Patient Care At Nebraska Spine Hospital
Here at Nebraska Spine Hospital, we pride ourselves on providing our patients with the best care possible. By focusing on the individual, not the condition, we strive to meet the needs of every patient. We want to make sure you feel heard by every staff member, from doctors and nurses to support staff.[bctt tweet=”By focusing […]
Back Pain: A Health Concern For Nurses
If you had to guess, which profession would you say suffers more back injuries, nursing or construction? If you guessed nursing, you’re correct. Nurses with back pain are an all too common occurrence. Did you know that nurses are three times more likely to suffer a back injury than a construction worker? In fact, nurses […]
Depression and Chronic Back Pain
April 8th is World Health Day and this year’s focus is depression. Depression affects a great deal of the patients we see so we wanted to take the time to talk about depression and chronic back pain. What is depression? Depression is a common, serious medical illness. In 2015, 16.1 million US adults experienced at […]
Narcotic Pain Medications and Chronic Pain
What if we were to tell you that narcotic pain medications like oxycodone, hydrocodone, and morphine can actually worsen your chronic pain? Not that great of news, huh? Studies have found that to be the case. “A brief treatment with a pain killer, like morphine, doubled the duration of chronic pain.” Let’s talk about the […]
Lower Back Pain
Lower Back Pain Back pain, it’s our specialty here at Nebraska Spine Hospital. Recently we’ve talked about the not-so-common causes of upper back pain so today let’s talk a little bit about something most of you have probably experienced, lower back pain. Research suggests that over 80% of adults will experience one or more episode […]
The Risk of Scoliosis Doesn’t Go Away
We’ve all heard of scoliosis, and we generally associate this risk with the young. However, there is serious risk of degenerative, or adult-onset scoliosis for adults. This degeneration can start as young as 40, but is more prevalent among those 65 and older. As we age, if there is significant degeneration of the facet joints, […]
Degenerative Disc Disease
One of the most common, and most misunderstood diseases of the neck and back would be degenerative disc disease. To explain it simply, degenerative disc disease is when pain and sometimes numbness or weakness stems from a degenerated disc of the spine. A degenerated disc is a disc in your back that basically has […]
What is the difference between a herniated disc and a bulging disc?
The terms ‘herniated disc’ and ‘bulging disc’ are sometimes used interchangeably, but they are actually two different conditions. A herniated disc happens when there is a crack on the outer layer of the disc. A bulging disc occurs when the nucleus or center of the disc squeezes into the cracks of the discs outer covering. […]
How do you determine a healthy weight?
There are countless fitness magazines, blogs, articles, and websites that talk about healthy weight and what’s acceptable and what’s not. We are inundated with information obsessing over the human body and what looks good. This blog is not another one of those articles. We are not concerned about your body weight in terms of how […]
Causes of Leg Numbness
In the following video Dr. Gill discusses some possible causes of leg numbness, including spondylosis and spondylothesis.
