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Knee arthritis can make everyday activities painful. Just climbing stairs or simply walking across the room can be difficult. Thankfully, there’s no shortage of medications and treatments to help you manage knee arthritis.  While pain relief medications and joint injections are well-known arthritis treatments, they aren’t the only ones. Regenerative...

If you’ve been living with chronic pain that doesn’t respond to conservative treatments like medication, injections, or physical therapy and are considering a spinal cord stimulator, you may wonder why — or even if — you need a trial. Spinal cord stimulator trials are a “test drive” to make sure...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 50 million American adults experience chronic pain. Chronic pain is defined as pain that lasts longer than three months, and not surprisingly, this can sabotage your quality of life, affect your ability to work, and even contribute to depression and...

An estimated 1.5 million vertical spinal compression fractures occur each year. About 25% of women over 50 have at least one compression fracture, and as many as 50% of people over 80 have one. These stats show just how common compression fractures are, so if you have a painful spinal...

Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is changing how arthritis is treated, reducing pain and improving mobility in an innovative way. It could be the game changer you’re looking for to ease orthopedic pain caused by arthritis. At Trinity Pain Medicine Associates in Fort Worth, Texas, our team of board-certified pain management professionals...