As a leading pain management clinic in Weatherford Texas, Lone Star offers a variety of alternative treatments, including spinal cord stimulation and radiofrequency neurotomy. Our treatments are designed to help patients who have tried traditional therapies but with no success. One of the more recent...
A recently released study designed to measure the frequency of opioid prescriptions among cancer patients and others suffering from chronic pain shows very promising results. It would appear as though patients are taking fewer opioid medications for pain. Opioid medications do have a legitimate place in...
The pain medicine doctors at Lone Star Pain Medicine have access to a wide range of treatments. A number of our treatments are administered as soft-tissue injections. We appreciate this particular modality because injections are minimally invasive. Do not feel you need to avoid seeing one...
Bursitis is a fairly common condition that people are more susceptible to as they age. Given that bursa are located throughout the body, you might be confused as to why the condition seems to be more common in specific locations – like the knee or...
A couple of years ago, we published a blog post discussing sciatica as one of the most common complaints in pain management. The post got a lot of attention from our regular readers. With that in mind, we thought we would put together another post...
Do you suffer from any form of lumbar pain? Do you live in the greater Dallas area? If you answered 'yes' to both questions, we invite you to learn more about the lumbar sympathetic block. It is a fairly straightforward and safe procedure we offer...
Degenerative disk disease (DDD) affects people all over the world. It is quite painful and, in some cases, even debilitating. Here at Lone Star Pain Medicine, we can treat DDD with nerve blocks, discoplasty, and even spinal cord stimulators. But now a breakthrough treatment using...
Some 20 years ago, pain medicine was not the recognized specialty it is today. Patients suffering with chronic pain or debilitating acute pain would see their GPs or family doctors. As trained internists, those doctors did the best they could with the knowledge they had....
Chronic pancreatitis can cause severe pain in the abdomen, pain that can travel up the back and into the neck. While Lone Star doctors do not necessarily treat the disease itself, we do offer multiple treatments for the pain caused by chronic pancreatitis. So we...
We cannot tell you how often pain management doctors consult with patients about fatigue. Chronic pain and fatigue go hand-in-hand for a lot of patients. Unfortunately, the fatigue aspect is often dismissed by family members, colleagues, and even some in the medical profession. Here is...