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Can an anti-inflammatory diet help with osteoarthritis and joint pain? Discover which foods to choose, what research shows and how nutrition supports joint health.
An MRI shows anatomy, not pain. How to read disc degeneration, dehydration, bulges, protrusions, herniation and nerve compression in a lumbar MRI report.
Pain, mobility and return to activity: what Centre Algos patients report after percutaneous hydrotomy, alongside the scientific context.
Percutaneous hydrotomy has been used clinically for decades, but what do the results and scientific evidence actually show? We examine pain and function, back-pain and osteoarthritis research, safety, disc rehydration, regeneration and structural imaging observations.
An abnormal MRI does not automatically mean surgery. How chronic back pain, disc herniation and sciatica can be treated without an operation.
Chronic inflammation is persistent inflammatory activity that continues beyond the body's normal short-term response. It rarely has one universal cause, and an inflammatory marker is a clue rather than a diagnosis. Here is what drives low-grade inflammation, what blood tests can and cannot show, and how we investigate persistent inflammatory activity.
A cortisone injection can make a painful tendon feel dramatically better within a short period. Randomized trials show that this early improvement can be misleading: in several common tendinopathies, recurrence is high and longer-term outcomes are worse than with rehabilitation-based approaches. Here is what the evidence shows and which alternatives support tendon recovery.
Low vitamin D is common in autoimmune disease, and vitamin D has a genuine role in immune regulation. But correcting a deficiency, preventing disease and using vitamin D therapeutically are three different clinical questions. Here is what the randomized evidence shows, how vitamin D is measured and where high-dose strategies require medical supervision.
No single food causes autoimmune disease, but nutrition, micronutrient status, digestive health and the gut microbiome all interact with immune and inflammatory processes. Here is what the evidence supports, which investigations can help, and how we assess nutrition and gut health at Centre Algos.
Not sure where to begin? These articles are a good introduction to how we approach persistent pain at Centre Algos.
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