The process of providing medical care that alleviates or reduces pain. Mild to moderate pain can usually be treated with analgesic medications, such as aspirin. For chronic or severe pain, the doctor uses steroids or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs when the pain is related to inflammation; or with antidepressants, which can potentiate some pain medications without raising the actual dose of the drug and which affect the brain's perception of pain. Pain management procedures include: Facet Joint Injection, Knee Injections under Fluoroscopy, Epidural Steroid Injections, Acupuncture, etc.  

BOTOX is very effective in the treatment of migraine and tension headaches. Patients with chronic migraine experience headache for more than 14 days in a month, a condition that greatly affects family, work, and social life. Botox injections work by blocking certain chemical signals from nerves, mostly signals that cause muscles to contract. This results in targeted muscle paralysis, which can have therapeutic or cosmetic effects, especially where muscles are chronically tight or spastic. Dr. Zlatnik is trained to do BOTOX injections for various medical conditions like migraine headaches, hemifacial spasms, stroke.

Researchers continue to study the medical benefits of marijuana. It may be effective in treating:

• chronic pain, due to its effect on the central nervous system

• nausea

• muscle spasms, especially those associated with certain conditions, such as multiple sclerosis

• sleep issues

• arthritis 

• migraines

There are many forms of alternative medicine. They include acupuncture, chiropractic, massage, hypnosis, biofeedback, meditation, yoga, and tai-chi. Acupuncture involves stimulating certain acupoints on the body using fine needles or other methods. It is thought that acupoints lie near nerve fibers. When acupoints are stimulated, the nerve fibers signal the spinal cord and brain to release chemicals that relieve pain.

A test commonly used to evaluate the ability of electrical conduction, of the motor and sensory nerves in humans. A nerve conduction study is done to measure how well and how fast the nerves can send electrical signals and to find damage in the peripheral nervous system, which includes all the nerves that lead away from the brain and spinal cord and the smaller nerves that branch out from those nerves. This test is often used to help find nerve problems such as carpal tunnel syndrome or Guillain-Barré syndrome. Nerve conduction velocity (NCV) is a common measurement made during this test. 

A measure of brain waves. It refers to the recording of the brain's spontaneous electrical activity over a short period of time, recorded from multiple electrodes placed on the scalp. It is a readily available test that provides evidence of how the brain functions over time. The EEG is used in the evaluation of brain disorders, especially the activity in the brain during a seizure. It also is used to evaluate people who are having problems such as confusion, coma, tumors, long-term difficulties with memory, weakness in specific parts of the body which are associated with brain function.

An electromyogram (EMG) measures the electrical activity of muscles at rest and during contraction (activity). Electromyography is a technique for evaluating and recording the electrical activity produced by skeletal muscles. EMG is performed using an instrument called an electromyograph, which produces a result as an electromyogram. An EMG is done to find diseases that damage muscle tissue, nerves, or the junctions between nerve and muscle, the causes of weakness, paralysis, muscle twitching, etc.

The neurological examination tells us the location of the disease and allows us to focus our diagnostic testing on a specific area of the nervous system. Neurological examination includes physical examination and testing various functions of the nervous system. In addition to a routine physical assessment, the neurological examination should evaluate mental status, motor system, sensory perception, deep tendon reflex, cranial nerve function.