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CRPS of the Foot: When Everything Else Fails, DRG Stimulation Changes Lives

CRPS of the foot is not “just chronic pain.” It is a neurological disease that requires precision treatment. For too long, patients have been cycled through therapies with low success rates and dwindling hope. DRG stimulation has changed that reality.

Apr 10th, 2026

Common Foot Problems that Can Cause or Aggravate Lower Back Pain

Chronic lower back pain may start in your feet. Flat arches, plantar fasciitis, poor footwear, and gait imbalances can strain the spine. Learn how common foot problems contribute to back pain and how addressing them can improve lasting relief.

Apr 2nd, 2026

Spinal Stenosis Complication Prevention: 5 Important Self-Care Strategies

Spinal stenosis can lead to pain, weakness, and reduced mobility if left unmanaged. Read on for five important self-care strategies to prevent complications, reduce flare-ups, and maintain strength, balance, and long-term function.

Apr 1st, 2026

All About Peripheral Nerve Stimulation: A Medicare-Approved Solution for Chronic Knee and Shoulder P

Your life doesn’t have to be controlled by chronic knee or shoulder pain. Peripheral Nerve Stimulation is a minimally invasive, Medicare-approved treatment that targets pain at the nerve. Read on to learn more about this pain-relief option.

Mar 13th, 2026

Regenerative Medicine: A Game-Changing Solution for Stiff, Achy Joints

Stiff, achy joints can limit daily life. Regenerative medicine uses your body’s own healing ability to reduce inflammation, repair tissue, and improve movement, offering a non-surgical option for lasting joint relief.

Mar 11th, 2026

Chiropractor vs. Pain Management Physician: Who Should You See for Your Back Pain?

Pain management physicians take a medical approach to diagnosing and treating back pain. Learn how this differs from chiropractic care and when a comprehensive pain evaluation may help identify the source of pain and guide effective treatment.

Feb 17th, 2026

Failed Back Surgery Syndrome: What Are Your Options?

Failed Back Surgery Syndrome refers to persistent pain after back surgery and is more common than you may realize. Read on to learn why it occurs and explore pain management options that can reduce pain and improve function.

Feb 2nd, 2026

What Causes Sciatica Pain and How Pain Management Can Help

Sciatica can cause persistent leg pain, numbness, or lower back discomfort. The good news? You don’t have to live with this ongoing pain and decreased mobility. Learn how a personalized pain management plan can help you regain your quality of life.

Jan 16th, 2026

Understanding Pudendal Neuralgia: Causes, Symptoms, and Pain Management Options

Pudendal neuralgia is a painful irritation of the pelvic nerve that can affect sitting, intimacy, and daily comfort. Discover its causes, symptoms, and treatment options, and how our pain management team can help you find relief.

Jan 1st, 2026

Medicare-Approved PNS Procedure for Chronic Joint Pain in Seniors

Medicare now covers Peripheral Nerve Stimulation (PNS) for chronic joint pain. This minimally invasive, drug-free treatment helps older adults move comfortably again with lasting relief and greater independence.

Dec 10th, 2025

When to See a Pain Specialist for Chronic Leg Pain

Persistent leg pain deserves expert attention. A pain specialist identifies the root cause and creates personalized, minimally invasive treatments to restore comfort, mobility, and quality of life. Get relief with specialized care.

Dec 8th, 2025

Chronic Low Back Pain: Causes, Treatment Options, and Long-Term Relief

Chronic low back pain affects millions and can disrupt daily life. Discover the common causes, treatment options, and strategies for achieving long-term relief.

Nov 11th, 2025

Chronic Migraine and Neck Pain Relief: Treatment Options That Work

Chronic migraines and neck pain are often closely linked. Read on to explore effective treatment options — from medications to advanced procedures — that provide real relief and improve quality of life.

Nov 6th, 2025

Managing Headaches and Migraines After a Car Accident

Headaches and migraines are common after car accidents and may signal underlying injury. Get relief and prevent complications with early evaluation and treatment. Read on to learn how to take the next step toward recovery.

Oct 9th, 2025

Blocking Chronic Nerve Pain with Electrical Signals: How It Works

Electrical therapies like spinal cord stimulation are changing chronic pain care. They target the nervous system directly, blocking pain signals at the source for lasting relief. Read on to learn more.

Oct 3rd, 2025

How Nerve Blocks Work to Relieve Sciatic Nerve Pain

Sciatica doesn’t have to define your life. Nerve blocks are one of the many tools we use to help patients get back to living with less pain and more freedom. Read on to learn more.

Sep 16th, 2025

Neuropathy: Why Customized Treatment is Important

Neuropathy symptoms vary, and so should your treatment. Learn how personalized plans should target the root cause and help you find real relief. When it comes to nerve pain, one size doesn't fit all.

Sep 12th, 2025

Pain When You Sit? It Could be Pudendal Neuralgia

Pain when you sit could be a sign of pudendal neuralgia, a condition caused by irritation of the pudendal nerve. Read on to learn about the symptoms, causes, and treatment options offered at our pain management clinic.

Aug 8th, 2025

How an Epidural Steroid Injection Can Relieve Low Back Pain

If you’re struggling with ongoing low back pain that hasn’t responded to other treatments, an epidural steroid injection may be a treatment to consider. Read on to discover how it can provide relief.

Aug 1st, 2025

What Happens During and After a Spinal Cord Stimulation Trial

A spinal cord stimulation trial gives you a chance to test this nondrug pain management treatment before you commit. Learn what happens during and after the trial so you can decide if it might benefit you.

Jul 11th, 2025

Can the Reed Procedure Eliminate My Migraines?

Chronic migraines can disrupt every part of life. The Reed Procedure®offers lasting relief by targeting the nerves responsible for migraine pain. Read on to learn how this advanced treatment could be the solution you've been waiting for.

Jul 11th, 2025

When is it Time to Consider DRG Therapy for Leg Pain?

If you’re struggling with chronic leg pain that hasn't responded to other treatments, DRG therapy could be the relief you've been looking for. Learn how this targeted, proven option can help you take your life back.

Jun 13th, 2025

5 Tips for Finding the Best Pain Clinic in Houston

Living with chronic pain can be challenging, but finding the right pain clinic can make all the difference. Here are five tips to help you settle on the right location to help you find relief so you can have a better quality of life.

May 1st, 2025

Living With Spinal Stenosis: Reducing Pain and Staying Active

If you're struggling with spinal stenosis, specific lifestyle changes and medical interventions can make a significant difference. Read on to learn more about your treatment options to experience a more active, pain-free life.

Apr 14th, 2025

Look For These 5 Things When Choosing Pain Doctors in Houston

If you’re struggling with chronic pain, the right doctor can make all the difference in your quality of life. How do you know who to trust with your care? Read on to learn five key factors to consider when choosing a pain doctor in Houston, Texas.

Mar 10th, 2025

How Peripheral Nerve Stimulation (PNS) Alleviates Knee and Shoulder Pain

Peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) directly targets the nerves responsible for pain, making it effective for many sources of pain. If chronic knee or shoulder pain has been holding you back, read on to explore if PNS is the right choice for you.

Feb 10th, 2025

How a Spinal Cord Stimulation Device Can Help with Sciatica

Don’t let sciatica pain and numbness take over your life. If physical therapy, medications, or injections haven’t worked, spinal cord stimulation may offer relief. Learn how this innovative treatment helps you manage sciatica and find comfort.

Jan 14th, 2025

Is the Migraine Procedure Right for Me?

Migraines often come with debilitating pain, sensitivity to light and sound, and nausea. If you suffer from migraines regularly, management of episodes is a top priority. Consider the Migraine Procedure as a cutting-edge treatment for migraines.

Dec 11th, 2024

What Is DRG Therapy and How Does It Work?

Chronic pain is overwhelming, affecting your quality of life. If you’ve been suffering from persistent pain that doesn’t respond to typical treatments, dorsal root ganglion (DRG) therapy may help. Here’s more about this advanced pain relief therapy.

Nov 8th, 2024

Is Arthritis Reversible?

If you have arthritis, you may wonder if you can take steps to reverse it and stop the stiffness and pain. While arthritis is not reversible, its progression can be stalled. Read on to learn how to manage arthritis and live with less pain.

Oct 21st, 2024

5 Causes of Sciatica and What You Can Do to Prevent it

If you’re familiar with the tingling, pain, and dysfunction associated with sciatica, you’ll do just about anything to prevent it from persisting or flaring up again. Read on to learn five causes of sciatica and the steps you can take to avoid it.

Sep 2nd, 2024

When Is an Epidural Injection the Best Choice for Your Neck or Back Pain?

Epidural injections can be an effective treatment for managing chronic neck and back pain, especially when conservative treatments have failed. Read on to learn more about epidural injections and whether they may be right for you.

Aug 13th, 2024

The Migraine Procedure: Drug-free Relief for That Intractable Pain

You’re tired of migraines causing you pain and interfering with your quality of life. The ground-breaking minimally invasive treatment called the Migraine Procedure can help you find relief. Read on to learn more.

Jul 26th, 2024

What Happens During a Radiofrequency Ablation Procedure?

Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is a minimally invasive procedure that disrupts nerve signals to your brain — and it could offer lasting relief from chronic pain. Learn how it works and what to expect if you’re considering the treatment.

Jun 28th, 2024

How the Novel NALU Micro-IPG PNS system redefines the Chronic Pain Treatment Paradigm

Chronic pain is pain that lasts more than a few months, and sometimes years. It can be there all the time or may come and go. This type of pain can be caused by many factors, including aging of bones and joints, injuries that have not healed properly, and

May 11th, 2024

The significance of Fellowship training and Board Certification in Pain Medicine

An ACGME accredited Fellowship training, and Board certification in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine by the ABA ( American Board of Anesthesiology) is of paramount importance and is considered the standard of care in Pain Management.

Mar 3rd, 2024

Pudendal Neuralgia

Pudendal Neuralgia. From an elusive diagnosis tο the prevailing treatment options. Patients with chronic symptoms of intractable Pudendal neuralgia often present to our practice for consultation diagnosis, and to discuss appropriate treatment options.

Feb 4th, 2024

Painful Neuropathy and clinically effective evidence supported treatments

One of the most difficult conditions to treat, the burning, agonizing neuropathy brings suffering patients to our interventional pain practice seeking help. We offer evidence based consult, and Interventional treatment options that work.

Jan 13th, 2024

Radiofrequency Ablation : A back pain treatment that works

Back pain is one of the most common reasons a patient comes to a pain management physician's clinic due to spine facet osteoarthritis. Radiofrequency ablation of the spinal facet joints represents the standard of care for long term pain relief.

Jan 3rd, 2022

An Update from the Expert Pain Team about Care During COVID

The headlines tell us that there is light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel, with vaccine distribution beginning in the next few weeks. But it will be several months before the majority of the population can be vaccinated, so it is critical that....

Mar 29th, 2021

Dr. Skaribas Partners with Abbott on the NeuroSphere™ myPath™ App

Dr. Skaribas is excited to announce that he has been selected as a Limited Market Release (LMR) site for the NeuroSphere™ myPath™ App., the latest Spinal Cord and DRG Stimulation patient-centric innovation within the Abbott NeuroSphere™ ...

Feb 10th, 2021

Conditions that Cause Leg Pain

When people experience pain in their legs, it can fall into two major categories: acute or chronic. Acute pain comes on suddenly and is often caused by injury or damage to the bones, tendons or ligaments in the legs.

Nov 11th, 2020

Spinal Cord Stimulation for Neuropathic Pain

The body’s nervous system can be thought of as a “hub and spoke” model, where the hub (the brain) serves as the central control room that sends and receives messages from the spokes, the nerves in the spinal cord, skin, muscles and other parts of the body.

Nov 4th, 2020

Interventional Treatment Options for Back Pain

The human spine consists of 24 separate vertebrae interspaced with cartilage, plus the two bones of the sacrum and coccyx. Supporting these bones are 23 discs, more than 30 muscles and tendons that provide spinal balance, stability and mobility...

Oct 28th, 2020

Oh, My Aching Feet!

Under normal circumstances, an injury such as a broken bone or sprained ankle will heal on its own with appropriate care such as casting, rest, elevation, etc. Once healed, there are generally no long-term effects. Or as some would say, ...

Oct 21st, 2020

Sacroiliitis: Pain in the You-Know-What

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us all to change the way we live and work. And for many of those working from home, the changes have been literally painful.

Oct 14th, 2020

Dr. Skaribas Featured in Pain Awareness Video Highlighting Neuromodulation

Oct 12th, 2020

All Types of Pain are Not the Same

When our bodies hurt, we don’t usually stop to think about the kind of pain we have, we just want relief. But to pain medicine specialists, accurately diagnosing the kind of pain the patient is experiencing is key to developing an effective...

Oct 7th, 2020

Shouldering the Pain: Causes and Treatments for Aching Shoulders

When people complain about shoulder pain, many assume that the rotator cuff is the source of their pain. But unless you are a major league pitcher or quarterback or have spent a career in a job that requires repeated overhead arm motions...

Sep 30th, 2020

Causes and Treatments for Degenerative Arthritis

September is Pain Awareness month in the United States and has special significance for the estimated 32.5 million adult Americans who suffer from painful osteoarthritis.[i]

Sep 25th, 2020

Exercises to Relieve Joint Pain

For patients with pain in their joints, the thought of exercise can be, well, painful. Yet exercise is critical to relieving pain. That is because exercising painful joints helps replenish necessary lubrication to joint cartilage and can reduce...

Sep 18th, 2020

LinQ™ Procedure Offers New Hope to Patients with SI Joint Pain

Although upwards of 80 percent of Americans suffer from lower back pain at some point in their lives, sometimes the pain is not coming from their spine per se. Sometimes it may come from the sacroiliac joints where the lower spine and pelvis connect.

Sep 11th, 2020

Tennis Elbow: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments

Although it is referred to as tennis elbow, this condition is not exclusive to tennis players. Lateral epicondylitis, better known as Tennis elbow, is a muscle strain injury that is typically caused from overuse.

Sep 4th, 2020

What is Diabetic Neuropathy?

Nearly half of patients who have diabetes suffer from some kind of neuropathy. Diabetic neuropathy is nerve damage caused by high glucose levels. It is common and serious for patients who have diabetes.

Aug 26th, 2020

Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction

Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction (SJD) also known as Sacroilitis, is a condition that directly affects the sacroiliac joints that reside in the lumbar region of the spine. These joints sit right where the spine and pelvis connect with several ligaments ...

Aug 18th, 2020

DRG Therapy for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

Dorsal Root Ganglion therapy, DRG for short, is a neuromodulatory therapy which treats chronic pain. Dorsal root ganglions are collections of nerve cells that reside on both sides of each vertebrae at the dorsal root of the spinal nerve.

Aug 13th, 2020

Spinal Cord Stimulation for Neuropathic Pain

Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) has been recognized as the most commonly used form of pain management treatment after nonsurgical treatments have failed for patients. This treatment has been used and studied for hundreds of years and made its debut in...

Aug 5th, 2020

What are NSAIDs and How are They Used?

Inflammation is the body’s response to injury or irritation. As a self-defense mechanism, inflammation can be key to determining what is wrong, although reducing that inflammation is crucial to managing your pain.

Jul 30th, 2020

Treating Chronic Foot Pain

Ask anyone who has ever suffered foot pain, either from something as simple as a pair of ill-fitting shoes or from a disease such as diabetes, and they will tell you that painful feet can severely impact one’s quality of life.

Jul 21st, 2020

Prevent Golfer’s Shoulder and Elbow Pain

Amid our nation’s pandemic, many recreational activities have had to be put on hold. One that has been deemed to be fairly safe, however, is golf.

Jul 15th, 2020

What Lower Back Pain Might Mean

There is a reason that upwards of 80 percent of all adults will experience lower back pain at some point in their lives.[i] Much of it has to do with the anatomy of the lower (lumbar) spine.

Jul 8th, 2020

What is a Pain Management Specialist?

In science, as more and more information about a specific topic is learned, it often leads to subspecialties. Consider the field of physics. There are astrophysicists, nuclear physicists, molecular physicists, and so on.

Jul 2nd, 2020

Successful Treatment of Charcot‐Marie‐Tooth Chronic Pain with Spinal Cord Stimulation

Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease is one of the most common hereditary neuropathies affecting one in 2500 people in the United States. CMT disease is associated with moderate to severe chronic extremity pain.

Jul 1st, 2020

How Chronic Pain Spreads

Serious sailors know that a small amount of rust on a boat can become a much bigger problem if it is not addressed quickly. The same applies to pain.

Jun 29th, 2020

When Surgery Fails to Relieve Back Pain

Patients who live with chronic back pain are often desperate for relief, and understandably so. Back pain can impact their ability to do basic daily tasks, such as working, driving and shopping.

Jun 22nd, 2020

Degenerative Arthritis

The human body, like even the most fine-tuned automobile, cannot avoid the effects of aging. Wear-and-tear causes parts to break down over time.

Jun 11th, 2020

Joint Injections for Neck Pain

Nobody likes a pain in the neck…literally. Neck pain often radiates to the head, jaw and upper extremities including the shoulders and arms. In some cases, it may simply be the result of a muscle spasm (“a crick in the neck”).

Jun 1st, 2020

Treatment Options for Lower Back Pain

When people suffer from back pain, it usually occurs in the lower back, known as the lumbar region. This area tends to bear the brunt of our daily twisting and turning, bending and lifting. It is also where the weight of the upper body comes to rest...

May 20th, 2020

Common Causes of Knee Pain

It is estimated that the average, moderately active person will walk about 110,000 miles during their lifetime.[1] That’s the equivalent of eight round-trip walks from Houston to Alaska.[2]

May 15th, 2020

Dr. Skaribas Finds Success in Telehealth Services

Dr. Skaribas has been having great success in caring for patients using our virtual Telehealth services. He is certainly making the most out of this current situation!

May 5th, 2020

Cervical Radiculopathy: Causes and Symptoms

Cervical radiculopathy occurs when nerve roots in the cervical spine (the seven vertebrae in the neck) become pinched or irritated. Some patients experience numbness, tingling or weakness; others report pain that ranges from a dull ache to a burning...

May 4th, 2020