Acute Injury | Chronic Injury | Tyler Texas

While exercising and engaging in athletic activities is beneficial to patients, certain patients may experience a sports injury from acute trauma or chronic overuse. Sports injuries are often caused by overuse, poor training practices, not enough training and not warming up and/or stretching before and after sports activities. Although many patients in the Tyler, Texas area experience sports injuries, some of these patients do not understand the difference of an acute injury vs. a chronic injury. The pain physicians at Pain Recovery Center of Tyler are available to diagnose and treat a variety of sports injuries so patients can return to the game. 

Acute Injury

An acute injury is classified as a sudden injury caused during a traumatic event, such as a fall while jogging or colliding with another player during football. Some of the most common acute injuries include a strained back, sprained ankle, swollen muscles, fractures and dislocations. 

Chronic Injury

A chronic injury, also known as an overuse injury, is caused by overuse and repetitive stress to the body during athletic activities. Chronic injuries occur gradually and often cause milder symptoms compared to acute injuries. Because of the mild symptoms, many patients ignore the signs of injury and continue exercising or competing. Common chronic injuries include stress fractures, tennis elbow, golfer’s elbow, rotator cuff impingement and shin splints. 

For additional resources on an acute injury vs. a chronic injury, please contact the Tyler, Texas pain physicians at Pain Recovery Center of Tyler. You can also view our entire blog article dedicated to this topic here.

Spinal Decompression | Spine Pain | Tyler Texas

Many patients with an injured spinal disc causing chronic spine pain believe back or neck surgery is the only option. It simply is not. Spinal discs have the ability to heal on their own if properly treated by a pain physician. A safe, effective and non-invasive treatment option is the DRX9000™ spinal decompression system. The DRX9000™ system achieves decompression of the injured joint space and spinal disc without painful surgery. Pain Recovery Center of Tyler, proudly serving the greater Tyler, Texas area, offers the DRX9000™ spinal decompression system designed to decompress the injured joint space and spinal disc in order to alleviate chronic back pain or neck pain.

Nonsurgical spinal decompression works by gently stretching the spine over an extended period of time, changing the forces and position of the spine. This change takes pressure off the injured spinal disc. As a result, many patients will experience alleviated spine pain associated with their injury. For example, a patient affected by a bulging or herniated disc will often experience relief from retraction of the injured disc. Spinal decompression takes pressure off the nerves and other critical structures in the spine, promoting movement of water, oxygen and nutrient-rich fluids into the injured disc in order to promote healthy healing.

For more resources on the DRX9000™ spinal decompression system, or to determine the cause of your spine pain, please contact the Tyler, Texas pain physicians at Pain Recovery Center of Tyler. You can also view our entire blog article dedicated to this topic here.