CJ Arlotta

Treatment options should focus on slowing progression, relieving pain, and restoring function.

Improving diagnostic skills can assist clinicians in formulating a differential diagnosis for back and neck pain.

Ultrasound is a valuable tool for imaging soft-tissue structures and bony surfaces, but can provide pain relief as well.

Use both nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic therapies to address increased distress, decreased activity, isolation, poor sleep, and maladaptive illness behaviors.

The reliability or the clinical relevance of any diagnostic procedure is never 100%.

One common misconception about back pain is that acute back pain will turn into chronic back pain.

Treating painful conditions typically requires an approach that uses a variety of methods.

The FDA approval process requires 3 elements: efficacy, safety, and ability to manufacture quality product reproducibly.

Moving from a ‘taking the car to a mechanic’ paradigm to a biopsychosocial paradigm of the actively engaged patient.