Aug 1, 2022 | Educational Articles, Piriformis Syndrome
Transcript: I just want to document this really interesting anatomy here. You can see down here, this is piriformis muscle here, it’s just the nerve anatomy is very unusual. So there’s two main piriformis muscles with the lateral division transiting...
Aug 1, 2022 | Educational Articles, Piriformis Syndrome
Transcript: One of the big parts of this operation is just getting down to the piriformis muscle, because it’s basically right in the center of the pelvis, this structure. The size of the patient can really make this an easy or a harder endeavor. And what I use...
Aug 1, 2022 | Educational Articles, Piriformis Syndrome, Success Stories
Transcript: Hi, my name is Judy and I live in Virginia. I’ve been suffering from piriformis syndrome for the last 16 years. My problem is I can’t stand long and I can’t walk far without irritating the sciatic nerve. The only way I can get rid of my...
Jul 29, 2022 | Nerve Pain, Piriformis Syndrome, Success Stories, Videos
Sarah was a young athlete in her prime, enjoying high school and excelling in many sports. A nerve injury sidelined her. She languished for months in search of a diagnosis. None of the surgeons she saw understood her pain problem. After months of suffering and...
Jun 1, 2022 | Piriformis Syndrome, Sciatica Pain / Piriformis Syndrome
This particular patient has had a total hip arthroplasty and the pathology in piriformis syndrome is primarily compression of the sciatic nerve by the piriformis muscle. When you have a hip replacement, they will often disconnect the piriformis muscle, and...
Apr 13, 2022 | Chronic Joint Pain, Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), Educational Articles
What is it? And how do you manage the unpredictable CRPS pain? Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) is a rare, debilitating disorder that usually follows an injury.1 After a physical injury, stroke, heart attack, or surgery, the nerve to the respective area works...
Apr 12, 2022 | Anterior Cutaneous Nerve Entrapment Syndrome
Sara-Maria was a young woman in her thirties confined to bed because of debilitating abdominal pain. As a professor, she knew how to research online and sought help. After seeing 32 doctors and enduring unnecessary, ineffective surgeries and procedures, she had...
Apr 4, 2022 | Abdominal Wall Pain, Educational Articles, Pelvic Pain, Sciatica Pain / Piriformis Syndrome
Is your sciatica acting up, or do you have piriformis syndrome? You may be surprised at just how much these conditions get confused with one another. If you have chronic pain that radiates through your buttocks and lower back, it could mean that you’re living...
Jan 28, 2022 | Peripheral Neuropathy, Success Stories, Videos
Dr. Tim Tollestrup has changed the lives of hundreds of patients from all over the world suffering from chronic pain conditions previously considered untreatable. In this video, he explains how gratifying this is as a surgeon through the lens of his patient Shelby who...
Dec 21, 2021 | Educational Articles, Peripheral Neuropathy
Work Comp is a very, very frustrating system to try and deal with. I don’t participate in their panel anymore for exactly that reason. I had patients where the diagnosis was clear the first time they came and saw me, and yet it would take one or two years of...
