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Patient education

Understand your pain, your options, and your medications.

Reading on how pain works, how we approach medication, what the research says, and how the practice runs. Useful whether or not you have a procedure scheduled. Each piece can be read here or downloaded to share with family.

Understanding pain · Article + PDF · 9 min readNew

Understanding nociplastic pain

Why pain can persist after tissue has healed, how the nervous system amplifies pain signals, and what treatment looks like when the pain is widespread rather than coming from a single joint or nerve.

Understanding pain · Article + PDF · 6 min readNew

The three types of pain

Nociceptive, neuropathic, and nociplastic pain: how they differ, how each one feels, and why the distinction decides which treatment can work.

Medications · Article + PDF · 7 min readNew

Opioid medications and chronic pain

How opioids work, what repeated daily use does to the nervous system, what the research shows, the known risks by body system, and what to discuss with us if you take them now.

Medications · Article + PDF · 6 min readNew

Peptides: what you should know

BPC-157, TB-500, growth-hormone and anti-aging peptides: what they are, what the human evidence actually shows, what is in the vial, where the law stands, and what we can offer that is proven.

Scheduled for a procedure?

Your procedure guide and discharge instructions are on their own page.

Pick your procedure from the list and we bring up the right handout: how to prepare, what to expect, and what is normal afterward.

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