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With a sea of varying symptoms and waves of flare-ups and remissions, chronic pain can make you feel as if you’re swimming against the current. If medications and other traditional treatments don’t help, and your doctor can’t put a name on your pain, it may be complex regional pain syndrome...

You know your body, and you can tell the difference between general aches and pains and the type that signals something else is wrong. So when your knee hurts but you can’t put your finger on the reason, it may be arthritis.  Dr. Damon Kimes and our team at Roswell...

Losing weight is a national obsession, which explains why the diet industry keeps growing every year and averages almost $73 billion annually. Unfortunately, many of the popular diets are ineffective, and some are downright dangerous.  Here at Roswell Pain and Weight Loss Specialists, we understand that simply cutting calories doesn’t...

If you suffer from arthritis, whether osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis, you probably dread the winter season and the increased pain and stiffness it brings. This year may seem particularly difficult because you’ve likely been cooped up for months leading up to winter while doing your part to stay safe during...

Your shoulder joint is actually made up of several joints. Three bones meet in the shoulder — the humerus, the scapula, and the clavicle meet in a complex mechanism held together by muscles, ligaments, cartilage, and tendons.  This intricacy makes it possible to reach things off the top shelf, lift...

If you’ve been carrying around too many pounds for too long, deciding to finally lose them is a huge step toward overall health and wellness. But it’s also a huge commitment to changing the way you think about food for the rest of your life.  If you’re like most people,...

A certain degree of arthritis is inevitable as you age, especially osteoarthritis, the kind that wears away the protective cartilage in your joints. But no matter which of the more than 100 types of arthritis you have, to some extent you can control how quickly it progresses, how much pain...

When a long day at the computer has you reaching up to rub your aching neck, or standing in line for hours for concert tickets kills your back, you can bet your posture is to blame. A strong musculoskeletal system and some conscious effort on your part to avoid slouching...

Knees are complicated joints that have to support your entire body weight while bending, lifting, squatting, and walking. They are strong and resilient, but they can only take so much abuse before they give in, and when they do, you’re sidelined for weeks or months until they heal. If you’re...

You haven’t been in an accident and you’ve sustained no injuries, yet you can’t move your shoulder to do normal, everyday things like open a cupboard or take off your shirt. You may have adhesive capsulitis, otherwise known as frozen shoulder. Most people suffer some kind of shoulder pain in...

When most people talk about arthritis, they’re referring to general pain in the joints. But they don’t realize that arthritis is merely a broad term for more than 100 unique conditions that affect your joints. Some are more common than others, with the two most prevalent being osteoarthritis and rheumatoid...

Maybe you’ve heard about all the sports stars using platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy and wondered if you might be a good candidate for it. Or maybe it’s a new term to you and you have no idea what this is.  At Roswell Pain and Weight Loss Specialists, interventional pain management...

If you have burning, tingling, numbness, and pain in your legs, back, arms, neck, or joints because of the type of work you do or a sport you play, you may have a repetitive stress injury (RSI). Unlike an acute injury that occurs as a result of a one-time accident,...

From tying your shoes to opening a jar of pickles, there are countless things you do every day that call upon your joints to get the job done. But when you have arthritis, the swelling and pain make these simple tasks nearly impossible. Dr. Damon Christian Kimes at Roswell Pain...

If you’re an athlete, chances are you rely heavily on your shoulders to perform. Whether you throw, hit, swing, lift, or press, your shoulder joints come into play. They’re the most complex joints in your body and give athletes both stability and mobility.  And that’s a hard balance to strike,...

According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, 80% of Americans will experience some type of back pain during their lives. Think about how long you’ve been living with lower back pain, and ask yourself how many times that pain has gotten in your way. Don’t you think...