Chronic back pain can make even the simplest of tasks incredibly difficult and get in your way of resting comfortably at night. The good news is that there are ways of addressing back pain that do not involve needles or surgery. At Northeast Spine and Sports Medicine of New Jersey, we successfully use spinal decompression […]

The National Institutes of Health reports that 1 our of every 4 Americans will suffer from pain that lasts for longer than 24 hours at some point in their lives, and if you’re one of the more than 75 million people faced with chronic pain, you know how the discomfort can interfere with your daily […]

Shoulder Pain (Part II) Have you heard of impingement? Think of the word, sounds like pinching, right? Imagine the arm bone doesn’t have enough room to raise, and bumps up against the front part of shoulder blade bone. If this keeps happening, it can lead to rotator cuff tears.

In a previous post, I discussed Jumper’s Knee.  In this short video, I will show you first a normal patellar tendon and its appearance on ultrasound.  And then I will show you a person with patellar tendinosis.