Orthopedics is the medical specialty that focuses on injuries and diseases of the body’s musculoskeletal system. This complex system includes bones, joints, ligaments, tendons, muscles, and nerves and allows you to move, work, and be active.
Wellmed Orthopedic Center will offer care for patients of all ages, young athletes with sports injuries to older people with arthritis and osteoporosis as well as special care of children with spine and limb deformities.
Orthopaedic Care
- Infective arthritis
- Metabolic bone diseases: including osteoporosis or diseases resulting in reduction in bone mass
- Non-surgical metabolic bone disease
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Traumatic arthritis
- Degenerative Arthritis
- Tendon inflammation
- Low back pain
- Generiled aches & pains
- Vitamin D deficiency
Low Backache and neck pain
Pain is our body’s way of telling us it needs attention. The two primary symptoms of all spine-related conditions are neck and back pain. Neck and back pain can be caused by strain from repetitive use or overextension, or may result from traumatic injury.
Pain is our body’s way of telling us it needs attention. The two primary symptoms of all spine-related conditions are neck and back pain. Neck and back pain can be caused by strain from repetitive use or overextension, or may result from traumatic injury.
Many different tissues can be damaged in a back injury. A fall from a height, can cause severe compression injury and crush the body of a vertebra. A severe twisting injury can fracture the bony arch of one of the vertebrae. Abnormal movements can strain any of the ligaments guarding the spinal joints. If a spinal joint is damaged, the muscles over it usually go into spasm, to fix the joint in a form of natural splint. This response stiffens that part of your back, creating even more pain if you then try to move it against the limiting factor of the tightened muscles.
The discs between your vertebral bones can be damaged in a variety of ways. As you get older, the danger of disc damage increases, because the annulus fibrosus (strong outer part), begins to degenerate, and the inner nucleus pulposus loses its pliability and water-holding capacity.
The neck (cervical spine) is part of the spine and encloses and protects the cervical spinal cord. Neck pain, therefore, is often a response from similar conditions that cause other back pain. Also, like back pain, neck pain may cause referred symptoms, or radiation, along your arm into your hand. A ligament strain or minor damage to a cervical (neck) disc can cause intermittent symptoms that can be relieved by altering the position of the neck. A major disc problem more often causes unremitting pain.
Headaches and dizziness can also be caused by neck problems, either through spasm in the neck muscles or because the injury is interfering with the normal motion of the vertebrae.
Wear-and-tear arthritis can develop in the neck joints, causing pain in the neck with or without referred symptoms in the arms. It is important to maintain as much mobility and strength in the neck as you comfortably can, while avoiding stressing the joints with heavy loading or strenuous sports. Your doctor will advise you on the type and amount of exercise you should be doing on the basis of your symptoms and the changes visible on your xrays.
Specific services we offer for neck and spine disorders:
- Epidural injection
- Selective nerve root block for neck and back pain
- Disc surgery
