Back Pain and Neck Pain: Talk by Dr Prem Pillay,Director of Spine and Pain Services, Neuro Spine and Pain Center Singapore

November 28, 2011 (PRLEAP.COM) Business News
Back Pain and Neck Pain are increasing worldwide to epidemic levels because of our 21st Century lifestyle according to Dr Prem Pillay, a Neurosurgeon and Director of Spine and Pain Services at the Neuro Spine and Pain Center Singapore. He is speaking in several Asian cities on this topic in order to educate the public and medical doctors. He recently spoke in Singapore at a seminar sponsored by Channel News Asia on the latest diagnostic modalities and treatments to solve Back Pain and Neck Pain and return patients to an active lifestyle. He will next speak in Sri Lanka on November 28th on this topic.

Dr Prem Pillay promotes a healthy lifestyle for the back. He has proposed several simple back care tips including limiting sitting at office and taking microbreaks every 30 minutes of sitting. He also has a holistic approach to spine problems and integrates medications with physiotherapy. For more severe back problems refractory to these measures he provides spine injection treatments including Discoplasty, Nucleoplasty, vertebroplasty, kyphoplasty, facet blocks, nerve blocks and lumbar epidural treatments. He is a proponenet of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (MISS) and Non-Fusion Spine microsurgery using Artificial Disc replacmemnt and or Spine Disc preservation technollgies using Dynamic Implants. Furthur information is available at www.singaporespine.org and www.spine-neuro.org