Experiencing Back Pain?

Back pain, and especially low back pain, may be due to injury of a muscle (strain), ligament (sprain) or from an inflamed nerve.

Common causes are:

• Improper Injuries relating to weight training, lifting or sports/gym-related injury
• Arthritis
• Ruptured or herniated disc
• History of car accident post-surgery excess scar tissue
• Fracture
• Bad/poor posture
• Lack of regular exercise/sedentary lifestyle
• Nerve root compression

Some low back pain is transient and goes away on its own in two to four weeks. Physical therapy, massage, cortisone injections or NSAID pain relievers may help acutely. However more chronic or severe cases may be ineffective and non-responsive to conventional treatments and require more targeted, functional, and individualized approaches. This is where we can help with your back pain with an alternative diagnostic imaging using high resolution ultrasound with precision delivered injections.

Introducing…

Ultrasound-guided Nerve/Myofascial Plane Hydrodissection

We’ve brought ultrasound-guided nerve hydrodissection to the San Francisco area! Nerve hydrodissection is a safe method of relieving nerve entrapment by injecting regenerative substances around a nerve. This procedure can only be done safely under ultrasound visualization in order to pin-point choke point areas and also to avoid damage to surrounding structures, i.e. blood/lymphatic vessels or going into nerve fibers themselves. The injected fluid is meant to create a “halo” around the nerve to cushion it. This creation of space via injected fluid relieves the pressure off the nerve from the surrounding muscles and separates the nerve from restrictive adhesions or “webs” made by tissue, fascia (connective tissue lining of muscles), post-surgical scar tissue or adjacent structures like bony spurs, etc. Such adhesions restrict the nerve’s mobility and function thereby causing irritation, enlargement and chronic pain over time.

People usually seek out this treatment after having exhausted standards of care with respect to pain management, including acupuncture, physiotherapy and/or surgical interventions.