If you’ve been researching stellate ganglion blocks, you’ve probably noticed the vocabulary multiplying: single, dual, DSR and bilateral dual. Are these different procedures—or simply different names for similar approaches? Fair questions. Let’s untangle the...
Your head feels too heavy for your neck. Headaches bloom at the base of your skull. Turning to check a blind spot brings dizziness, brain fog, or a wave of “wrongness” that’s hard to put into words. If that sounds familiar — especially if you’ve been told your imaging...
Burning. Tingling. Numbness that comes and goes — or never quite leaves. When a nerve is being squeezed, it has a limited vocabulary. And it tends to repeat itself. If you’ve been living with carpal tunnel syndrome, occipital neuralgia, or another form of nerve...
If you've spent any time researching joint pain treatment, you've probably run into the word "orthobiologics" and wondered what it actually means in practice. Here's the plain-English version. The Big Idea Orthobiologics are treatments that use materials from your own...
Most people who've heard of Stellate Ganglion Block (SGB) know it as a single injection near a bundle of nerves in the neck. Dual Sympathetic Reset (DSR) is a more refined version of that same idea — and it's the protocol Dr. Ryan Wood has performed nearly 3,000 times...
If you've read our earlier piece on tirzepatide and joint health, you already know the basics: this dual GLP-1/GIP medication does a lot more than support weight loss — it appears to calm systemic inflammation along the way. But that raises a follow-up question we...
Summer is when many people become more active again — often faster than their bodies are ready for. At NW Regen in Portland, this time of year commonly brings an increase in patients dealing with knee pain, shoulder irritation, tendon flare-ups, and old injuries that...
A Guided Approach to Healing the Brain and Nervous System Ketamine-assisted therapy is an emerging treatment for conditions like depression, anxiety, PTSD, and chronic stress patterns. At NW Regen, it’s not just a procedure—it’s a structured, supported process...
When the Nervous System Is Part of Pain Chronic pain is often treated as a problem at the site of injury: a sore shoulder, a sensitive nerve, a joint that never quite healed. But for many, the pain continues long after the original issue should have resolved. When...