From my experience over the years, inadequate back strength is a main reason that patients develop chronic debilitating back pain. There are four main reasons most people have not developed an optimal amount of back strength: 1) the main stabilizing muscles of the spine become weakened with age—particularly in…
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Exercise changes the gut? How could that be? And so what does that have to do with inflammation?
Let’s first start with a description of the many co-inhabitants we all have in our guts. The microbiome consists of the trillions of bacteria that thrive in our guts and release substances…
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Here are some tips for improved disc health during physical activity:
1. It’s vitally important to warm up prior to doing a strenuous activity. Pre-loading the disc at a lower resistance increases the ability of the disc to absorb stress and to avoid injury. For example, if you want to…
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Except for a small outer portion, discs do not have a direct blood supply. This is in contrast to joints like the knee, for example, which have direct blood supply through the bone adjacent to the cartilage. In fact, the disc is the largest avascular structure in the whole…
Kamshad Raiszadeh, M.D.
Dr. Raiszadeh's completed medical school at UC San Francisco, orthopedic surgery residency at UC Davis and his Pediatric and Adult Spine Fellowship at the Hospital for Joint Diseases/NYU in New York City. He has 20 years of experience with the broad range of spine surgery including minimally invasive surgery, complex spinal disorders such as scoliosis and kyphosis, and cervical spine disorders. During this 20 years he has noticed a dramatic increase in patients turning to surgery for treatment of neck and low back pain, but many of them not getting their desired long-term result. He therefore became increasingly interested in improvement and standardization of non-operative treatment. By developing the best aspects of non-operative treatment in an atmosphere of empowerment to maximize the body’s own healing capacity, he noticed that many fewer patients required surgery, and the ones who underwent surgery had much better long term results.