Dr. Michael Mountain

Back Surgery

According to MayoClinic.com:
“Back pain is extremely common, and surgery
often fails to relieve it.”
Back surgery is usually reserved for times when your nerve is pinched, your spinal cord is compressed or there’s too much movement between your spinal bones.
Your doctor may recommend back surgery if you have neck or back pain accompanied by symptoms of nerve damage. Keep reading [...]

Sacroiliac Pain

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Sacroiliac joint dysfunction, also called sacroiliac pain, is similar to the symptoms of Sciatica. You’ll often feel radiating pain or weakness in your legs and buttocks, as well as general lower back pain.
San Diego Sacroiliac Pain Treatment at Southern California Spine Center
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Treatments for Sacroiliac Pain

Chiropractic
Physical Therapy
Pain management drugs
DRX 9000 Spinal Decompression

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Oxygen Deprivation: Fibromyalgia

Oxygen Deprivation: Fibromyalgia

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Fibromyalgia is often considered a medical mystery… but it doesn’t have to be! While most physicians are uneasy and/or confused when confronted with patients that have Fibromyalgia, there are a few who take on the challenge and commit to helping their patients. Sometimes doctors say Fibromyalgia cannot be treated, and nothing could be farther from the [...]

Pinched Nerve, Nerves San Diego

Pinched Nerve, Nerves San Diego

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A Pinched Nerve is what doctors call a nerve that’s experiencing pressure which causes pain or impaired function somewhere in your body. It commonly happens to nerves that control muscle movements and/or send painful or numbing sensations to your brain.
Symptoms of a pinched nerve may be tingling, numbness, a burning sensation or shooting pains down your buttocks and legs, or in [...]

Cure for Back Pain

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My Back Pain CAN Be CURED?!
Also referred to as: Backache, Lumbago
Just like you, thousands of people around San Diego suffer from back pain every day, ranging from the type of pain that’s only minimally annoying to pain that’s excruciating and prevents life from being lived. Many people choose to live with the pain - obviously not because [...]

to learn more about a gentle, non-surgical procedure.

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