For many people with knee injuries or arthritis, colder temperatures mean more knee pain. While there’s no solid scientific proof linking cold weather to joint troubles, plenty of people feel their knees get stiffer and achier as the weather gets colder. Everyday activities like moving around, exercising, or enjoying winter traditions become harder and less enjoyable. But what’s behind this … Read More
Can you avoid knee surgery with viscosupplementation?
No one enjoys knee pain and osteoarthritis is no exception. When your knee isn’t responding to more conservative treatments, you might think surgery is your only option. However, you might be able to avoid knee surgery with viscosupplementation. It’s always a good idea to look at alternatives to managing your osteoarthritis knee pain over surgery. Viscosupplementation not only reduces pain and … Read More
Botox for Migraine Prevention
Anyone who suffers from chronic migraines in Utah wants to do more than simply treat them—they want to prevent the migraines from reoccurring. The intense pain and related migraine symptoms can prevent you from working, doing the things you love, and even leave you bedridden more than once per week. In fact, according to the Migraine Research Foundation, more than 90% … Read More
Diabetes Joint Pain: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments to Know About
People with diabetes tend to suffer from several related disorders that can result in joint pain and dysfunction. In fact, diabetes has been associated with serious diseases such as osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and gout, among others. Needless to say, these are extremely painful conditions that can significantly lower the patient’s quality of life. Fortunately, proper diabetic care and diabetes … Read More
Understanding Chronic Pain: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment Options
Just about everyone feels pain now and then. It’s your body’s way of alerting you to a problem. When you cut your finger or pull a muscle, the pain subsides once the injury heals. However, chronic pain is different. Your body can hurt weeks, months, or even years after the injury. Doctors commonly define chronic pain as anything lasting 3-6 … Read More
Pain Management Techniques: How to Live with Chronic Pain
Living with chronic pain is a daily struggle. It not only impacts every aspect of your life, but also drains you physically, mentally, and emotionally. In fact, adults with chronic pain are more susceptible to mental health disorders like depression and anxiety. You might think living well with chronic pain is impossible. After all, you never know how you’ll feel … Read More
How a Utah Pain Management Specialist Can Help You Live Better
As the nomenclature suggests, a pain management specialist is a medical professional who examines pain, determines its cause, and then treats it in the most effective way possible. They treat a variety of pains – from sudden headaches to lasting and chronic knee pains. More often than not, patients seeking their assistance can go home the same day of the … Read More
Benefits of Suboxone Over Methadone
Every year in Utah and nationwide, opioid abuse still leads to a disturbing number of fatal overdoses. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) indicates that 70,630 drug overdose deaths happened in the U.S. in 2019 alone. The figures are even more unsettling if you look at them over the long term. According to the CDC, almost 500,000 people died from opioid overdoses from 1999-2019. … Read More
CRPS Finally Getting Attention
If you’re a Utahn with CRPS, also known as complex regional pain syndrome, there’s a good chance you’d never even heard about it before you were diagnosed (or began your own online sleuthing to figure out why you were in so much pain). It’s an elusive disorder that is often misdiagnosed, but the pain is treatable at Peak Health and … Read More
Sports injuries on the rise: treatment plans for you and your kids
It’s bad enough when you suffer an injury like a rolled ankle when stumbling off a sidewalk, but a sports injury can bench an athlete and even ruin their career. Peak Health and Wellness regularly works with sports injury patients of all ages and abilities from professional athletes to little league stars. Spring has arrived, and with the season comes tennis injuries, baseball and … Read More