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How to Prevent Migraines
Throbbing headache. Blurred vision. Sensitivity to light and sound. Nausea. Sound familiar? At least 16 to 17 percent of the world’s population will experience a migraine at some point in their lives, but for many, migraines are a part of daily life.
A migraine can be simply debilitating, when all you can think about is getting to a dark, quiet place to lie down and rest. Migraines can mean missing work or school, and even missing out on important, they-only-happen-once, life events.
There are some medications that can reduce the number and severity of migraines, but lifestyle changes are also strongly recommended to help prevent and/or alleviate the pain associated with migraines. If you suffer from migraines, try these migraine prevention tips.
- Get regular exercise. Aerobic exercise helps to reduce tension and prevent migraines. Choose a form of exercise you enjoy — walking, swimming or cycling or even dancing. Make time for 30 minutes of aerobic exercise every day. Exercise also aids weight loss, which may also help to prevent migraines.
- Avoid migraine triggers. For many people, migraines are triggered by certain food or scents. If you notice that a specific food or scent has triggered migraines in the past, try to avoid them.
- Get plenty of rest. Regular sleep patterns can help to reduce tension and stress that lead to migraines. Establish a regular sleep pattern means going to bed and getting up at the same time, every day. To help yourself sleep, turn off all electronics at least an hour before your bedtime, turn down the lights and allow yourself to relax.
- Reduce stress. Stress is a common cause of migraines. Find ways to reduce your stress, whether through exercise, meditation or simply relaxing at home.
- Reduce estrogen levels. For some women, estrogen can induce migraine headaches or make them work. If this is the case for you, avoid medications such as birth control and other hormone pills that contain estrogen.
If you suffer from chronic migraines, talk with your doctor about pain management and lifestyle changes that may help reduce your headache main.
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Dallas Spine Pain Center, Spine Pain Help Dallas, Dallas Spine Pain Doctors
If you are looking for a specialist in spine surgery, Dallas may be your next destination. BecomePainFree.com’s Dallas office provides:
- A free MRI or CT scan evaluation by medical staff
- Partner physicians board-certified in interventional pain management
- Free educational back pain seminars
- One of the top surgical facilities in the country
Free MRI or CT scan evaluation. Have you tried conservative therapies for your chronic back pain, and wonder if a medical procedure is the next best step? Allow our staff to evaluate your medical case. Our physicians will provide the most conservative recommendation deemed appropriate for your special case.
Free medical referral service. If you choose, your assigned patient coordinator will handle the logistics for any medical procedure recommended by one of our physicians.
Board-certified physicians. Our Dallas-based specialists collectively provide expertise in neurosurgery and interventional pain management, and provide a range of procedures, from epidural steroid injections to spinal fusion. They are unique providers of the BecomePainFree.com procedure.
Free back pain seminar. BecomePainFree.com’s Dallas office provides regular educational seminars so chronic pain sufferers can learn about the BecomePainFree.com procedure and talk directly to someone who can answer all of their questions.
Surgical facility. Victory Medical Center in Plano, TX is one of the newest surgical facilities in Dallas-Fort Worth.
Located in the center of the United States, the Dallas laser spine center also provides a convenient option for chronic back pain sufferers across the country – just a short plane-ride away. BecomePainFree.com’s Dallas office has partnered with the Hyatt Place, for traveling patients.
The BecomePainFree.com headquarters is also in Dallas TX. So when you visit, make sure to say hello to the patient coordinator and insurance teams, who strive to help patients like you find a solution for their pain.
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About us: BecomePainFree.com provides patient advocacy for spine pain sufferers. Patient care may be described as a table with patients on one side looking for a solution, and physicians on the other side providing a service; since BecomePainFree.com does not practice medicine, it is uniquely positioned on the patient’s side of the table, providing a compass to navigate the often confusing world of spine surgery and interventional pain management.
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Herniated discs - Pinched nerves
- Degenerative spine disease
- Spinal stenosis
- Spondylolisthesis (slipped spine)
- Scoliosis (deformity)
- Low back pain / neck pain
- Spine trauma
- Spine infection
- Osteoporotic fractures
- Spine and spinal cord tumors
- Peripheral nerve injury
- Chiari malformation
- Cavernous malformation
- Vascular malformation
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What is Endoscopic Spine Surgery?, Binimally invasive procedure
Our Endoscopic Spine Surgery is a true minimally invasive procedure that has revolutionized the treatment of back and neck pain. If you’re searching for long lasting pain relief, we can help. Call Us: (214) 396-3647 | (888) 373-3720
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- Mostly local anesthesia
- No removal of muscle or bone
- Immediate recovery
- High success rates
- Improved quality of life
- Microscopic incision
- Minimal or no blood loss
- Same day surgery
- Preservation of spinal mobility
- Reduced pain meds
Are you a candidate for Endoscopic Spine Surgery?
When you’re in pain, you don’t want to wait for help. Fill out this personalized pain assessment and our chief surgeon will review your answers and find you a diagnosis. www.becomepainfree.com
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Mayo Clinic, Spine Surgeon, Mayo Clinic Back Surgeon, Mayo Clinic Pain, Mayo Clinic Fellowship Trained Surgeon, Mayo Clinic Doctor, Mayo Clinic Back pain
We have two spine surgeons in our group and one on the way from the world famous Mayo Clinic. These Mayo Clinic surgeons are some of the best in the United States of America both of these Mayo Clinic trained doctors work in Texas. Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio we ave you covered with Mayo Clinic trained spine surgeons. Here is the information on these doctors below.Check out our website at https://www.becomepainfree.com/
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Steven J. Cyr, M.D., FAAOS
Mayo Clinic Trained Spine Physician
Steven J. Cyr, M.D., is a Board Certified Orthopaedic Surgeon who received extensive training to specialize in the delicate science of Spine Surgery. Anyone who knows Dr. Cyr well will tell you that he is a man driven for quality and excellence. His high standards can be seen throughout his educational process and career.
He received top honors at Southwest Texas State University by graduating Summa Cum Laude and Valedictorian with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. In addition to rigorous academics, he was also a member of the Bobcat football team during his three years at SWTSU.
Dr. Cyr gained early acceptance into medical school and earned his MD from the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. He then began his service to the United States Air Force with a transitional internship at Wilford Hall Medical Center. He served the air force community as a flight surgeon for two years before beginning residency training in orthopaedic surgery at Wilford Hall.
Following residency, Dr. Cyr was honored to be chosen from among the country’s top residents as the only fellow for the highly competitive and prestigious spine fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. This training program has ranked number one for orthopaedic and neurosurgical training programs in America for the last 20 years. Mayo combines these two fields, giving their surgeons an understanding of nerve and spine function unparalleled in most other programs.
Upon completion of his fellowship, Dr. Cyr and his family moved back to San Antonio, where he served the military population as the Chief of Air Force Spine Surgery and Spine Surgery Consultant to the Surgeon General of the Air Force. For six years, Dr. Cyr taught future air force orthopaedic surgeons in residency at Wilford Hall and has twice served our war wounded in Iraq at the Air Force Theater Hospital in Balad.
He has brought innovative techniques to the military and was the first to perform the total disc replacement procedure as well as endoscopic spinal surgery. He specializes in complicated spine issues and has gained notoriety for successful repairs of failed surgeries on patients from numerous other states and around the world. Dr. Cyr’s expertise and skills are now available to civilian patients at the Orthopaedic and Spine Institute, where his passion for excellence and quality keep him at the leading edge of spine surgery.
Mayo Clinic Trained Spine Physician
Dr. Venkat Sethuraman M.D.
Mayo Fellowship Trained Board-Certified Spine Surgeon
Minimally Invasive Spine Specialist
Education Undergraduate: Rutgers College, New Brunswick, NJ
Medical: Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Training Orthopaedic Surgery
Residency: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA Spine
Fellowship: Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Hospital Affiliations Baylor Irving Medical Center Irving Coppell Surgical Center Irving
Offices:
Coppell :
2021 N. MacArthur Blvd 400 West IH 635 Bldg. @, Suite 115
Irving:
Plaza 1, Suite 200
Irving, TX 75061
Irving, TX 75063
Plano:
2301 Marsh Lane,
Plano, TX 75093
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Minimally Invasive, Endoscopic, Endoscopic Spine Surgery and Laser Spine Surgery
The trend in spine surgery has moved toward minimally invasive type procedures. Minimally invasive spine surgery (MIS) involves surgical treatment of the spine through small incisions with very minimal disruption of the surrounding muscle tissue.The benefits of minimally invasive spine surgery include decreased pain, shorter hospital stays, and quicker recovery. Come check out our large medical doctors and surgeons group at www.becomepainfree.com
Open Surgery and Minimally Invasive Surgery
Surgical procedures of the spine are often referred to as an “open back type” procedure or minimally invasive. An open procedure involves making a skin incision and retracting (moving aside) any tissues overlying the anatomy that is to be operated on so that the surgeon can directly view the desired anatomy. The surgeon will view the anatomy either with the naked eye, magnifying telescopic eyeglasses called loupes, or a magnifying microscope. Traditionally, open procedures have required larger incisions and more muscle tissue distraction than minimally invasive surgery.
Minimally invasive surgical techniques utilize specialized retractors which allow a surgical procedure to be done through smaller incisions with much less tissue disruption. One of these specialized retractors is called a tubular retractor, which is a series of gradually expanding tubes that gently and progressively dilate and separate muscles and soft tissues to expose the operative field. Using specialized instruments, surgery is performed through the tube.
Laser is one of many specialized tools that can be used during minimally invasive spine surgery. There is a common misconception that if a laser is used during surgery, no incisions need to be made. Unfortunately, this is not the case. A laser is like any other surgical tool. In order for it to be used, it has to be placed into the appropriate area of the body through an incision.
A second misconception is that lasers can be used to remove arthritis. Spinal arthritis is a condition in which the facet joints degenerate and become inflamed.Unfortunately, there is no cure for arthritis and it cannot be “lasered away”.
Finally, many people think that laser surgery is always better than surgery without a laser. Although the laser is helpful for certain procedures, not all spinal conditions can be safely or appropriately treated with a laser, and using a laser does not always provide advantages over other techniques.
Transforaminal Endoscopic Discectomy
This is a technique that is being performed by some of the surgeons at BecomePainFree.com to treat herniated discs in the lumbar spine. Transforaminal literally means “through the foramen”. The foramen is the “window” or “tunnel” through which the nerve exits from the spinal canal at each disc level. The foramen are located on the sides of the spinal canal, and provide a natural window through which the spinal canal can be accessed without having to remove any bone or ligament tissue.
The patient remains awake during the procedure. After a local anesthetic is administered, a small needle is inserted into the disc space. A 7mm (1/4 inch) “keyhole” skin incision is made and a tube is slipped over the needle into the abnormal disc. Muscle and tissue is dilated rater than being cut when accessing the disc and a laminotomy does not have to be performed. The endoscope is then inserted through the tube into the disc. Using x-ray guidance and endoscopic visualization, micro-instruments are used to remove the damaged disc. A laser may be used to further remove and shrink the disc (disc decompression) and to tighten the outer layers of the disc (annulus). On average, the procedure takes about 30 minutes to one hour per disc. Upon completion of the procedure, the probe is removed and a small bandage is applied over the incision.
Minimally invasive surgery is emerging as an alternative, reliable method of treatment for a variety of spinal disorders. Like “building a ship in a bottle”, there is a steep learning curve for surgeons learning to do these procedures. Although the recovery is often faster, the complication rate during surgery can be greater and the results may not be as predictable. Not every patient is a candidate for minimally invasive surgery.Each patient needs evaluation by a knowledgeable and experienced surgeon in this technique to determine their eligibility.
Our physicians specialize in numerous medical specialties, including, but not limited to: Orthopedics- spine and extremities, OB/GYN, Interventional Radiology, Oncology, Physical medicine and rehabilitation, Pain Management/Anesthesia, Surgical Anesthesia, Electro Diagnostic Testing, Autonomic Nervous System Testing, General Surgery/Bariatric Surgery, Hand/Plastic Surgery and Wound Care.
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