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Advanced Spine and Joint Care that Lets You Live and Play without Limits
9301 N Central EXPY STE 115 Dallas TX 75231
1400 Preston Road STE 120, Plano TX 75093
Phone 214 750-6200
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Orthobiologic Myth #5: “My Pain Is Coming from One Problem”
By Deborah Westergaard, MD | Pain Experts | Dallas–Plano It’s human nature to look for one culprit. “One bad disc.” “One torn tendon.” “One joint gone wrong.” But the body doesn’t work that way—because it’s not a collection of parts. It’s a living, moving system. The One-Problem Illusion “My Pain Is Coming from One Problem” We grow up believing that pain must have a single cause. After all, we live in a medical world built on specialists, each one focused on one part of the b
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The World is Changing Faster Than Ever: Preserve the Joints You Want to Keep
By Deborah Westergaard, MD | Pain Experts | Dallas–Plano Every so often, life offers a moment of stillness. Mine arrived over dinner with a friend of nearly three decades, a reminder of how quickly time escapes us. One moment we are building our careers, certain of our future paths; the next, we look up and wonder how 25 years passed in a blink. The truth is undeniable:The world we are living in now is not the world we lived in even six years ago.Not medically. Not economical
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Orthobiologic myth number 11 “PRP Doesn’t Work” A Misinterpretation of Technique, Not Science
By Deborah Westergaard, MD | Pain Experts | Dallas–Plano Recently, a patient shared that during his MRI, a radiology technologist told him, “PRP really doesn’t work for most people.” The statement wasn’t malicious but it was incomplete. And for patients trying to make informed decisions, incomplete information is often the most damaging kind. “PRP Doesn’t Work” A Misinterpretation of Technique, Not Science When you hear that PRP is unreliable, the issue is almost never the
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NSAIDs, Steroid Injections, and Turmeric: What Really Protects Your Joints?
NSAIDs, Steroid Injections, and Turmeric are Often Options Joint pain flares push many people toward two common options: Oral NSAIDs Intra-articular corticosteroid injections Both have been widely used for decades. Both temporarily reduce pain. And both have well-documented downsides for cartilage biology. Oral NSAIDs inhibit COX-1 and COX-2 and can impair: Cartilage cell metabolism Proteoglycan synthesis Collagen turnover Long-term cartilage recovery Repeated intra-articular
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