Comprehensive Spine Center Blog Posts

You’ve prepared for your spine surgery, but are you also prepared to manage your pain post-surgery? Our spine specialists have a couple of helpful guidelines to best help you manage after surgery.

What can you do to best prepare for your upcoming spine surgery? Check out our thorough list of tips.

Recent advances in pain management has given patients more recovery options. Explore your options and discuss with your doctor which one is right for you.

You’ve found the right pain specialists and made your first appointment. What now? There’s a right way to ensure your first appointment goes as smoothly and as helpful as possible. Our team has the tips you need to prepared for your pain consultation.

Plasma Rich Protein injections, as well as corticosteroid injections have shown when administered into the joint, it helps patients relieve pain and aid healing. There are many instances when a blind injection is utilized, or an Ultrasound is used to try and confirm...

The rotator cuff is comprised of four muscle-tendon units that stabilize the shoulder ball on its small and relatively flat socket surface. Any or all of these muscle-tendon units can tear, but the most common tear involves the one or two muscle-tendon units that...

At Comprehensive Spine Center, we are using a new state of the art technology called I-PAS to not only diagnose an mTBI, but also treat an mTBI. I-PAS technology allows our specialists to use eye movements and eye reflexes to measure and determine the extent of a brain injury.

An mTBI is an injury to the brain caused by external forces. Common examples that cause an mTBI are motor vehicle accidents (with or without a direct blow to the head), sports related injuries, falls or explosive blasts. Patients may or may not suffer a loss of consciousness for an mTBI to occur.

An individual who has an injury will typically reach for an ice pack and/or heating pad to help alleviate their symptoms. Treating pain with a hot and/or cold element can be extremely effective, however; in many instances it is unclear to know which situation calls...

Platelet activation plays a key role in the body's natural healing process. Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) injection therapy combines a concentration of the patient's own platelets to accelerate the healing of injured tendons, ligaments, muscles and joints. In this way,...

Have you ever considered that what you’re eating might be contributing to your chronic pain? Your immune system becomes activated anytime it recognizes anything that is foreign – such as pollen, microbes or chemicals. This often triggers a process commonly known as...

Big bags are not only a fashion statement, they can also be the root cause of the nagging pain in your back.

Comprehensive Spine Center of Dallas is pleased to announce our expansion into South Dallas with our newest location in Lancaster at 2700 W Pleasant Run Road, Suite 210 (West entrance). The Lancaster office is the fourth Comprehensive Spine Center location in the...