As we get older, we all experience the occasional ache or pain. Sometimes it happens after an intense workout session. Other times, we wake up in the morning and have achy knees for no discernable reason. These pains, usually referred to as acute pains, are common and often dissipate.
Chronic pain, on the other hand, is a very different beast. It's experienced by nearly 1/3 of Americans at some point in their lives and can be transmitted to the brain even after an injury is healed. Suffering from chronic back, knee, spine, neck, foot, and other types of pain doesn't just hurt - it can be debilitating and life-changing.
Yes, chronic pain is a physical sense that can result in pounding headaches, burning neck pain, and searing joint pain. But chronic pain is more than physical - it's also stressful, bothersome, and all-encompassing. It causes normal men and women to become reclusive, depressed, and unable to enjoy life's pleasures. If you're suffering from the fallout of chronic pain, you might feel like all hope is lost. But the doctors and specialists at Texas Nerve and Spine are here to tell you that living with chronic pain isn't inevitable.
In fact, chronic pain relief in Sienna, TX, is more achievable than you might think, and it doesn't have to involve harmful surgeries or addictive pain medications.
At our nerve and spine clinic in Texas, we have a simple philosophy: Treat every patient the same way that you would treat your parent, spouse, or child if they were patients at Texas Nerve and Spine. As a family-owned and operated institution, that's just the way we do business. While some spine and nerve pain clinics focus solely on monetary transactions and ROI, we prefer to put our patients' needs first before anything else. And that, in a nutshell, is what sets Texas Nerve and Spine apart from all the others.
We supplement our patient-first philosophy with innovative chronic pain and nerve disease treatments. Our therapies restore our patients' health while correcting the underlying causes of their spine and nerve issues without relying on damaging pharmaceutical drugs or expensive, invasive surgeries.
It all starts with our unique Brain to Body system - a cutting-edge approach developed specifically for people with chronic pain and nerve diseases. This system helps treat patients suffering from a wide range of conditions, including:
If you're in search of an expert panel of nerve and pain doctors who provide lasting relief and world-class therapies for nerve diseases and chronic pain, our team is here to serve you.
To reverse chronic pain and/or nerve disease, areas of the body that have become weak due to disease or injury must be strengthened. This includes your brain, nerves, muscles, blood vessels, and cells. Our experts here at Texas Nerve and Spine developed the most advanced pain and nerve therapy system to do all of this and more, and we call it the Brain to Body System.
From fibromyalgia and disc herniations to diabetic neuropathy and sciatica, our Brain to Body System helps restore your health and corrects the causes of your problems. Unlike treatments from other nerve and spine clinics, our system provides long-term relief without relying on invasive surgeries or dangerously addictive pharmaceutical medications.
To understand how our Brain to Body System solves chronic pain and similar conditions like nerve disease, you need a basic knowledge of the conditions themselves. That way, you can understand why so many who suffer from them rarely improve.
This is a type of pain that does not get better on its own or that doesn't alleviate after traditional medical treatments or prescription pain meds.
This is a type of pain that does not get better on its own or that doesn't alleviate after traditional medical treatments or prescription pain meds.
Chronic pain from nerve diseases and serious injuries causes a domino effect within your body. It starts with inflammation, which leads to decreased blood supply. This reduced blood supply results in a lack of oxygen. When your body doesn't get enough oxygen, it loses crucial nutrients that your body needs. This progressive effect often leads to long-term problems such as:
But with Texas Nerve and Spine's Brain to Body system, patients suffering from chronic pain and nerve disease build strength through rehabilitation. This advanced system helps:
Our Brain to Body System is central to our approach to chronic musculoskeletal pain relief and chronic nerve pain relief in Sienna, TX. By following the Brain to Body system, we can provide several services to patients suffering from chronic pain and nerve damage.
Here's a fact you might not know: Breathing in higher levels of oxygen than you normally take in actually helps improve your health. Also called EWOT, exercising with oxygen is a technique that increases oxygen circulation at a much more rapid pace than oxygen therapy alone. Create New Blood Cells
At Texas Nerve and Spine, our doctors use the NuStep Recumbent Cross Trainer to help achieve the aforementioned benefits. This specialized machine trains your muscles, brain, and nerves to work together, which supports your body's healing processes. While using the NuStep Recumbent Cross Trainer, patients are hooked up to an oxygen generator to enjoy the benefits of EWOT and reach their chronic pain relief goals.
When you oxygenate your blood with EWOT, it can have amazing benefits that can:
Many patients who visit Texas Nerve and Spine are suffering from an injury or disease of the vertebral discs of their spine. It requires the right kind of care from highly specialized doctors. If you're in search of a safe, gentle, controlled treatment for back and spinal pain, Flexion Distraction therapy may be for you.
Finding relief for this type of condition and pain is often easier said than done. Fortunately, relief is right around the corner at Texas Nerve and Spine. Our Flexion/Distraction Table stretches the spine safely and gently, allowing injured tissue and damaged discs the chance to heal and become hydrated, which lets the affected area recover more effectively and efficiently.
Patients looking for chronic back and neck pain relief in Sienna, TX choose Flexion/Distraction therapy because it:
With more than 50 million adults in America suffering from chronic pain, it makes sense that most of them want a solution that doesn't require pain medication or harmful surgery. That's where laser therapy from Texas Nerve and Spine comes into play. Laser therapy has been used for therapeutic purposes in medical environments for years. In fact, it is FDA-approved and backed by more than 2,500 research studies, which have demonstrated its efficacy in chronic musculoskeletal pain relief in Sienna, TX.
Though laser therapy is a common treatment option, not all lasers are the same. Our Class IV laser therapy, used in all applicable programs, is the most efficacious and powerful laser available for tissue healing and regeneration and healing. Class IV lasers use photobiomodulation, which provides excellent results for Musculoskeletal disorders. This process has also been proven to help with other various conditions that cause chronic pain, such as sciatica, carpal tunnel syndrome, low back pain, shoulder pain, and much more.
Our chronic pain patients choose laser therapy from Texas Nerve and Spine because it:
When your motor functions are limited or non-existent due to a serious injury or surgery, it can ruin your life. You lose the ability to be independent - one of the hallmarks of being human. Fortunately, with motor function re-training at Texas Nerve and Spine, patients suffering from motor function issues have a light at the end of the tunnel. This type of specialized physical therapy helps people recover from injuries or surgeries that leave their motor functions lacking. The goal of motor function re-training is to regain coordination and strength in the areas affecting the patient.
Motor function re-training therapy is a crucial part of the motor function rehabilitation process because it helps patients regain the independence they lost. Perhaps equally important, it also helps them return to their original level of motor function or better.
Based on our Brain to Body system, our specialists design custom exercise programs based on our patient's motor function needs. Depending on the type of injury and lack of motor skills associated with it, we may also use electrical stimulation and other modalities for more effective treatment and recovery.
Motor function re-training provides many benefits for affected patients, including:
Myofascial Release therapy gives patients chronic pain relief in Sienna, TX, and boosts joint mobility by loosening up restricted, tight muscles. Though there are similarities to traditional massages, myofascial release therapy focuses on soft tissues and the muscular system in your body to relieve tension and stress on muscles.
Restricted muscles have reduced blood flow and less oxygen. When this happens, it leads to limited movement and pain that is often intense. Our program uses state-of-the-art technology to apply acute, high-velocity vibration directly to the affected tissue to provide the patient with the environment necessary to increase mobility which, over time, can exponentially reduce pain
Benefits of this type of treatment include:
As is the case with any spinal cord injury, the nerves around the spine get weak. When this happens, pain develops, and recovery is halted. Suppose you're searching for a safe, effective way to deal with a painful spine issue like sciatica or a herniated disc. In that case, neuro impulse therapy is a great chronic nerve pain treatment in Sienna, TX. Unlike common chiropractic treatments, this advanced therapy does not involve any "cracking" or significant adjustments.
Any type of injury can cause dysfunction and weakness in your brain. To improve cognition and the neurological connection between the brain, the muscles, and the nerves, some injured patients choose to undergo interactive neurocognitive therapy using our neuro activation wall. Our neuro activation wall retains, strengthens, and restores proper function to the brain and nervous system without relying on medications or outlandish therapies.
Texas Nerve and Spine patients choose neuro activation wall therapy because it:
As is the case with any spinal cord injury, the nerves around the spine get weak. When this happens, pain develops, and recovery is halted. Suppose you're searching for a safe, effective way to deal with a painful spine issue like sciatica or a herniated disc. In that case, neuro impulse therapy is a great chronic nerve pain treatment in Sienna, TX. Unlike common chiropractic treatments, this advanced therapy does not involve any "cracking" or significant adjustments.
Neuro Impulse Therapy works by using very specific impulses directed at the area causing pain. These targeted impulses send a signal to your body so that it can begin healing and repairing your body naturally. Benefits of this therapy include:
Peripheral neuropathy occurs when there is a lack of blood flow to the nerves in areas like your feet and hands. When these nerves are devoid of blood, they begin to decay and degenerate because they don't have enough oxygen or nutrients. Eventually, the nerves in your body shrivel up, causing pain, numbness, balance problems, and other painful symptoms.
Our Brain to Body program works wonders for neuropathy issues like these by using state-of-the-art technology like laser therapy and personalized, strategic plans of action created around our patient's needs. If you're looking for both short and long-term pain relief from peripheral neuropathy, this could be the solution you need.
Spinal conditions range in severity from barely noticeable to absolutely crippling. To get to the bottom of your spine conditions, our team uses X-Rays to pinpoint the location of your spine's disease. From there, we craft a custom rehabilitation program that addresses the underlying causes of your spine pain. Often, part of that therapy includes spinal decompression.
Spinal decompression works by gently stretching the spine. When the spine is stretched, it changes its position. This change relieves pressure off the discs in your spine, which act as cushions in your back. By creating negative pressure, herniated and bulging discs retract, giving the nerves and structures in your back relief. This relief sends nutrient-rich fluids and oxygen to the discs in your back so they can heal properly.
Chronic pain can be debilitating. But it doesn't have to be permanent. Your journey to a pain-free life starts with a simple four-step process at Texas Nerve and Spine:
At Texas Nerve and Spine, our doctors understand that true back and chronic nerve pain relief in Sienna, TX won't happen until we can uncover the underlying causes of your pain. To do so, our specialists will perform detailed exams and review your medical history to understand the full scope of your needs. That way, we can craft a personalized treatment plan to provide long-term relief for your chronic pain.
Once we have discovered the underlying reasons for your painful condition, it's time to get to begin healing. Our team will work together to create a customized therapy program designed exclusively for you and your body.
Once our team develops your own custom plan for healing, we'll use our experience and resources to provide you with your plan of care. This plan will be based on your needs and our Brain to Body system, giving you the relief you deserve in a natural manner.
Chronic pain relief cannot be accomplished without a tested pain relief system and a purpose-driven team that supports your recovery. That's why our expert staff will assess your journey to recovery and be there for support every step of the way. Because when you treat chronic pain at Texas Nerve and Spine, you're never alone.
Contact our office today to get started on your journey to a pain-free life.
In May, Rancho Sienna MUD residents will become Leander water customers.As discussed during the March 5 Leander City Council meeting, the switch will roughly double water rates for Rancho Sienna residents. City council approved a $388,830 additional services agreement at the meeting, which extends water into the Rancho Sienna MUD and allows for water service beginning in late May.Georgetown charges $1.75 per one 1,000 gallons of water in out-of-city areas. Leander will charge $5.40.The $725,000 Leander-Georgetown utility...
In May, Rancho Sienna MUD residents will become Leander water customers.
As discussed during the March 5 Leander City Council meeting, the switch will roughly double water rates for Rancho Sienna residents. City council approved a $388,830 additional services agreement at the meeting, which extends water into the Rancho Sienna MUD and allows for water service beginning in late May.
Georgetown charges $1.75 per one 1,000 gallons of water in out-of-city areas. Leander will charge $5.40.
The $725,000 Leander-Georgetown utility agreement affects about 1,100 current water customers in the Rancho Sienna MUD. The MUD can increase to 1,414 customers once fully developed.
At the March 5 meeting, Councilmember Christine Sederquist said a 9,000-gallon customer would currently pay about $40, and the new bill with Leander rates would pay $97 for water, not including wastewater, according to a city mockup.
Rancho Sienna residents were first informed of the change in 2017, which was scheduled to take place in 2018, according to Leander city documents. Sederquist and other council members encouraged both cities to inform affected residents before the switch.
“They are families. They have budgets,” Sederquist said. “I don’t want to surprise them with their brand new, double-sized water bills.”
City spokesperson Mike Neu said the cities are working together to inform residents in advance of the change.
Leander City Engineer Wayne Watts said regardless of who supplies water to the MUD, the customers’ rates would increase. He said Georgetown cannot supply the water because costs would be too high.
Robert Powers, the city’s finance director, said water accounts in the Rancho Sienna MUD will automatically enroll in the city of Leander’s water service. He said Leander’s costs are higher because of fixed costs, which could lower with the addition of more customers.
Water accounts that were created on or before Sept. 12, 2014 are excluded from the rate change and are grandfathered in to existing rates.
A settlement between the cities was signed in August 2014. Georgetown and the Chisholm Trail Special Utility District would give water-control of the area to Leander after a certificate of convenience and necessity. For the water transfer, Leander paid $725,000 to Georgetown, which includes $425,000 paid in December 2014 and $300,000 to be paid when water service begins, according to Leander city documents.
Powers estimates the city will receive $360,000 each year from Rancho Sienna MUD customers.
Additionally, since late 2017 Georgetown and Leander have been in ongoing negotiations regarding potential wholesale purchases, Powers said.
The Fort Bend County Toll Road Authority will begin construction on an extension of the Fort Bend Parkway Toll Road from Sienna Parkway to Sienna Ranch Road following the project’s approval at a Fort Bend County Commissioners Court meeting Aug. 24.The extension will be located in Missouri City, south of Sienna Springs Drive near Pecan Estates, according to FBCTRA officials.The new section of road will be located on land predesignated for the extension, as it was planned before any houses were built, said Gary Gehbauer, di...
The Fort Bend County Toll Road Authority will begin construction on an extension of the Fort Bend Parkway Toll Road from Sienna Parkway to Sienna Ranch Road following the project’s approval at a Fort Bend County Commissioners Court meeting Aug. 24.
The extension will be located in Missouri City, south of Sienna Springs Drive near Pecan Estates, according to FBCTRA officials.
The new section of road will be located on land predesignated for the extension, as it was planned before any houses were built, said Gary Gehbauer, director of program management for BGE Inc., an engineering firm working on the project.
Design work for the project began in 2019, according to the FBCTRA. Construction is expected to begin in mid-September and is projected to be completed by late 2022 or early 2023.
According to the FBCTRA, the extension will be four lanes and include a northbound exit ramp and a southbound entrance ramp at Sienna Parkway. It will also include a northbound entrance ramp, a southbound exit ramp and a traffic signal at Sienna Ranch Road.
The budget for the extension’s construction and design is $43.3 million, officials with the FBCTRA said. Funding for the project comes from toll revenue, Gehbauer said.The segment is part of a larger project to extend the Fort Bend Parkway Toll Road from where it begins, at Hwy. 90 and Chimney Rock Road, across the Brazos River to FM 2759 and up to the Fort Bend Grand Parkway Toll Road.
There is no specific timeline for the remaining phases of the project, however, the design of the extension to FM 2759 is expected to cost $20.5 million.
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Claire joined Community Impact Newspaper in September 2019 as the reporter for the Sugar Land/Missouri City edition and in December 2021 moved to Austin to become the reporter for the Northwest Austin edition. In May 2022, she was promoted to be editor for the Cedar Park/Leander and Georgetown editions. She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin in May 2019 where she studied journalism, government and Arabic. While in school, Claire was a fellow for The Texas Tribune, worked for the student newspaper, The Daily Texan, and spent a semester in Washington, D.C. She enjoys playing cards with her family and listening to the Boss, Bruce Springsteen.
This is your chance to live your own Yellowstone dream right here in Texas. The Tigner Ranch, just 30 minutes from Houston, is on the market for $8,880,570 after being owned by the same family for 147 years.The Tigner family is a vital part of Houston's history. One member of the family, Hugh Parnell, was one of the five who signed the charter for the city of Houston. Another individual, Herbert Tigner, was...
This is your chance to live your own Yellowstone dream right here in Texas. The Tigner Ranch, just 30 minutes from Houston, is on the market for $8,880,570 after being owned by the same family for 147 years.
The Tigner family is a vital part of Houston's history. One member of the family, Hugh Parnell, was one of the five who signed the charter for the city of Houston. Another individual, Herbert Tigner, was considered so accomplished that a Texas State Senate Proclamation of Mourning was issued at his death.
The 647-acre ranch lies south of Sienna with one-half of an acre of the Brazos River running through it. The Tigner Ranch is fully fenced with cross-fencing within it, ideal for separating cattle or other livestock from hay production. The land comes with an agriculture exemption so purchases made to produce agricultural products raised or harvested to sell are sales tax exempt.
If hunting is more of interest, the land has deer, hogs and predators with open fields, mature oaks and woods.
Perhaps the outdoor life is not what the next owner will have in mind, but rather development. The ranch has thousands of undeveloped acreage to the south and west, while housing developments sit to the north and east. With the development and the potential of the Grand Parkway headed near to the Tigner Ranch, the property could be a great investment for someone with an eye to the future.
There is electricity throughout the property, and a maintained road runs through most of it.
The Tigner Ranch is priced at $13,500 per acre. This "represents a sizable discount for the area due to the floodplain/floodway as neighboring properties sell for $30,000 to $40,000 per acre," Elaine McCampbell, marketing director of Ruple Properties, said via email.
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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateInches of heavy rainfall, golf ball-sized hail and severe lightning and thunder rocked the Greater Houston area Thursday night into Friday morning, leaving some drivers stranded and roads inundated for hours.Reader-submitted drone video shows scenes from Camp Sienna in Sienna Plantation where baseball fields were left completely underwater. According to officials with the Sienna Plantation levee improvement district, Camp Sienna is located outside of Sienna Plantation...
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Inches of heavy rainfall, golf ball-sized hail and severe lightning and thunder rocked the Greater Houston area Thursday night into Friday morning, leaving some drivers stranded and roads inundated for hours.
Reader-submitted drone video shows scenes from Camp Sienna in Sienna Plantation where baseball fields were left completely underwater. According to officials with the Sienna Plantation levee improvement district, Camp Sienna is located outside of Sienna Plantation's levee and drainage system and was designed to go underwater when the Brazos River floods.
The camp was closed in anticipation of the Brazos rising, officials said.
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The Houston region saw between one and seven inches of rain overnight, according to the Harris County Flood Warning System. Rain has subsided as of late Friday morning, but more heavy rainfall is set to hit later tonight, according to the National Weather Service.
Most Houston area school districts have cancelled class Friday. Find a full list of closures here.
EDITORS NOTE: This story has been updated to reflect new information that the photos show flooding at Camp Sienna, which is in Sienna Plantation. Homes inside Sienna Plantation were not affected.
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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateWith enrollment expected to exceed school capacity by more than 1,000 students within five years at Ridge Point High School, Fort Bend ISD trustees recently agreed to move forward with plans for a new high school to be built in or near Sienna Plantation.At the June 18 school board meeting, trustees approved funds for land and construction as part of a not-yet-approved school bond election expected to total as much as $1.7 billion. Even if approved by voters in Novembe...
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With enrollment expected to exceed school capacity by more than 1,000 students within five years at Ridge Point High School, Fort Bend ISD trustees recently agreed to move forward with plans for a new high school to be built in or near Sienna Plantation.
At the June 18 school board meeting, trustees approved funds for land and construction as part of a not-yet-approved school bond election expected to total as much as $1.7 billion. Even if approved by voters in November, trustees say the new campus isn’t expected to open its doors for six years. To bridge the gap, plans are being developed for large-scale re-zoning to move Ridge Point students to Hightower High School beginning in the 2019 school year. Trustees now say the re-zoning proposal will be expanded to balance enrollment at Elkins, Travis, Willowridge and Marshall high schools.
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“To me, this is an opportunity to include Elkins and Marshall high schools,” trustee Addie Heyliger said.
Trustees are also working on plans for new programs such as an early college high school and various academies as a way to increase enrollment at Willowridge and Marshall high schools, where future enrollment is expected to remain below policy limits. But as several east district campuses currently have space available for Ridge Point students, Heyliger said she was not convinced there was a need to build another high school.
“If we’re not going to do anything courageous like re-zone, it becomes extremely difficult for me,” Heyliger said.
Trustee Kristin Tassin said plans for re-zoning would allow the opportunity for community input as part of the process but would need to start as soon as possible.
“All of Sienna can’t fit in one high school. All of Sienna probably can’t fit in two high schools at this point,” Tassin said. “So, we’re going to have to look at (expanded) re-zoning anyway.”
Trustee Dave Rosenthall said he favored re-zoning “sooner rather than later.”
Trustee Grayle James asked if the bond proposal could be changed later on if re-districting and the new programing options created an enrollment shift.
“What happens if we change our minds?” she asked.
According to board president Jason Burdine, trustees can later decide not to build the high school if they agree it is not needed. The bond money allocated for the high school could not be spent on other projects but it would remain unused, he said after the meeting.
During public comment, parent Erin Miles urged trustees to include the new school in the bond package.
“It’s about planning for the worst and hoping for the best,” she told trustees. “We know our taxes will go up. We know the school won’t be in Sienna and we truly believe building it is the right thing to do.”
Trustees are expected to vote for final approval of the proposed November school bond package at the Aug. 13 board meeting.