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Chronic Pain and Mental Health: How Arizona Pain and Spine Institute Treats the Whole Patient

A landmark 2025 systematic review and meta-analysis published in JAMA Network Open — encompassing 376 studies and 347,468 individuals with chronic pain from 50 countries — found that approximately 40% of adults with chronic pain have clinically significant depression and approximately 40% have clinically significant anxiety. A separate 2024 study published in the journal PAIN […]

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Radiofrequency Ablation for Chronic Back and Neck Pain: A Complete Guide for Arizona Patients

The largest cohort study of radiofrequency ablation for chronic low back pain ever published — 1,236 procedures analyzed in Pain and Therapy (March 2025) by Abd-Elsayed et al. at the University of Wisconsin — found a 60.6% average reduction in pain scores among successfully treated patients, with 14% of patients achieving complete pain remission. For

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Stellate Ganglion Block for Long COVID: How a Nerve Block Is Helping Patients With Brain Fog, Fatigue, and Chronic Pain

An estimated 17 million U.S. adults were living with Long COVID as of March 2024, according to KFF analysis of CDC Household Pulse Survey data — and the CDC’s 2023 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System found that 6.4% of noninstitutionalized adults nationwide were experiencing Long COVID when surveyed. For many of these patients, standard treatments

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Sciatica Treatment Without Surgery: What Mesa and East Valley Patients Should Know About Interventional Options

A 2025 evidence synthesis published in PMC analyzed 72 randomized controlled trials covering 7,701 patients and concluded that epidural steroid injections significantly relieve sciatica pain and improve function, outperforming other conservative treatments. For the up to 40% of Americans who will experience sciatica during their lifetime — according to StatPearls (NIH/National Library of Medicine) —

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Stellate Ganglion Block for PTSD: How Arizona Pain and Spine Institute Is Offering New Hope for Veterans and Civilians

In the largest retrospective study of stellate ganglion block for PTSD to date — 327 patients treated between 2016 and 2020, published in the journal Pain Physician in January 2022 by Lipov et al. — over 80% of patients experienced a clinically meaningful reduction in PTSD symptoms. The average decrease in symptom scores was nearly

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Regenerative Medicine for Knee Arthritis: How Arizona Pain and Spine Institute Helps Patients Explore Alternatives to Knee Replacement

The American Joint Replacement Registry’s 2024 Annual Report — published by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons — now tracks over 4.3 million hip and knee arthroplasty procedures performed across 1,447 institutions in all 50 states. Approximately 700,000 total knee replacements are performed annually in the United States, according to the AAOS, and projections from

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Failed Back Surgery Syndrome: What to Do When Spinal Surgery Doesn’t Work — A Guide From Arizona Pain and Spine Institute

A 2025 prospective cohort study published in Heliyon followed 512 patients after posterior lumbar surgery and found that 32.5% developed failed back surgery syndrome — meaning nearly one in three patients continued to experience significant pain after the operation intended to fix it. For the approximately 500,000 Americans who undergo lumbar spine surgery each year,

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Peripheral Neuropathy Treatment Without Surgery in Mesa, AZ: How Arizona Pain and Spine Institute Is Addressing Nerve Pain at Its Source

According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), more than 20 million Americans suffer from some form of peripheral neuropathy — and that number likely undercounts the true total because many cases go undiagnosed. A 2024 cross-sectional study published in Current Medical Research and Opinion found that 82.6% of individuals with peripheral

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Exercise Recovery After PRP Therapy: Your Complete Week-by-Week Guide from Arizona’s Regenerative Medicine Experts

When patient Forrest Hammer came to Arizona Pain and Spine Institute, he struggled with basic daily activities. After receiving regenerative medicine treatment, he reported being “able to walk, able to perform tasks that I couldn’t for a long time, like daily walking, bending over, carrying groceries and enjoying a movie at the cinema.” His experience

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Why Does Your Back Pain Radiating to the Groin? Understanding the Hidden Connection

You wake up with familiar lower back pain radiating but this time something is different—a dull ache has settled into your groin, and you’re not sure why. You’re not alone. According to CDC data, 39% of American adults experienced back pain in 2019, and research published in the Burden of Musculoskeletal Diseases report reveals that

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