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!

Surgery

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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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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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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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Hand pain & Numb Fingers

July 23, 2008

Carpal tunnel syndrome is the most common “pinched nerve” condition that neurologists see. It is a form of compression neuropathy The typical patient comes in with complaints of hand or arm pain associated with one or more numb fingers. There is usually sparing of the little finger. This painful numbness will frequently wake affected patients [...]

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