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...
We have all heard enough about COVID to know that it is a disease you don't want to get. When symptoms are mild or you recover quickly, COVID can be little more than inconvenient. But for some people, COVID becomes a long-haul disease, and it...
The medical community can sometimes be its own worst enemy. For example, in an effort to be as specific as possible we sometimes create terms that end up being unnecessarily confusing. Two such terms are 'sports pain' and 'sports injuries'. The terms are confusing because...