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How to Avoid Surgery: The Advantage of Experience Amplified by New Technology
Deborah Westergaard, MD | Pain Experts | Dallas–Plano The Problem: Why Many Patients Struggle to Avoid Surgery As a specialist, I routinely evaluate patients who have already consulted highly skilled and respected surgeons. These physicians do extraordinary work, and I continue to refer to them when surgery is appropriate. However, many patients seeking to avoid surgery arrive after consultations constrained by time which is an unavoidable reality of insurance-driven medicine
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Regenerative Medicine Dallas: Why Insurance Coverage Is Not a Measure of Medical Legitimacy
By Dr. Deborah Westergaard | Pain Experts When “Not Covered by Insurance” Is Confused With “Not Legitimate” A question I am frequently asked—often by intelligent, highly analytical professionals—is whether regenerative medicine is covered by insurance or experimental . What is usually being asked, implicitly, is this: If insurance does not cover it, is it legitimate medicine? That assumption is understandable, but it is incorrect. Insurance coverage has never been a reliable
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Avoid Shoulder Surgery with Precision PRP Treatment
Deborah Westergaard, MD | Pain Experts | Dallas–Plano How Some Patients May Avoid Shoulder Surgery with Regenerative Care Shoulder pain can gradually limit sleep, exercise, work performance, and everyday movement. Many people are told that surgery is the next step, but in certain cases, there may be non-surgical options designed to support the body’s own repair processes. Recently, one of my patients came to me with significant shoulder pain that was interfering with daily ac
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Avoid Back Surgery Dallas: Why Orthobiologics Are Different When They Are the Focus—Not an Add-On
Deborah Westergaard, MD | Pain Experts | Dallas–Plano Pain Relief Is Not the Same as Avoiding Back Surgery in Dallas For many patients in Dallas, the path toward back surgery begins quietly. It often starts with procedures that calm pain signals—nerve blocks, ablations, injections that temporarily reduce symptoms. And for a long time, that approach represented the best medicine available. I trained in that era. I practiced in that era. And those treatments helped many people
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