.

It’s important to remember that IV hydration involves delivering nutrients, vitamins, electrolytes, and antioxidants intravenously to restore and detoxify the body. Even so, drinking plenty of water and eating healthy on your own is always a wise idea.

For those who run fast, work hard, and play even harder, as well as for those who just need a random pick-me-up, being able to schedule rehydration therapy selectively on a flexible basis is an excellent opportunity. If you feel your body needs fast hydration and rejuvenation, schedule an appointment now to give it the nutrients and fluids it needs.

 

Wellness and Pain Can Help

A range of IV hydration treatment options are available at Wellness and Pain. We offer minimally invasive quick-recovery rehydration therapy to get you feeling great again. With these, we can help alleviate that lethargic and tired feeling you sometimes get — as well as other nutrition problems — by helping in the management of your hydration and vitamin intake properly.

We personalize patient care plans based on each patient’s condition and unique circumstances to improve your range of motion, energy, and your health.

IV Therapy Conditions

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Wellness and Pain accepts most major insurance plans. Here is a list of some of the major insurance plans we accept. If you do not see your insurance plan listed, please call our office to confirm.

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