eBook: 7 Reasons to Avoid Spine Surgery

Are You in Neck Pain or Back Pain?

Surgery is not the best option! Download your free copy of Dr. Kassicieh's latest eBook today! In 7 Reasons to Avoid Spine Surgery, you'll find out:

  • Why back surgery is the most over-utilized surgery in the US today,
  • Why your MRI is lying about the cause of your spine pain
  • When you actually should have spine surgery (not very often!)

...and much, much more! You can't afford not to read this book! Download yours today!

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How I Avoided Knee Surgery

May 15, 2012

I remember it like it was yesterday. While playing racquetball in December 2011, I felt a sudden click in my right knee. I just knew that I had torn my right knee medial meniscus. The knee MRI  proved it. The pain was excruciating, and it was compounded by the thought that this happened 9 weeks [...]

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Pro Athletes Using Platelet Rich Plasma for Joint Pain and Muscle Injuries

September 6, 2011

Platelet rich plasma (PRP) has been used medically since the late 1990′s. Dentists were the first to use this natural healing mechanism to improve outcomes of dental procedures. PRP has been used since 2000 for intraoperative (in the course of surgery) therapy following orthopedic, thoracic and cardiac surgical procedures. PRP has found wide use in [...]

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Platelet Rich Plasma in Sarasota for Joint Pain & New Therapies

December 30, 2010

Patients are being treated currently at Sarasota Neurology with PRP (platelet rich plasma) for a wide variety of joint pain and other pain issues. Among the more common uses for PRP are knee pain, shoulder pain and other painful conditions such as plantar fasciitis, tennis elbow, some types of low back pain. PRP can also [...]

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JAMA Reports PRP Not Effective – A Poorly Designed Study

January 15, 2010

A recent report in the Journal of the AMA (De Vos, et al JAMA 2009) reported that platelet rich plasma therapy was no more effective for chronic Achilles tendinopathy than standard, conservative therapy. This study was inherently flawed in its design resulting in incorrect conclusions. Platelet rich plasma is the healing component of blood. It [...]

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Podcast: Platelet Rich Plasma Regenerates Injured Joints and Relieves Pain

December 21, 2009

In this episode of the Sarasota Neurology Podcast, Dr. Kassicieh discusses Platelet Rich Plasma  and Regenerative Medicine. Regenerative medicine is a new, exciting branch of medicine which deals with healing injured or damaged tissue with the body’s own natural healing mechanism. To do this, Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) is extracted from the patient’s own blood. [...]

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Regenerative Medicine – Platelet Rich Plasma Provides Joint Pain Relief

October 25, 2009

As a neurologist who sees many patients with neck, back and various joint pains, I practice an area of medicine known as neuro-orthopedics. As such, I treat patients for their pain without surgical intervention. Many patients with neck, back and joint pain (knee pain, shoulder pain, elbow pain, etc.) can be successfully treated without invasive [...]

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