By Deborah Westergaard, MD | Pain Experts | Dallas–Plano Why Your Back Pain That Won’t Go Away—Even with Rest and Stretching You’ve tried being patient. You’ve cut back on your workouts, canceled tennis, skipped golf, doubled down on yoga, or spent hours foam-rolling. But the truth is, back pain that won’t go away with rest or stretching isn’t just tight muscles or a temporary flare-up. It’s often a sign that something deeper is going on: Instability in the spine Micro-injuri

The Problem: Outdated Approaches and Persistent Hip Pain In many communities—including ours—the default approach to lateral hip pain is a blind injection over the greater trochanter after confirming tenderness on palpation. A quick landmark-based shot of steroid and local anesthetic into the presumed bursa is offered with the hope of relief. And occasionally, that might help—briefly. Especially if a small amount of local anesthetic with corticosteroid is carefully injected in