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An injury to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in the knee can significantly impact an athlete's ability to participate in their sport. At LA Pain Doctor, our Sports Injury Specialists recognize how frustrating it can be to be sidelined due to an ACL injury. However, it is crucial to prioritize...
No one gets a pass on degenerative disc disease (DDD). By age 40, nearly everyone has it to some degree, whether they have symptoms or not, and it worsens as time goes on. It also worsens when you have another spinal condition at the same time, such as spinal stenosis,...
A long day of gardening or a weekend pick-up game of hoops can leave you with an achy back, but when the pain persists, you may wonder whether you have sciatica. Don’t try to guess the source of your back pain — get answers. LA Pain Doctor is the go-to...
Joint pain can be a debilitating condition that affects your daily life, making even simple tasks a challenge. Traditional treatments often involve pain medications, physical therapy, or surgery, but there’s more interest than ever in a less invasive option: prolotherapy injections. At LA Pain Doctor, our pain management specialists offer...
Anyone who has experienced frozen shoulder will tell you that they’d do just about anything to get relief from the pain and immobility it causes. Like ice, a frozen shoulder can “melt,” and repair itself, but this isn’t guaranteed, and can take months to several years. No one deserves to...
Athletes and highly active people are typically in good overall health. When they require medical attention, it’s usually for injuries sustained during competition or for conditions that hinder their performance. Sports medicine focuses on these sports-related issues with specialized care that gets you back into the game as soon as...
Although Botox® injections are a household name for wrinkle reduction, they aren’t limited to aesthetics. Botox injections can also help treat headaches, and they’ve been approved to do so since 2010, but when do you know if it’s time to try them? At LA Pain Doctor, our team of expert...
Osteoarthritis is just 1 of 100 types of arthritis. Osteoarthritis is known as the wear-and-tear (or degenerative) type of the disease, and it’s characterized by the breakdown of cartilage in your joint. In the case of knee osteoarthritis, the cartilage in your knee breaks down, which then leads to knee...
Many of us will experience muscle pain at some point, and it usually resolves after a few weeks. But for those living with myofascial pain syndrome, that muscle pain persists. When you have myofascial pain syndrome, you have sensitive spots known as trigger points, or muscle knots. Trigger points are...
Your spine provides support for your body and allows you to move, bend, and walk. It’s also responsible for housing your spinal cord, the collection of nerves that enable your brain to communicate with the rest of your body. Due to the wear and tear that your spine sustains on...
As many as 40% of Americans suffer from sciatica at some point during their lives, and for some people, those painful symptoms wind up recurring. Physical therapy helps relieve sciatica pain without long-term use of medication, and it improves your comfort and your quality of life completely noninvasively. At LA...
Your hips are ball-and-socket joints, connecting your legs to your torso. They are integral to your movement, allowing you to stand up, sit down, and walk. Together, your hips support the entire weight of your upper body. Hip pain can originate from various sources. Your first assumption may be that...
If you have a nagging back or neck pain that won't go away, making everyday activities challenging, you may have Degenerative Disc Disease (DDD). The condition happens when the discs in your spine – the little cushions between your bones – start to wear down. These discs break down due...
When you reach your 20s and 30s, your spine is at its peak health. After that, your spine starts to show signs of aging and does so for the remainder of your life. While some people don’t experience noticeable symptoms of an aging spine, others may be much more aware...
As you get older, it’s sometimes difficult to imagine life without aches and pains. Knee arthritis can make it especially tough to maintain an active lifestyle and participate in the sports and leisure activities you’ve always enjoyed. Our team at LA Pain Doctor, expertly treats the pain and stiffness of arthritis so...
Nearly everyone has experienced a headache at some point. Some are mildly discomforting — and can be quickly remedied by loosening a tight hairstyle or removing a too-tight hat — but some headaches can be downright debilitating. Chronic headaches significantly impact your daily life, making even the simplest tasks seem arduous. Our experienced pain...
You may be a candidate for prolotherapy if you suffer from chronic joint pain. This innovative treatment, also known as regenerative injection therapy, stimulates your body’s natural healing ability. At the LA Pain Doctor in Metairie, Laplace, Harvey, New Orleans, and Luling, Louisiana, we can assess your medical history, current condition, and evaluate...
As the longest and thickest nerve in your body, your sciatic nerve allows you to feel and control your hips, legs, and feet. If sciatic nerve pain — also known as sciatica — has ever stopped you in your tracks, you’re not alone: About two in five adults (40%) in...
Your skeleton provides the frame for your ligaments, tendons, muscles, and other connective fibers to build on and a barrier to protect your vital organs. Your spine is the framework for your skeleton, holding up your upper body, connecting your ribs to form the barrier around your heart, lungs, and other organs,...
Migraine headaches are more common than you might realize. Did you know that more than 38 million Americans suffer from migraines? Migraines are also often a chronic problem. You’re defined as having chronic migraines if you have more than 15 headaches, and at least eight migraines, a month for a...
When you visit the doctor with pain in a specific area of your body, you probably assume that the cause of the pain is somewhere in the same region. Referred pain is proof that this isn’t always the case. A condition that causes referred pain is located in one area...
If you had surgery to reduce your chronic back pain, which affects millions of adults in the United States alone, the last thing you want is continued pain. Unfortunately, while back surgery successfully relieves many people, 40% of patients end up with just that — continued pain. Also known as...
Tendonitis is the inflammation and degeneration of the thick cords attaching muscles to bones. Tendons have poor blood supply, so they heal slower. However, most cases of tendonitis go away on their own with rest. If inflammation in your tendon persists and doesn’t get better with rest, it can cause your...
They’re part of the human experience. Almost every person will experience a headache at some point in their lives, and most of us will have several. Since headaches can come from simple causes, like dehydration, they are common. That doesn’t mean persistent headaches are normal, though. If you deal with...
If you have arthritis, you may be less than enthusiastic about the cold days ahead. If your arthritic joints freeze up in the winter, there are ways to free them up and ease the pain even when winter hits. Some people swear they can predict a storm or chilly weather...
Chronic leg pain can interfere with your daily activities and may make it difficult to do your job or even play with your kids. New advances in regenerative medicine, some now available at any of our six convenient LA Pain Doctor locations in Louisiana, may help restore your quality of...
A relatively common repetitive stress injury that athletes sustain is shin splints. If you have this aching pain on the front of your lower legs, you feel it most when you walk or run. Also called medial tibial stress syndrome, it occurs when repetitive stress, such as intense competition in many sports,...
The benefits of an active lifestyle for your physical and mental health are almost innumerable, so you want to do what you can to avoid being sidelined. As any sports medicine specialist will tell you, early detection and intervention are key to this goal, which is why we’re focusing on...
If you’re an athlete and have mercifully escaped an injury to your anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), chances are someone else on your team or in your league has suffered from this unfortunate knee injury: It’s the most common knee injury, and up to 200,000 ACL ruptures (tears) sideline Americans every year. If...
Anyone who lives with neck discomfort knows there’s a good reason we call annoying things a pain in the neck. When you have a stiff, sore, or outright painful neck, the smallest turn of your head can be a problem. Suddenly, doing things you love becomes more challenging. Even sleeping...
If you’ve struggled with back pain for any length of time, you know it can leave you feeling miserable and wondering if there’s a way to find relief. Our physicians at LA Pain Doctor in Luling, Metairie, LaPlace, Harvey, and New Orleans, Louisiana, want you to know that a spinal...
The wear-and-tear of accumulated years and activity, or an injury or degenerative condition like arthritis, can leave you suffering from hip pain. Your hips take a lot of pressure, and need to move smoothly for you to walk and bend. Hip pain makes it difficult to keep up your daily life...
If you’re among the 20% of Americans struggling with chronic pain, you understand the negative impact it can have on your life. From making it difficult to meet family obligations to affecting your ability to perform at work, chronic pain makes nearly everything miserable. While many treatments exist to ease...
Headaches are often easy to dismiss. The demands of everyday life, including job, family commitments, and busy schedules add up to tension, stress, and reaching for the ibuprofen. Coping with the day takes priority, and your discomfort often takes a back seat. However, your lifestyle might be the fuel behind...
Chances are good that you don’t think too much about your arms until one is injured or causes you pain. And at LA Pain Doctor, with six locations across Louisiana, we know it’s challenging to tell the difference between arm pain that will go away on its own and arm...
Your hip joint is not unlike a bungee cord in that it’s both sturdy and flexible. This ball-and-socket joint is your body’s largest, and it carries the weight of your body and allows for a wide range of movement. When hip pain strikes, however, your movement may be seriously limited,...
Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a little-understood condition that usually causes symptoms in your extremities (arms or legs). It can cause issues like sensitivity, burning or throbbing pain, changes in the feel and appearance of your skin, and other unwelcome symptoms. If you’re living with unexplained pain in a...
What’s causing your back pain? Spinal conditions like scoliosis and kyphosis may be the root cause of your back pain problems. At LA Pain Doctor, our team of pain management specialists can help you better understand the root cause of your back pain, and recommend treatment options that can work...
Back pain is the number one cause of missed workdays, but the reality is that back pain doesn’t just affect your career 一 it affects every aspect of your life. And that’s where the pain management specialists at LA Pain Doctor come in. Dr. Firas Hijazi and Dr. Satvik Munshi...
Your sciatic nerves are the longest in your body. They run from the base of your spine, down the back of your legs from your buttocks to your legs. When the sciatic nerve becomes irritated, it creates a condition called sciatica. Many people with sciatica come to us with pain...
Think about the role your back plays in your life — as the foundational structure for your entire body, it’s responsible for much of your support, mobility, and range of motion. Given these duties, it’s hardly surprising that back pain develops as often as it does — in fact, it’s...
Everyone gets a tension headache on occasion. Usually, when you get one of these types of headaches, you can take an analgesic and it goes away. But for about 17% of the population, headaches are a more frequent occurrence that can really interfere with their quality of life. Recurring headaches...
Joint sprains and muscle strains happen in even the most diligent athletes. At LA Pain Doctor, pain management experts Firas Hijazi, MD and Satvik Munshi, MD know how sprains and strains can interfere with your ability to stay active. If you’re sidelined by pain or immobility because of a sprain,...
Shoulder pain is relatively common and has many causes, including adhesive capsulitis — commonly known as a frozen shoulder. While minor shoulder injuries can cause pain and stiffness, these symptoms usually subside with a few days of rest and at-home care. If your symptoms persist, it’s time to talk to...
As pain management specialists, the expert providers at LA Pain Doctor understand that swollen, painful joints can limit your life. Joint pain can prevent you from doing the things you need to do and the things you enjoy doing. Although there is no cure for arthritis, there are treatments and...
Nearly everyone can recall the feeling of having a persistent headache that interferes with their day. What you may not know is that there are over 150 different kinds of headaches that can erupt without much warning and some can pose a serious threat to your health. At LA Pain...
Pain affects everyone differently. What you can tolerate pain-wise may be beyond the limits of what someone else can handle. For this reason, managing pain requires the personalized approach Satvik Munshi, MD, and Firas Hijazi, MD, use at LA Pain Doctor. Our providers offer a variety of interventional pain management...
Sports injuries can be painful and limit your future performance in your favorite sport. At LA Pain Doctor, interventional pain management specialists Firas Hijazi, MD, and Satvik Munshi, MD, understand how complex and disruptive sports injuries can be. The LA Pain Doctor team offers comprehensive treatment services to help you...
Chronic joint pain can change your life for the worse. When every movement you make causes excruciating pain or when you’re limited by joint swelling and stiffness, you’re likely missing out on too much of your life. But you certainly don’t have to live that way. At LA Pain Doctor,...
Smoking is a known cause of many long-term, serious health complications, including lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), and heart disease. But did you know smoking can also increase your risk for chronic back pain due to herniated discs and degenerative disc disease? At LA Pain Doctor, experienced interventional...
After you heal from an injury, like foot trauma or a sprained ankle, you may still experience chronic pain that doesn’t seem to go away. This may be your first indication that you have a condition known as complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS). As experienced pain specialists, the physicians at...
Having back surgery to repair a herniated disc or treat a compression fracture may be effective at relieving chronic pain for many people, but some may still experience persistent post-surgical pain. At LA Pain Doctor, interventional pain management specialists, Firas Hijazi, MD, and Satvik Munshi, MD, are highly skilled in...
Your shoulder is a complex joint that is highly versatile and makes it possible to participate in a wide variety of sports. If you’re into sports that rely on shoulder movements, you may be at increased risk for experiencing a painful shoulder injury. Experienced pain management specialists, Firas Hijazi, MD,...
One in five adults in the United States struggles with chronic pain, to say nothing of the millions more who are coping with acute pain on any given day. At LA Pain Doctor, our team of pain management specialists, led by Drs. Firas Hijazi and Satvik Munshi, understands the incredibly...
Your sciatic nerve is the largest nerve in your body, which is made perfectly clear when it’s been compromised. If you’re in the midst of a sciatica attack, your primary goal is to restore pain-free movement in your lower back and legs. Here at LA Pain Doctor, our team of...
The numbers surrounding the prevalence of arthritis in the United States were thought to be around 54 million, but new reports suggest that this number may be as high as 91 million. And this number is expected to rise over the next 20 years as the population ages. If you...