by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) | Apr 30, 2012 | Articles
GENERAL Just like in the low back, so in the neck, the spinal joints (zygoapophycial joints) over time, degenerate and eventually suffer from osteoarthritis. This condition is called by some as cervical spondylosis and others, as known in common, cervical syndrome....
by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) | Mar 19, 2012 | Interviews- Experts Articles
Written by Karen Lee Richards 12584 Thu, March 08, 2012 In April 2009 I told you about a pilot study in which low-dose naltrexone (LDN) showed great promise as a fibromyalgia treatment. In that study, all 10 of the participants reported a reduction in fibromyalgia...
by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) | Jan 29, 2012 | Advises For Patients
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine is a very useful test, which without the patient received radiation, gives us much information about the condition of vertebrae, intervertebral discs, nerve roots, the height of the intervertebral spaces and the...
by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) | Jan 24, 2012 | Articles, Minimal Invasive Pain Therapies
ANATOMY The pain signals from visceral organs of the upper abdomen (pancreas, liver, spleen, gall bladder, stomach, small intestine, kidney, adrenal gland) are transferred to the spinal cord and from there to the brain via the splanchnic nerves. The splanchnic nerves...