Dr. Abraham, as a non-operative physician, concentrates on important non-surgical causes of low back pain.
Disk herniation is generally believed to include only 5 % of all cases of low back pain.
Try this short quiz:
- Is my pain worse when I get out of bed?
- Does my pain get worse after prolonged sitting?
- Is my pain worse after prolonged standing or walking?
- Is my pain better for a while after I can change position or activity?
If you answer "yes" to 3 of these, you likely have sacroiliac joint dysfunction as your most basic pain problem.
Only a careful history and exam will diagnose a sacroiliac joint dysfunction, not an MRI, CT, or x-ray.
Dr. Abraham works within a integrated model of specific diagnoses, body posture, pain, position, and movement. Patients with low back pain or "spine" pain suffer from several injured body structures of ligament, joint, tendon, etc. This requires a detailed history and comprehensive "hand-on" exam to get specific diagnosis.
For specific painful areas of muscles, tendons, and ligaments around, Dr. Abraham uses a manipulation system (DonTigny TM method), prolotherapy injections, and rarely steroid or cortisone injections. Dr. Abraham does only non-operative work.
Information for DonTigny TM method is at: www.kalindra.com
Information for prolotherapy is at: www.getprolo.com.
