Treatment of Trigeminal Neuralgia Using PRF of Trigeminal Nerve Branches Followed by USG-Guided Dry Needling
Trigeminal neuralgia is a very painful condition associated with sudden severe shocks over the face and Pain. It may also be associated with inability to open the mouth during an acute attack. The attacks may be repetitive, depending on the severity and last a few seconds, but the intensity of pain is such that it […]
My Journey with Post-Cesarean Pain and Healing Through USGDN
The Unseen Struggle After a C-Section My name is Dr. Shalakha Desai, and like many new mothers, I had a C-section. As a doctor, I thought I knew what recovery would look like. But no textbook prepared me for the pain that lingered — the burning, the pulling, the tightness across the scar that made even […]
Understanding and Treating Writer’s Cramp: A Neurological Movement Disorder
What is Writer’s Cramp? Writer’s cramp affects people between the ages of 30 and 50. It is more than just hand fatigue after a long writing session, but a neurological movement disorder. It affects coordination and control of finger movements to cause painful cramps or involuntary muscle contractions in the fingers, hand, or forearm, often […]
Avascular Necrosis (AVN) of Hip
Avascular necrosis occurs most commonly at the hip and has recently been a common complication of Covid. Many young people come with debilitating hip pain BBhaskar can you enumerate the conditions commonly associated with AVN and also the exact description of AVN? At Ashirvad Institute for Pain Management and Research, we consider that any joint pathology […]
Chikungunya Pain: Understanding Causes and Effective Treatment
Chikungunya is a viral infection which is commonly associated with incapacitating, severe joint pains after the infection has subsided . At Ashirvad Institute for Pain Management and Research, we consider that these joint pains are because of enthesopathies. Enthesopathy is when shortened muscles pull on their ends in the joint capsule to produce inflammation which then […]
Muscle: Blind Spot or Philosopher’s Stone of Chronic Pain?
Muscle has been considered as an ‘also ran’ structure amongst pain generators in pain literature. So much so, David Simmons who along with Janet Travell has done seminal work on myofascial trigger points and taut bands had to lament that “Muscle is an orphan organ, and no medical specialty claims it “As a result muscle […]
