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Advanced Spine and Joint Care that Lets You Live and Play without Limits
4228 N Central EXPY STE 101 Dallas TX 75206
1400 Preston Road STE 120, Plano TX 75093
Phone 214 750-6200
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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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Nov 27, 20253 min read
Orthobiologic Myth #2: “PRP Works Instantly." It’s Biology, not Botox.
By Deborah Westergaard, MD | Pain Experts | Dallas–Plano “PRP Works Instantly " Is Expecting Instant Gratification From Biology In a...
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Oct 10, 20253 min read
Elevate Your Recovery Experience — Two Locations, One Mission: Your Peak Performance
Elevate Your Recovery Experience — Two Locations, One Mission: Your Peak Performance When joint pain threatens your momentum, accessing...
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Apr 25, 20251 min read
Is It Really Trochanteric Bursitis? Or Are We Just Missing the Bigger Picture?
The Problem: Outdated Approaches and Persistent Hip Pain In many communities—including ours—the default approach to lateral hip pain is a...
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Apr 2, 20252 min read
Breaking Free from the “Hammer and Nail” Model in Pain Management
By Deborah Westergaard, M.D. Pain Experts Traditional Care’s Limitations In today’s healthcare environment, insurance often dictates...
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Oct 27, 20243 min read
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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