It creaks in the night. It stops you dead in your tracks. You can't leave home because it is out there, waiting for you.  It will take you in the night when you make your next strenuous move. Your fear of recurring back or neck pain has left you a recluse, shut away, unable to interact with society.

A little nick or two here and there when you’re shaving in the morning is fine. You might apply a styptic pencil if the cut just won’t stop bleeding, but in most cases, you’re going to just slap on the aftershave, shrug it off, and go to work. Not all nicks that the human body can endure are the same, however. For instance, if that tiny nick occurs to the membrane surrounding the spinal cord during back surgery, no styptic pencil or aftershave in the world is going to help.

When lower back pain stops you from living life the way you want, it’s time to seek expert medical care. Take a look at how Dr. Deuk at Deuk Spine Institute helped Jack Spadaro, an 80-year-young gentleman in Florida get back to his active lifestyle with a simple procedure and no post-operative pain medication. With a little help from Dr. Deuk, people much younger than Jack are amazed at everything he is able to do.

The idea of having spine surgery can be very disconcerting. As a candidate for laser spine surgery, you might have fewer worries than with traditional open back surgery, but you will still have some questions before your procedure.

Doctors and medical professionals often use terms like acute and chronic to describe types of pain in the neck, but what do these terms mean? We share what the difference is between these two medical terms here. 

You know the sudden pain when you burn your finger on a hot pot, hit your thumb with a hammer or even suffer a paper cut? The pain that you immediately feel when you injure yourself is normal, expected and important. Acute pain is sudden and can be considered as your body’s way of alerting you that something is wrong. It makes you stop for a moment, realize what you are doing and prevents you from continuing with the action that caused you pain. However, when you experience pain on a continual basis, such as chronic pain in your neck, this is not normal.

Up to 80 percent of people will suffer from pain in their lower back at one time during their adult lives. It is not uncommon for lower back pain to be caused by a herniated disc in the lumbar area. Also referred to as a “slipped disc,” this condition can cause the leg pain that is associated with sciatica.

First, there was joint FUSION.
Then came joint REPLACEMENT.

Now, finally, Arthroscopic Surgery has replaced the vast majority of joint fusions and artificial joints. Today, arthroscopic surgery is the most common and least invasive treatment for painful knee, shoulder and hip joints.