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At Mountain View Headache and Spine Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, we provide effective treatment options to maximize our patients’ health and wellbeing. Highly respected pain specialist Dr. Ruchir Gupta has extensive experience finding the best treatments to relieve his patients’ discomfort and allow them to return to their everyday lives. He’s helped many people find relief from their chronic pain syndrome. 

What is chronic pain syndrome?

When you are injured, or something is wrong with your body, pain is a normal reaction that tells you that things are not right. Once you heal, the pain usually goes away. Chronic pain syndrome is a condition that causes lasting pain that lingers for many months or even years after its initial cause has gone away.

Chronic pain syndrome takes a toll on your physical and emotional health and is often accompanied by anxiety or depression. Effective treatments can be hard to find, but we help you get ones that work for you. We offer ketamine infusion as a treatment for chronic pain syndrome, which has helped many of our patients find relief.

Ketamine infusion for chronic pain syndrome

If you have not found relief from other treatments and your chronic pain is negatively impacting your health and wellbeing, ketamine infusion therapy might be able to help you. A powerful prescription drug often used as an anesthetic in surgeries, ketamine can relieve chronic pain in lower doses.

Ketamine blocks pain receptors in your brain to decrease the discomfort you are experiencing. It works on different receptors from those targeted by powerful drugs such as narcotics and opioids, so it does not have the addictive qualities that those medications have. 

We provide ketamine treatments using infusion therapy, which directly puts the pain-relieving medication into your bloodstream for the fastest relief. Dr. Gupta puts an intravenous (IV line) in your arm, allowing the solution to gradually enter your bloodstream, typically over an hour. Dr. Gupta develops a treatment plan for you that may recommend a series of infusions over several weeks for maximum relief.  Unlike many other ketamine clinics, Dr. Gupta uses hospital-grade monitors to continuously monitor your heart rhythm because ketamine can have an affect on your heart.  This allows maximum safety for you.

If you are experiencing chronic pain, ketamine infusion may be able to offer you the relief you seek, allowing you to return to your normal life and experience improved wellbeing. 

To learn more about ketamine infusion for chronic pain syndrome, contact our office to set up an appointment. You can also use our handy online appointment booking system to find a time and date that work best for you!

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At Mountain View Headaches & Spine Institute, Dr. Ruchir Gupta specializes in painful spine conditions and helps his patients find much-needed relief. If lumbar spinal stenosis is behind your low back pain, the good news is that there are solutions, and we explore them here.

Lumbar spinal stenosis at a glance

The word “stenosis” means narrowing, and in the case of lumbar spinal stenosis, it’s referring to the portion of your spinal cord located in your lumbar spine or lower back.

The primary driver of stenosis in your low back is osteoarthritis, which causes changes in your lumbar spine that narrow your spinal cord, placing pressure on the sensitive nerve roots in the area. Since osteoarthritis is a degenerative form of arthritis, lumbar spinal stenosis tends to develop in people over 50.

Outside of arthritis, stenosis can develop due to an injury, a tumor, or certain bone diseases.

The symptoms of lumbar spinal stenosis depend upon the degree of the nerve impingement but can include:

• Pain, especially with certain movements
• Pain that travels down one side of your buttocks and legs
• Numbness and tingling that can travel down your leg
• Weakness in your lower extremity
• Loss of bladder, bowel, or sexual function

Stenosis can cause symptoms that radiate down one of your legs because the narrowing compresses your sciatic nerve, which runs the length of each of your legs.

Treating lumbar spinal stenosis

Most cases of lumbar spinal stenosis are progressive, which means the sooner you seek our help, the better we can slow the disease and remedy your symptoms.

To relieve your pain, we may recommend one or more effective pain management practices, including:

Anti-inflammatory medications

If your pain isn’t severe, we try to start conservatively with over-the-counter pain relievers, including non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications.

Epidural steroid injections

For more moderate pain, we deliver pain-relieving medication directly into the epidural space of your spine to mute the pain signaling.

Radiofrequency ablation

This is a minimally invasive procedure in which we ablate (burn) the end of the nerve that’s responsible for sending pain signals to your brain. Radiofrequency ablation can provide you with meaningful pain relief for up to a year.

Infusion therapy

If your pain doesn’t respond to other treatments, we may recommend ketamine or lidocaine infusion therapy, which delivers powerful pain-relieving agents directly into your bloodstream.

While the above therapies are designed to help you manage lumbar spinal stenosis pain, what you do with this period of pain relief is equally as important. While you have a reprieve from your symptoms, engaging in physical therapy is one of the best ways to garner meaningful results as you’re able to beef up the support systems surrounding your lumbar spine, taking the pressure off of your nerves.

We also offer platelet-rich plasma therapy, which taps your body’s powerful regenerative resources to encourage healing and repair on a cellular level.

As you can see, if you’re struggling with lumbar spinal stenosis, we offer ample options that can help restore pain-free movement. To figure out which treatment protocol is best for you, contact our office in Phoenix, Arizona, to set up an appointment. We also offer telehealth appointments to discuss your treatment options.

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At Mountain View Headache & Spine, Dr. Ruchir Gupta and our team have dedicated ourselves to helping patients find pain management options that work with the human body rather than around it. As part of our wide range of services and products, we offer CBD oil, which checks many boxes for a more natural approach to relieving pain.

Here’s a look at how CBD oil tackles chronic pain.

Working with your body

When you have chronic pain, that pain often stems from an acute problem and then takes on a life of its own, often becoming a diagnosis in and of itself. This occurs for many reasons, including that your pain pathways remain activated and highly sensitive.

To quiet these pathways, we can turn to CBD, which is a non-psychoactive component of cannabis. CBD works so well for addressing pain because it taps into an existing system in your body called the endocannabinoid system (ECS). 

Briefly, your ECS is a vast and complex cell-signaling system inside your body that influences a wide range of areas, including your nerve signaling. The peripheral nerves in your body, as well as the center of your nervous system — your brain — feature numerous cannabinoid receptors, which can block pain signaling when they’re activated. This activation can come in many different forms, including CBD oil.

Benefits of CBD oil for chronic pain

There are numerous benefits of using CBD oil to tackle chronic pain, starting with CBD is considered quite safe. As we stated, CBD isn’t psychoactive, which means it works quietly with your ECS without altering your state of mind.

As well, CBD isn’t addictive, like some pain medications, which makes it not only a non-invasive approach to pain management but a low-risk approach, as well.

Not every CBD oil is created equal

It’s important to understand that there’s been a massive influx of CBD products that all claim to “cure” pain. We urge you to approach these products carefully because how the CBD is processed can make all the difference in combating your pain.

At our practice, we offer CBD oils that have been refined sufficiently so that your body easily absorbs the CBD. In other words, the products we offer are going to where they need to go — into your ECS.

If you’d like to see for yourself whether CBD oil can help with your chronic pain, please contact our office in Phoenix, Arizona, to set up a consultation.

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