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Introducing Dr. Kendall Carll: Your Trusted Spine Surgeon at Pegasus Pain Institute The Pegasus Pain Institute is thrilled to announce the newest addition to our esteemed team of healthcare professionals, Dr. Kendall Carll. A board-certified and fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Carll brings a wealth of expertise in spine care to North Texas, where he is […]

So, you just got hurt during the game… Be it a twisted knee, ankle, or arm, sports injuries are very common in athletes. They can happen in any sport, at any level of competition, and to any athlete. Coaches, parents, and teammates need to be aware of the signs and symptoms of sports injuries in […]

Freeze the Pain Away Using cold – really cold – temperatures to essentially freeze the pain away is the idea behind cryotherapy.  Experts in this field believe that using localized freezing temps deaden irritated, inflamed nerves is a preferred non-invasive way to manage pain. It is known to work best when used on or around painful […]

What is Foot Pain All About? We’ve all had foot pain in our lives, some more than others. The pain is a symptom of a number of different causes from injury to disease. If the pain is mild, usually it can be remedied by some OTC pain meds and that’s that. However, if the pain […]

Natural Pain Relief Remedies to Try While COVID-19 Has You Stuck at Home We’ve compiled a list of our social media posts about amazing, all-natural, DIY, try-this-at-home pain relief treatments that have stood the test of time. While we do offer telemedicine consultations here at Pegasus Joint & Spine Institute, having some of these amazing […]

Coronavirus Has Affected Us All We’re living in unprecedented times, that much is sure. With the worldwide coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic reaching us here in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, there is certainly someone you know affected, directly or indirectly, by the outbreak. In fact, the very idea that this virus is so prevalent has made countless […]

 Frequently asked questions about non-surgical pain relief treatments for back pain and joint pain from Pegasus Spine & Joint Institute in Dallas, TX. 1. Will my procedure hurt? 2. How long is my procedure? 3. How will I benefit from my procedure? 4. Are there any restrictions after my procedure?

Why are you seeking Dallas Pain Management? That’s easy. If you’re here, you’re probably suffering with some sort of pain or nagging discomfort. Maybe it’s caused by an injury sustained on the tennis court, football field, or baseball diamond. Or maybe it wasn’t caused by anything you did at all and was the result of […]

Sports Medicine is a specific branch of medicine that deals with the prevention and treatment of sports-related injuries. It also involves the application of scientific study methods to optimize health and athletic performance. Increased participation in sporting activities by amateurs (or so-called “weekend warriors”) has resulted in the need to not only prevent and treat […]

Physicians who specialize in sports medicine have a significant amount of training in the prevention and treatment of an illness or injury regarding the musculoskeletal system. The musculoskeletal system includes joints, nerves, tendons, bones, ligaments, and muscles. These specialized physicians treat their patients to maximize function and minimize further disability and downtime from everyday activities, […]

How Do I Know if I Have it? Osteoarthritis is one of the most common conditions that affect the aging population. It is by far, the most common disease that affects the joints, causing stiffness and pain. Although it may affect the joints of the knees and the back, the wrists and the hands are […]

Osteoarthritis is considered the most common joint disorder. With age, the body experiences normal wear and tear. Osteoarthritis is normal wear and tear in the joints. With osteoarthritis, the cartilage cushioning the bones at the joints begins to break down, allowing the bones to rub together. This results in joint pain, stiffness and swelling. Bone spurs may […]

What are Muscle Spasms? Muscle Spasms are sudden, involuntary (uncontrolled) contractions of one or more muscles in the body. It may develop in the arm or hands of a carpenter or along the calf muscles of a marathon runner. Other muscle spasms may involve the muscles of the spine and the limbs, causing posture and […]

Sports aren’t without risks or injury. Whether you are playing for the national team, for your university intramurals, or just for fun, there is always a possibility of getting injured. To prevent further damage and long-term complications of any sport-related injuries, here is a list of the 7 most common sports injuries, including immediate management […]

Arthritis is normally associated with the elderly, but this joint pain and stiffness can affect people of any age. If you suffer from achy, swollen joints and find yourself less mobile or active because of it, you may have arthritis. Read this article for tips on how to live with arthritis. NOTE: If the pain […]

Do Rest; Don’t Over Rest Resting too much can cause your muscles to grow weaker. Instead, find a safe exercise plan to help strengthen your knee muscles Do Maintain a Healthy Diet; Don’t Over-look Your Weight Too much weight can cause problems on your joints. Maintaining a normal weight will help relieve the pressure on […]

What is a pain management specialist? A pain management specialist is a physician with innovative and cutting-edge knowledge and training in the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of all different types of pain. Effective pain management requires a highly multidisciplinary approach. The most common pain management specialists focus on: Anesthesiology Interventional radiology Physical medicine and rehabilitation Physical […]

Knee pain is a common symptom that is experienced by almost everybody at some point in their lives. It does not choose as it can affect the young, the old, women and men alike. There are several causes of knee pain including chronic exercises such as long-distance running, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis among many other causes. Fortunately, […]

Using Hot and Cold Therapy Knee pain can be such a nuisance. Fortunately, there are natural remedies such as hot and cold therapy that help with quick pain relief. To get the best out of it, you should rest the painful area, press a hot therapeutic gel pack to the inflamed knee for 20 minutes. […]

Almost everybody experiences knee pain at some point in time. Whether by trauma during running or even by gradual development through chronic inflammatory disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis, it is one of those things you hardly can escape. Knee pain can be a nuisance, it can limit your ability to move around. To address the […]

Back pain is one of the most common challenges among pregnant women. In fact, approximately 3 – 4 out of 5 childbearing women agonize from the terrors of back pain. Causes of Back Pains During Pregnancy Joints at the back loosen. During pregnancy, the joints at the lower back loosen, which causes movement in joints. […]

Knee Pain and Its Causes The knee is the largest joint in the body. A wide variety of inflammatory, mechanical, or traumatic injury on the knees can occur anytime at any age. Currently, the leading causes of knee injuries are ligament strains and tears. Other knee problems arise as a result of the degenerative process […]

Prolotherapy: A Regenerative Injection Therapy Prolotherapy, otherwise known as Proliferation Therapy, is a treatment procedure involving the injection of a dextrose solution and a local anesthetic. The solution is aimed to “proliferate” or “stimulate” the body to trigger cell growth and to stabilize tissue in order to strengthen weak cartilage, ligaments, tendons, and bones. The […]

Not all pain we experience is physical. There is also nociceptive pain (from tissue damage or inflammation), muscular pain, psychogenic pain (from emotional factors), and neuropathic pain (from a dysfunctional or injured nerve). Understanding neuropathic pain as a disease of the nervous system sheds on the riddle of why do we feel pain, solving the […]

 To understand what a degenerative disc means it is helpful to study how the spine works, or at least how it looks like as well as its parts. The spinal column, commonly known as spine, is made up of bones called vertebrae. Between each vertebra is a disc that looks like a gel, which serves […]

Taking Control of Your Arthritis Pain Most of us know that Arthritis literally means inflammation of the joints. Although, joint inflammation is just a sign or a symptom rather than a specific diagnosis, Arthritis is a term used by doctors to describe a group of conditions affecting the joints. The two most common types of […]

What are trigger points? Painful muscles have been associated to “trigger points”. But what is a trigger point? A trigger point is a hyperirritable area of a tissue that is tender when compressed and can cause a referred pain. It could be a myofascial trigger point if it occurs in the muscle and fascia – […]

“For this reason my loins are full of anguish; Pains have seized me like the pains of a woman in labor. I am so bewildered I cannot hear, so terrified I cannot see.” – Isaiah 21:3 Pain. Everyone experiences pain. We even have different pain classifications, characteristics, and names for pain. Although descriptions of pain […]

The vertebral column, commonly known as the spine or backbone is one of the most important parts of your body.  It provides the main support, which allows you to sit or stand upright, bend, lean forward, and twist. 33 vertebrae form the spinal column. These individual bones are stacked one on top of the other. […]

People are experiencing more and more problems with their knees than ever before.  In America, people who have been complaining pain on the knees have skyrocketed along with the number of individuals undergoing knee joint surgeries and replacements. Knee pain is uncomfortable and is debilitating. Simply put, knee pain hurts. However, pain is not just […]

The most common prescription for injuries has been given the acronym RICE. RICE meaning, R-est, I-ce, C-ompression, and E-levation. In some cases like simple strain, sprain, and other minor injuries, this regimen will do the trick. This immediate treatment, however, works best in combination with other therapies depending on the injury. REST Rest might be […]

A lot of doctors can show you a pain intensity scale, such as the numeric pain rating scale where you can identify how bad your pain is from 0 to 10, 0 being none and 10 as the highest.  Others will ask when your pain started, how your pain feels, where your pain is, or […]

 “Pain can kill”. This might be an overstatement to some but categorizing pain as a vital sign underlines the gravity of threat it poses. Far from being just an unpleasant experience that people should endure, pain can actually harm the body by unleashing a cascade of hormonal and neurochemical changes that can affect an individual […]

What is a migraine? Migraine is not just a headache, but also a complex neurological event with different kinds of symptoms. Besides an intense or throbbing headache, some common symptoms include hypersensitivity to light or sounds, nausea and vomiting, visual disturbance, fatigue, and difficulty concentrating. Others also have sensitivity to touch or smell. Some have […]

Pain is an experience one is never in doubt about having. One might ask, “Am I in love?” But never “Am I in pain?”1 Indeed, pain is inevitable to mankind. However, is pain just an idea, a sensation, emotion, or a feeling?   In 1931, nobel laureate Albert Schweizer said that “Pain is a more […]

Uncomplicated Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Back Pain. Back pain is not a joke. In fact, according to the Global Burden of Disease 2010, back pain is the leading cause of disability around the world. Being the most commonly complained health issue, it is not a surprise that people have lots of unanswered queries […]

Have you been pinched in the skin? Does it hurt? Yes, of course. Now imagine someone or something pinching your nerve, what do you think will happen? What are the Nerves? The nerves are neurons (nerve cells) bundled together. The nerve cell or neurons are the functional unit of the nervous system. It has many […]

For many years, researchers and medical professionals sought different procedures such as pain mapping to nerve blocks, and surgeries in order to relieve pain.  While these invasive procedures play an important role in alleviating pain, scientific advances have also proven that pain is a ‘bio-psycho-social-phenomenon’, in which the brain, the mind, and the body play […]

There are lots of reasons for hating to be operated on. Nobody in the world wants to be cut opened with scalpels, or surgical blades, and scissors. But sometimes, doctors choose to perform what we call “invasive procedures” to alleviate pain. Invasive Procedures for Pain Relief Invasive procedures include surgeries or major operations.  Surgical treatments […]

Practicing Yoga to Get Pain Relief Pain is frustrating and annoying. Chronic pain is frustrating and annoying for far too long a period of time and can severely affect your life, socially or economically. Up to 75 million Americans have to deal with chronic pain, which negatively affects the domestic and social lives of these individuals. […]

Foods That Reduce Inflammation and Joint Pain What we put into our bodies plays a huge role in reducing inflammation and joint pain. You can do more than just take medication to help your body. Therefore, to help you narrow down what you can eat to reduce your inflammation and joint pain here is a […]

Headaches which are also referred to as Cephalalgia,  are one of the most common complaints encountered by the primary care physician all around the world. There could many causes that lead to a headache in everyday life. Most of the time it is triggered by lifestyle factors that can be treated at home by the […]

Exercises for Lower Back Pain Lower back pain is an ailment that affects many people throughout the world. There are many different exercises that can help with lower back pain! They range depending on body type, age, and gender. Here is a list of some general exercises that can help with your back pain: Bridge […]

WHAT IS SCIATICA? Sciatica is the symptoms of leg pain that comes from problems in one’s lower back. Degenerative disc disease, spondylolisthesis, spinal stenosis, and lumbar herniated disc are all lower back problems that commonly lead to sciatica. Once problems in the lower back persist and travel down to one’s legs, the problems will then […]

The feeling of numbness or tingling in your hand or arm due to a pinched nerve located in the wrist is known as Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. There are more than 3 million cases of carpal tunnel syndrome in the US per year, so it’s very common. Carpal tunnel syndrome is especially common in women. Normally […]

Anyone can be injured from playing sports, and sports injuries can hinder a player’s ability to continue at the same athletic level; if at all. It is very important to get the proper treatment to a sports injury, otherwise your injury may very well be the last memory of your athletic career. Below are the […]