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September is National Pain Awareness Month in the United States, so we’re focusing on some relatively new thinking surrounding this age-old problem and the many ways we can help.

With National CBD Day on August 8 each year, we thought we’d devote this month’s blog post to the benefits of using CBD for pain management, and there are quite a few. Read on to learn more.

Lower back pain is a common and costly problem. Commonwealth Pain & Spine is proud to offer Intracept®, a new, effective treatment option that is proven to significantly reduce vertebrogenic pain.

About 85% of people experience myofascial pain at some point in their lives, but some develop myofascial pain syndrome. Whether acute or chronic, explore how dry needling can bring relief for this type of pain.

You’re overweight or have obesity and you also suffer from frequent, and often debilitating, lower back pain. The two conditions may be related, which makes weight loss a great first step toward finding relief.

Women’s reproductive hormones fluctuate a great deal, which can cause a wide range of side effects from mood swings to debilitating headaches. Here’s how hormone-related head pain develops and how we can help.

Every day, you face chronic pain and you want to do what you can to lessen the discomfort. While we can certainly do our part here, there are some steps you can take on your own that are proven to relieve pain.

It starts off innocently enough — you take a painkiller a little bit before you’re supposed to, thinking it’s no big deal. This quickly becomes a slippery slope toward addiction if you’re not careful, and we explain why.

There are more than 100 different types of arthritis, but osteoarthritis is, by far, the most common. There are many factors that can lead to osteoarthritis and we review three of the more common here.

It feels as if your life is at the mercy of migraine attacks that occur with alarming frequency each month, and you want your life back. The good news is that there’s a treatment that may reduce the frequency and severity of your migraines.

You have a specific nerve, or group of nerves, that are hyper irritated, sending them into overdrive, which causes you a great deal of pain. Through targeted nerve blocks, we can quiet these nerves and your pain.

The prevalence of joint pain in the United States is nothing short of staggering — more than 92 million adults have arthritis or arthritis-like symptoms. Thankfully, we can fight back against the pain with intra-articular injections.

Pain can be frustrating under the best of circumstances, but when your pain is related to an area of your body that’s no longer there, the problem becomes even more difficult. Explore how TENS may hold the key to relieving phantom limb pain.

Most of us experience muscle pain from time to time, including myofascial pain, which has a lifetime prevalence of 85%. If this pain doesn't go away, it becomes a syndrome and can benefit from expert care.

Unlike men, women’s hormones fluctuate considerably throughout their lives, and these highs and lows can create, among other problems, headaches and migraines. Here’s a closer look at hormonal head pain.

In the 1990s, medical providers liberally prescribed opioids, believing them to be an effective and safe route to manage pain. We now understand that there are some serious risks with opioids, and we discuss them here.

Your world has become much smaller thanks to ever-represent pain that oral medications can’t manage. The next step is to target — and quiet — the nerve responsible for your pain, which is what we accomplish through a nerve block.

Imagine a world where you take charge of your mental and physical health, a world where your life isn’t overshadowed by pain. That world is within your reach thanks to a ground-breaking app called NeuroFlow®.

You’ve been injured on the job and you’re suddenly thrust into a life of inactivity, both at work and at home. Through occupational medicine, we can help you get your life back.

For thousands of years, people have turned to hemp oil to address a wide range of mental and physical health problems. From addressing arthritis to anxiety, here’s a look at a few of the many benefits of hemp oil.

There’s nothing quite like the pain that comes with sciatica, which can make even a shower a miserable affair. If you’re struggling with sciatica pain, here are a few tips and treatments that can help bring you relief.

If someone mentions physical therapy to you, do you automatically think about sweating it out at a gym? Think again. Physical therapy goes far beyond a few exercises to help people overcome painful conditions of all kinds.

If you’re among the 50 million Americans who struggle with chronic pain, relief is your top priority. Through regenerative medicine, we not only bring relief, we help your body rebuild the damaged tissue for long-term success.

Back pain, especially in your lower back, has a way of hijacking every aspect of your life, making finding relief a priority. Here, we explore how an epidural steroid injection may be just the solution you’re looking for.

If you struggle with chronic pain, especially in your back or neck, your posture can influence the issue in both directions: Bad posture can exacerbate the issue, while good posture may help alleviate some of your discomfort.

The human nervous system is incredibly complex and there’s much we still don’t understand, which is certainly true of phantom limb pain. Thankfully, we do have effective solutions for managing the pain and discomfort.

Spoiler alert: Most forms of arthritis aren’t curable, yet, but we’re making great inroads in managing joint diseases of all kinds. Read on to explore how we can help you lead a happy and active life when you have arthritis.

If you’re among the millions of Americans who struggle with debilitating and chronic migraines, there’s hope in the form of BOTOX® injections, which can reduce their frequency. Here’s a closer look at why you may want to consider BOTOX.

Commonwealth Pain and Spine Partners with NeuroFlow to Support Behavioral Health of Patients During COVID-19 and Beyond. Technology allows clinicians to monitor patient-generated insights, and bridge the gap between mental and physical health.

Approximately 15% of women in their childbearing years experience chronic pelvic pain, making the problem fairly widespread. If you’re struggling with ongoing pelvic pain, here’s a look at when medications may provide the best solution.

If you’re among the millions of Americans who struggle with chronic back pain, radiofrequency ablation may provide the relief you’ve been longing for. Explore how this innovative treatment goes straight to the source of your pain — your nerves.

If you’re in pain because of a damaged vertebra, a kyphoplasty may offer the perfect solution. This innovative procedure not only alleviates the pain, it can also restore your spine to its normal height.

Do you wake to knees that ache, or do you struggle with knee pain after activity? If you want to put a spring back in your step, you may want to consider a genicular nerve block, which can provide you with immediate relief.

Is chronic pelvic pain interfering with your life? If noninvasive therapies haven’t provided relief and you don’t want to undergo surgery, learn how these in-office injections can help you find relief with other treatments have failed.

That telltale shooting pain can strike at any time — wrapping gifts, decorating a tree, or sitting in traffic. Is your sciatica acting up? It could be due to the extra winter weight you’re carrying. Find out how pounds and pain are connected.

When you have back pain, it’s easy to assume a pulled muscle is to blame. But your discomfort could due to a herniated disc. Don’t ignore the signs of this common cause of back pain; we can help you find relief fast.

People with diabetes may be at risk for severe and often painful nerve damage. Read on to learn more about how symptoms of diabetes are linked to neuropathy and how you and your physician can treat this condition.

If you suffer from chronic pain, a nerve block may be able to help. Nerve blocks are effective and have few side effects. Read on to learn how they work and how they may be able to help you.

The role that your psychological health plays in your physical health can be significant, which is especially true when it comes to dealing with chronic pain. Here’s how a psychological assessment can shed light on this influence.

When arthritis pain leads you to become increasingly dependent on pain medications, it’s time to consider an alternative treatment. Regenerative medicine is a breakthrough in treating arthritis pain. Find out how.

Due to new techniques and technologies, spinal cord stimulators are helping more and more men and women manage their chronic pain and lessen their dependence on drugs. Read on to see if a spinal cord stimulator can help you.

Spinal stenosis puts pressure on the spinal cord and nerves within the spine. It commonly occurs in the neck and lower back. The condition is often caused by age-related wear and tear.

Yoga’s extremely beneficial for those who want to be healthier or in better shape overall, both physically and mentally. It’s also a great way to help reduce lower back pain and other types of chronic pain.

The Center for Disease Control or CDC published its latest Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain in March of 2016. They help medical professionals prescribe opioids to patients 18 and older. The guidelines are recommendations, not law.

Keeping tabs on your resting heart rate is crucial when it comes to taking certain types of medications, being on certain types of treatments, and with varying health conditions such as MS or heart conditions.

Although back pain may not receive as much attention as more life-threatening diseases such as diabetes and heart disease, it is still nothing to scoff at. Back pain conditions and disorders are the primary cause of disabilities for Americans under 45.

Though it is not always discussed as frequently in the United States, chronic pain affects more Americans than diabetes, heart disease, and cancer put together.

There is hope for patients with chronic neck and back pain; thanks to an innovative procedure.

Chronic body pain can be a major obstacle for anyone to overcome. Conditions such as chronic back pain or neck pain are often burdensome and, at times, debilitating.