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5 Steps to Improve your Disc Health to Avoid Back and Neck Pain

Americans are no strangers to spine issues that lead to back and neck pain. A great way to fight back against debilitating back and neck pain is to promote great disc health, and here we get into a few best practices.

Oct 8th, 2025

Could Piriformis Syndrome Be Causing Your Sciatica Discomfort?

Sciatica is a common issue that strikes millions of Americans each year. It’s largely associated with herniated discs, but not always. Sometimes, piriformis syndrome is to blame, and we discuss that here.

Oct 6th, 2025

Preventing Knee Pain from Worsening: Why You Should Always Seek Early Treatment

Ignoring pain anywhere in your body is never a great idea, but it can be especially harmful if you ignore knee pain. Given how important your knee joints are, you should act quickly when pain strikes.

Sep 11th, 2025

5 Benefits of MLS® Laser Therapy for Tendon Pain

Humans have hundreds of tendons in their bodies, so it’s little wonder that painful tendon issues are so common. Thankfully, our MLS® laser technology is answering the call when it comes to tendinopathies.

Sep 11th, 2025

Strategies for Dealing With Failed Back Surgery Syndrome

It’s incredibly frustrating to make the big decision to undergo spine surgery, only to find that the procedure failed and you’re still experiencing back pain. In this blog post, we review strategies for moving forward.

Aug 7th, 2025

Can Trigger Point Therapy Help My Headaches?

Did you know that there are more than 150 types of headaches? When it comes to the more common ones, such as tension headaches and migraines, trigger point therapy can be a great solution.

Aug 7th, 2025

Men: Explore How Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy Can Boost Your Sexual Health

A healthy sex life is important for your overall well-being, so if you’re struggling with erectile dysfunction or Peyronie’s disease, learn how extracorporeal shockwave therapy can help you reclaim a happy sex life.

Jul 14th, 2025

Back Muscle Strain vs. Herniated Disc: How to Tell the Difference

Two of the most well traveled roads to lower back pain are muscle strains and herniated discs, which are entirely different conditions. Let’s look at the differences between them so we can get you on the correct road to relief.

Jul 1st, 2025

3 Effective Treatment Options for Peripheral Neuropathy

Peripheral neuropathy affects about 20 million Americans; the nerve damage it causes can lead to anything from pain to numbness and tingling. Here’s a look at several great treatment options that can bring you relief.

Jun 1st, 2025

How to Improve Your Posture for Less Chronic Pain

Did your parents nag you to sit or stand up straight? Like much of their other advice, it turns out they were right. Bad posture can exacerbate and even lead to chronic pain, so let’s work on good posture.

May 8th, 2025

5 Smart Ways to Manage Your Degenerative Arthritis

When you’re dealing with a health condition that’s degenerative and incurable, like arthritis, management is the key to success. With that in mind, we review 5 great strategies for managing your degenerative arthritis.

May 2nd, 2025

4 Great Benefits of Trigger Point Injections

We hear a lot about how everything is connected in the human body. This becomes very clear when you have a trigger point that’s causing local and referred pain. Thankfully, we have trigger point injections to provide relief.

Apr 10th, 2025

3 Effective Sciatica Treatments to Consider

There are many roads to back pain, but sciatica is one of the more uncomfortable — even a sneeze can be agony. So let’s focus here on pain relief from this common type of back pain.

Apr 1st, 2025

4 Tips for Protecting Your Knees Against Sports Injuries

If you hang around athletes long enough, you’re bound to hear a story or two about knee injuries. To steer clear of being sidelined by a knee problem, we want to review some key best practices.

Mar 10th, 2025

Nip Spring Allergies in the Bud With These Tips

When they say, “Spring is in the air,” it spells bad news for you, thanks to seasonal allergies. To minimize the impact of spring allergies, we outline a few great strategies that will have you breathing easy.

Mar 10th, 2025

When Pain in Your Back Travels Down to Your Legs

Back pain is already tough to deal with, but when symptoms go down into your legs, life can get even more challenging. Called lumbar radiculopathy, here’s what we want you to know about it.

Feb 12th, 2025

4 Great Strategies for Managing Migraines

You feel like you’re living with something lurking in the shadows, ready to strike at any time. That’s how many people with chronic migraines describe the condition and, if it sounds familiar, these strategies can help.

Feb 1st, 2025

Does a Herniated Disc Go Away on Its Own?

You’re dealing with a painful herniated disc in your lower back or neck, and you want to know whether there’s an end in sight. The answer is usually yes, but you can do some things to speed recovery.

Jan 14th, 2025

Your Treatment Options for Fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia can be challenging and frustrating, as there’s no magic bullet cure. That said, there are treatment options that can help improve your quality of life and relieve your discomfort.

Jan 9th, 2025

4 Ways to Protect Your Back in the New Year and Beyond

You’re no stranger to back pain, and you’d rather the condition didn’t follow you into the new year. To that end, we gathered some great strategies for preventing back pain next year, and beyond.

Dec 5th, 2024

Dealing With Chronic Pain During the Holidays? It Doesn’t Have to Hold You Back

Pain has a way of hogging the spotlight, and you’d rather it wasn’t front and center during the holidays. Here are some great strategies that can help you keep the focus on holiday cheer and not your chronic pain.

Dec 1st, 2024

Why Early Intervention for Diabetic Neuropathy is so Important

About half of people with diabetes will develop nerve damage, or neuropathy. This common diabetic complication is by no means inevitable, and it can be minimized with early intervention.

Nov 2nd, 2024

Diabetes Doesn’t Have to Drag You Down If You Learn Your ABCs

From blindness to infected foot ulcers, the complications from diabetes can affect you from head to toe. Here are some great management strategies for steering clear of the serious health issues that are linked to diabetes.

Nov 2nd, 2024

Laser Therapy Is a Great Way to Address Nagging Tendinitis

Whether you’re an athlete dealing with tennis elbow or you’ve been hobbled by Achilles tendinitis, you want to get back to moving without pain. Laser therapy may hold the key to repairing these soft tissues injuries.

Oct 17th, 2024

The Toll of Chronic Pain: The Lesser-known Ways it Affects Your Life

Chronic pain can, of course, limit your activities, and it doesn’t exactly encourage a good mood. But the effects are more far-reaching than you might realize. Here, we take a look at the wide net that chronic pain casts, as well as how we can help.

Sep 23rd, 2024

Non-Diabetic Neuropathy: Who is at Risk, and What Are its Effects?

Peripheral neuropathy is closely tied to diabetes, but diabetes is far from the only road to nerve damage. In fact, there are more than 100 different types of neuropathy, and we review a few of them here.

Sep 23rd, 2024

Can Trigger Point Injections Help My Lower Back Pain?

All it takes is twisting a certain way, lifting something, or taking a misstep, and your lower back is suddenly in pain. If this sounds familiar, trigger point injections may be a great solution for getting you much-needed relief.

Aug 7th, 2024

3 Great Tips for Managing Fall Allergies

While many of us look forward to fall as a break from the summer heat, others greet this season with less enthusiasm thanks to fall allergies. Here are some tips to help you better weather seasonal allergies.

Aug 5th, 2024

Back Pain, Fatigue, Fogginess — The Many Faces of Fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia can cast a very wide net over your health as it includes physical, mental, and cognitive symptoms. Here’s a look at some of the leading side effects, which range from back pain to mental fog.

Jul 26th, 2024

Is It Neck Strain or a Tension Headache?

You’re starting to dread working at your computer, thanks to pain in your shoulders, neck, and around the back of your head that flares up not long after you sit down. What’s bothering you — a tension headache or neck strain?

Jul 26th, 2024

3 Noninvasive Sciatica Treatments

Whether this is your first run around with sciatica or you’ve been down this road before, it’s one painful situation you don’t want to be in. Here are some treatments that won’t add to your sciatica discomfort.

Jun 20th, 2024

4 Potential Culprits Behind Your Knee Pain

Nothing can hobble you quite like knee pain. The first step toward relief is figuring out what’s causing the discomfort. Here, we take a look at some of the more common knee issues we see.

Jun 5th, 2024

5 Common and Painful Lower Back Conditions

Citizens around the world are no strangers to lower back pain, which affects a whopping 619 million people, and counting. While there are many roads to back pain, here are five we see the most.

May 20th, 2024

Can Neuropathy Cause Numbness or Tingling Only?

We often associate peripheral neuropathy with pain, but many people are saddled with numbness and tingling instead. While these symptoms may not be painful, they can be problematic.

May 20th, 2024

Tips for Avoiding Sciatica During Pregnancy

Your body goes through an amazing number of changes during pregnancy, and not all of them are good. As an example, sciatica is a common problem later in pregnancy, but not an inevitable one.

Apr 11th, 2024

Bouncing Back After Tearing Your Meniscus

You’ve been sidelined by a torn meniscus, and you’re anxious to get back to moving freely again. Whether you want to hit the pickleball courts or simply walk the dog, here’s what you can expect.

Apr 11th, 2024

4 Great Strategies for Less Back Pain Later In Life

Sure, some parts of aging are inevitable, but back pain certainly doesn’t have to be one of them. If you want to steer clear of back pain as you get older, we suggest you follow these best practices.

Mar 12th, 2024

Life After a Knee Dislocation

Navigating life after a knee injury can be tricky, which certainly holds true for a knee dislocation. Here are some points we want you to consider as you take steps toward a healthier knee.

Mar 12th, 2024

Shoe Buying Hacks to Relieve Knee Pain

You used to jump out of bed, but these days, it’s more of a hobble, thanks to ongoing knee pain. While we can do our part to relieve your knee pain, what you put on your feet can also make a difference.

Feb 1st, 2024

4 Major Benefits of Our Primary Care Services

Your health is important, and you want to know that it’s in good hands, with a primary care team that understands your unique needs. Here are some reasons why we believe our team excels in primary care.

Feb 1st, 2024

Why Does My Back Hurt Postpartum?

You probably expected some sleepless nights after having a baby, and perhaps you even knew about the possibility of the postpartum blues. But you never expected to have a backache that seems like it’ll never go away! Here’s what you need to know.

Jan 19th, 2024

8 Signs You Have Neuropathy

Peripheral neuropathy is a condition that affects any of the nerves outside of the brain and spinal cord – but how do you know you have it? Read on to discover signs that you may be living with neuropathy and what you can do.

Jan 19th, 2024

At-Home Strategies to Alleviate Arthritis Pain

Is arthritis pain your constant companion these days? Up to 25% of Americans have some form of arthritis. While it’s important to get medical treatment, learn what you can do at home to ease your symptoms.

Dec 13th, 2023

Who’s At Risk for BPH and Is it Preventable?

Many men are living with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), but are you at risk? Keep reading to learn more about BPH and ways to prevent it as you age.

Dec 13th, 2023

These are 5 of the Most Common Allergens

Curious about the most common allergy triggers? Uncover the answers in our latest blog. 

Nov 3rd, 2023

 What's Causing My Back to Hurt?

Back pain is frustrating — and not knowing where it’s coming from can send you over the edge. Stop wondering and worrying. Our team of experts is here to help you understand what’s causing your back pain and resolve it. 

Nov 1st, 2023

How Laser Therapy Can Ease Your Carpal Tunnel Discomfort

Is carpal tunnel syndrome making it difficult for you to do everyday tasks? Learn how laser therapy can ease carpal tunnel discomfort and let you get back to your life.

Oct 4th, 2023

These are The Main Differences Between Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes

Diabetes is the most common endocrine disorder, and there are many types of diabetes, including type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes. Read on as we unpack the differences between type 1 and type 2 and how you can treat each one.

Oct 4th, 2023

Is Working from Home a Pain in Your Neck?

Have you developed neck pain — or has it gotten worse — since you started working from home? If so, read on to learn more about this connection and how you can relieve your neck pain.

Sep 1st, 2023

7 Conditions that Respond Well to Trigger Point Injections

Could you benefit from trigger point injections to deal with muscle pain and tension? Here are some conditions that can improve with trigger point injections.

Sep 1st, 2023

Eczema Explained: What Causes It and How Can I Improve it?

Do you have eczema? This skin condition causes dryness, itching, and irritation in your skin. Learn more about irritants, allergens, and eczema, and how you can improve your skin and attain symptom relief.

Aug 1st, 2023

Why You Should Consider Cold Laser Therapy to Treat Your Sciatica

Are you looking for a noninvasive, non-addictive treatment for your sciatica? Here’s what you should know about the benefits of cold laser therapy.

Aug 1st, 2023

How IV Therapy Can Help You Sleep Better

Good sleep is essential for your physical and mental health, but sometimes good sleep just doesn’t come easy. Thankfully, there are many strategies for improving your sleep, and IV therapy could be one of them. Read on to learn more.

Jul 1st, 2023

I Was Hurt in a Car Accident: Can You Help?

If you’re having signs of neck or back pain after a car accident, what should you do? Take a moment to learn how we can help reduce your pain, improve functionality, and restore your quality of life.

Jul 1st, 2023

Understanding Your Medical Pain Relief Options

Chronic pain affects all areas of your life and can make even things you enjoy difficult. We offer a range of pain relief options and describe several you may not be aware of here. Keep reading to learn about how to manage your pain holistically.

Jun 1st, 2023

Why Diabetics Are at Risk of Peripheral Neuropathy

You have so much to think about when you have diabetes, like logging in exercise, watching your diet, monitoring your blood sugar, and keeping your weight down. You can also add checking for nerve damage to your list, and here’s why.

Jun 1st, 2023

How to Beat the Attacks of Allergy Season

Spring is beautiful, but if you have seasonal allergies it can also be miserable. In this post, we discuss how you can avoid those sudden attacks that leave you feeling less than excited about the budding flowers and leaves.

May 1st, 2023

What's the Link Between Nutrition and Headaches?

You already know that what you eat and drink plays a role in how you feel day to day, but have you thought about how it could impact your headaches? Learn about the connection here.

May 1st, 2023

How Nonsurgical Treatment Works for Your ACL Injury

If you’ve experienced an ACL injury, you may be facing surgery. Depending on the severity of the injury, nonsurgical treatment may be an option as well. Read on to find out more!

Apr 1st, 2023

Understanding How the M6 MLS Robotic Laser Can Treat Your Sciatica

Severe, persistent, or recurrent sciatica can limit your daily activities, disrupt your sleep, or even become disabling. Find out how the noninvasive M6 MLS® robotic laser relieves sciatica pain to help you get back to your active life.

Apr 1st, 2023

The Importance of Primary Care

It’s essential for your overall health and well-being to have a primary care provider to check in with regularly. Find out more about the importance of primary care here.

Mar 7th, 2023

5 Ways to Help Prevent Your Sciatica from Acting Up

Sciatica is a common problem that affects about 40% of people at some point in their lives. While most people recover fully, the problem can recur under the right conditions. Here are five ways to keep a sciatica flare-up at bay.

Mar 1st, 2023

Everyday Habits That Could Be Contributing to Your Sciatica Pain

While your sciatic nerve may not cross your mind daily, it likely becomes one of the only things you can think about when sciatica pain strikes. Here are some everyday habits that can worsen sciatica pain.

Feb 14th, 2023

Understanding What Can Cause Migraine Stress Headaches

Your painful migraines can upend your social life as well as your work. Learn about the causes and triggers of migraines while you seek treatment for them.

Feb 8th, 2023

5 Reasons Why You Might Have Knee Pain

When your knee hurts, just taking a leisurely stroll can be a real pain, and playing your sport could be impossible. Sometimes you know why your knee hurts. Other times you’re not sure. Following are five causes that could be behind your knee pain.

Jan 2nd, 2023

Can My Type 2 Diabetes Be Reversed?

If you’ve received a Type 2 diabetes diagnosis, you may be wondering if there’s a chance this condition is reversible. We explain how to manage this metabolic condition here.

Jan 1st, 2023

How To Relieve Peripheral Neuropathy Pain At Night

Peripheral neuropathy is a serious condition that affects 20 million people in the United States. Fortunately, the symptoms can be relieved.

Dec 27th, 2022

5 Tips for Traveling With Lower Back Pain

Forget traveling in style. When you have back pain, you simply want to get from point A to point B without a flare-up. With our help, you can. Keep reading to get our best tips on managing your back pain when you travel.

Dec 1st, 2022

What to Expect from Advanced Spinal Decompression

Whether you’re active in sports, love to walk or run, or just find yourself lifting heavy items around the house, back pain will eventually find you. When it does, treatments like spinal decompression can help.

Dec 1st, 2022

How Effective Are Viscosupplement Injections in Remedying Knee Pain?

If knee pain has you sitting on the sidelines, it’s time to find a better treatment. But don’t worry, that doesn’t necessarily mean surgery. Instead, injection therapy could be the answer you’ve been searching for, especially with hyaluronic acid.

Nov 1st, 2022

Preventing and Managing Neuropathy When You Have Diabetes

While many complications stem from diabetes, nerve damage is one of the more common — and more serious. There are steps you can take to prevent and better manage diabetic neuropathy.

Nov 1st, 2022

Common Causes of Failed Back Surgery and What You Can Do About It

Back surgery is supposed to address chronic pain, but if your surgery didn’t work, you’re not alone. Find out why and what you can do now. Keep reading to learn more about life after failed back surgery.

Oct 1st, 2022

Suffering From Knee Arthritis? Trigger Point Injections May Help

Millions of Americans live with chronic pain from arthritis. When the disease affects the joints in your knees, trigger point injections may be the solution you need to ease knee arthritis pain. Read on to learn more.

Sep 23rd, 2022

Deep Tissue Laser Therapy: The Noninvasive Solution to Lower Back Pain You Haven't Tried

Lower back pain is a common condition for millions in the US, and there are a variety of ways to treat it. If you’re looking for a cutting-edge, nonsurgical way to relieve back pain then perhaps it’s time you tried deep tissue laser therapy.

Sep 1st, 2022

The Benefits of a Multifaceted Treatment Approach for Peripheral Neuropathy

When it comes to peripheral neuropathy, don’t just settle for medications that may temporarily relieve your pain. Find out why it’s important to look at the problem from all angles to find the underlying cause.

Sep 1st, 2022

Why Your Posture Problems Are Literally a Pain in the Neck

If your neck pain is becoming too much of a pain in the neck to handle, find out how improving your posture could relieve your discomfort.

Aug 1st, 2022

10 Benefits of IV Therapy

If you’re feeling worn out, sick, or even hungover, it’s time to consider the many benefits intravenous (IV) therapy offers. Learn more about IV therapy and how it improves your vitality and long-term health.

Aug 1st, 2022

Why It Is Important to See a Doctor if You Are Suffering From Erectile Dysfunction

Erectile dysfunction is a lot more common than most men realize, but that doesn’t mean it’s OK to ignore it. A medical evaluation can determine the cause of your ED in addition to relieving its symptoms.

Jul 1st, 2022

When to Consider Surgery For Your Herniated Disc

When you have a herniated disc, the pain can be unbearable. There are treatments that help, but what should you do if the pain persists? Keep reading to learn when you might want to contemplate having surgery to repair your injured disc.

Jul 1st, 2022

How to Ease Your Knee Pain Without Surgery

Knee pain can become gradually worse over time, and eventually some cases need surgery. Here’s how you can avoid the preparation, pain, and recovery that comes with a knee operation.

Jun 1st, 2022

Is Spinal Stenosis Reversible?

Your spinal canal has just enough space for your nerves to run through it, but if it narrows — a condition called spinal stenosis — it pinches your nerves. Can anything restore your spine to its original condition? Find out here.

Jun 1st, 2022

5 Encouraging Facts About Sciatica

When the pain of sciatica hits, it may be hard to think positively about the condition. Despite the sometimes severe pain, the underlying causes for this group of symptoms are typically easy to treat.

May 1st, 2022

How to Manage Back Pain After an Accident

Many people brush off their aches and pains following an accident, but back injuries should be taken seriously. Here’s how a specialist can help manage and treat back pain.

May 1st, 2022

How Biologics Can Help You Heal from Within

Your body is miraculous. It has immense healing powers that just need to be triggered for you to relieve pain and experience recovery. Biologics are an alternative to drug-based interventions. Here’s how they can help you heal from the inside out.

Apr 1st, 2022

Simple Exercises You Can Do to Strengthen Your Neck

Are you familiar with “text neck”? Your neck muscles become fatigued from too much time spent looking down at your phone or staring at a computer screen. Perhaps you’ve had a neck injury. No matter the cause, try these simple neck exercises.

Apr 1st, 2022

How PRP Injections Help with Joint Pain

Tired of joint pain slowing you down? Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy can help ease pain and restore function — no drugs or surgery required. Sound too good to be true? Keep reading to learn more.

Mar 2nd, 2022

When Is Your Headache a Cause for Concern?

If you’re experiencing a debilitating headache and don’t know whether it’s a harmless symptom or something more serious, read on. Our experts explain what symptoms differentiate a harmless headache from a potentially dangerous one.

Mar 1st, 2022

5 Signs of Sciatica

As many as 4 in 10 Americans deal with sciatica, a collection of symptoms caused by compression or irritation of the sciatic nerve. The specific causes of sciatica can vary, but there are common signs that suggest you have the condition.

Feb 9th, 2022

How Chiropractic Care Helps You Overcome Injuries

A healthy body is in homeostasis, a state in which it’s able to heal itself. But when you’re in an accident, your body needs help to heal injured tissue, bone, and misalignments. Chiropractic care helps you heal and get back in homeostasis.

Feb 7th, 2022

Let IV Nutritional Therapy Boost Your Immunity this Flu and Cold Season

Worried about the flu and colds this year? IV nutritional therapy provides your immune system with the boost it needs to keep germs at bay. Here’s how it works.

Jan 18th, 2022

Recognizing the Early Signs of Peripheral Neuropathy

Peripheral neuropathy is a condition that damages nerves, but can also affect your digestion, urination, and blood circulation. Read on to find out more about how to catch the early signs of this potentially dangerous nerve issue.

Jan 11th, 2022

What Are The Stages of Peripheral Neuropathy?

Peripheral Neuropathy affects more than 20 million people in the United States. With it being so prevalent, it’s important to remain educated on what causes peripheral neuropathy and all of the stages neuropathy takes on. Peripheral neuropathy occurs...

Dec 8th, 2021

5 Natural Methods That May Help Improve Your Erectile Dysfunction

Erectile Dysfunction or ED, occurs when a male penis cannot have or sustain an erection. If this is something you deal with, you are not alone. It affects more than 30 million men in the United States alone! 

Nov 30th, 2021

Scoliosis Pain? Understand Your Treatment Options

Scoliosis management is complex, and it is mainly dictated by the type of scoliosis encountered. There are syndromic, congenital, neuromuscular, or idiopathic. The seriousness of the curvature and skeletal maturity, which help predict the likelihood of...

Nov 19th, 2021

Non-Surgical Treatment for Spinal Stenosis

Lower back and neck pain can make you put a pause on daily activities you love to participate in as a result of pain. If you are living with pain and it is slowly getting worse with time and the ways in which you are coping with it are...

Nov 3rd, 2021

Spinal Decompression Treatment for Chronic Back Pain

Back pain affects about 65 million Americans each year, and is also the 6th most costly condition in the United States. Back pain can stem from a variety of causes, such as injury, arthritis, sciatica, and more. If one continues to live with back pain...

Sep 16th, 2021

Can Neuropathy Be Cured?

Many people wonder whether or not neuropathy is a curable condition. To answer this question, yes it is curable, but this comes with active treatment once a patient is diagnosed with neuropathy. Neuropathy affects more than 20 million Americans...

Sep 14th, 2021

The Top Symptoms and Causes of Peripheral Neuropathy

Neuropathy is a condition of the nervous system that affects more than 20 million Americans. This common condition is a result of damage to the Peripheral Nervous System, which is responsible for sending signals between the brain and the rest of the body.

Aug 4th, 2021

Knee Pain: Causes, Factors, and Getting Treatment

Our knees are one of the most important parts of our body, but they can also be known as one of the most problematic. Knee pain affects around 100 million Americans every year, and knee pain is also the second leading cause of chronic pain.

Jul 15th, 2021

Commonly Misdiagnosed: Arthritis

A lot of patients come to Neuropathy & Pain Centers of Texas with a misdiagnosis and report, “I was diagnosed with arthritis by my doctor.” To which we usually respond, “Okay, how? Did the doctor take an X-Ray? Orthopedic evaluation? Did they do anything?”

Jun 17th, 2021