When a patient asks,"Why does my back hurt?" the answer can take a bit of detective work.  Dr. Christopher Winfree from the Pain Center says that the exact cause is often elusive but there are six anatomical structures in the spine that are the most common sources of chronic low back pain.  He...

Imagine one day you stub your toe and the pain that would usually go away after a day or so, just keeps getting worse. Then the pain spreads to your whole foot which turns red and starts to swell. After a while your whole lower leg gets involved, you are having trouble walking and you can't...

The fourteen year old boy, we will call “Timmy”, was hit by a car while he was out riding his bicycle. He was dragged 150 feet before the car stopped. When medics found him he was conscious but beaten up pretty badly. He was taken to the hospital where he was diagnosed with a fracture on the...

A Neurosurgeon can do a lot but isn't usually the first doctor a person with foot pain sees. A visit to this kind of surgeon usually comes after rest, medication, injections, physical therapy, and possibly other types of surgery have not fixed the problem. Our own neurosurgeon Dr. Christopher Winf...

Sometimes a patient with back pain has tried everything, pain killers, physical therapy, injections, even surgery, and still has pain. This is where specialists like Dr. Christopher Winfree from our Pain Center come in.  He can surgically implant a spinal nerve root stimulator (SNRS) to block...