EXPERT
Nichelle Renk, M.D.
Pain Management Specialist
- Anchorage, AK
- Virginia Commonwealth University
- Accepting new patients
How Botox® Works to Relieve Migraine Pain
Chronic migraines leave you struggling to cope with symptoms of pain and sensory sensitivity. as well as juggling your life around the disruption posed by your many headache days....
Do I Still Need Supplements If I Eat A Healthy Diet?
Good nutrition is far more complicated than just eating low-fat or low-calorie foods to maintain a healthy weight. Your body also relies on the many essential vitamins and nutrients...
Posture Exercises to Prevent Neck Pain
Adults in the United States often deal with neck pain. Whether it’s because of bad posture habits, spinal stress from work or commuting, or a lack of stretching, you may be putting...
How Effective is Spinal Cord Stimulation?
Persistent chronic pain involves abnormal pain signals transmitting through your spinal cord to register as sensations in your brain. For some types of chronic pain, effective...
Why Are Autoimmune Disorders Becoming So Common?
Lupus, thyroid disease, and rheumatoid arthritis are among dozens of known autoimmune diseases. This group of diseases involves your immune system attacking your body’s own healthy...
3 Indications for Stellate Ganglion Blocks: CRPS, PTSD, and Long-Haul COVID
Long-term conditions like complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and long-haul COVID-19 can be difficult to treat. Symptoms of pain, fatigue,...
3 Lifestyle Changes to Slow Osteoarthritis Progression
Receiving a diagnosis for osteoarthritis (OA) means you’re at risk for progressive degeneration of your joints. OA can be painful and limiting to live with. How should you handle...
Little-Known Causes of Back Pain
Does low or mid back pain keep you up at night, or keep you from getting or staying active the way you’d like? You’re not alone: Back pain affects nearly all adults at some point....
Myths and Facts About Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
Nonexperts often misunderstand diseases like hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (EDS). Harmful myths about what it’s like to have this connective tissue disorder can lead to adverse...
Chronic Pain: Can Radiofrequency Ablation Help?
Chronic pain seems to echo around your body, felt everywhere and nowhere, without a clear physical cause like an injury to explain your pain symptoms. As a way to give lasting...
5 Benefits of Using Botox to Treat Cervical Dystonia
Cervical dystonia, a movement disorder that causes you to develop involuntary muscle spasms in your neck, can be uncomfortable and limiting. Did you know that the Food and Drug...
Diabetic Neuropathy Risks and Treatment Options
In people living with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, long-term cases of high blood sugar levels create health and wellness risks. Among the potential complications of diabetes, peripheral...
COOLIEF® Radiofrequency Ablation: What to Expect
When you suffer from chronic pain, you need effective treatments to relieve pain and maintain full mobility and quality of life. Cooled radiofrequency ablation (RFA) treatment...
Ketamine for Severe Depression: What to Expect
The symptoms of severe depression, ranging from persistent sadness to sleeplessness and including constant feelings of exhaustion or loss of interest in hobbies and personal goals,...
I'm Ready to Start a Journey to Wellness: Where Do I Begin?
As a new year starts, many people’s minds turn to assessing health and wellness. Are you healthy? Are you operating at optimum wellness? And, looking ahead, are you setting...
Cooled RFA for Shoulder and Knee Compared With Steroid Injections
Chronic shoulder or knee pain due to conditions like osteoarthritis reduces your mobility and limits your quality of life. Innovative interventional pain management treatments...
Why Ketamine Might Be the Right Treatment for Your Migraines
Chronic migraine headaches disrupt your daily life. Whether your migraines come with or without a pre-headache “aura,” headache days mean sensitivity to sensory stimuli, including...
4 Reasons to Include Supplements in Your Diet
You do your best to eat right and give your body the nutritional support it needs, but it can be challenging to get sufficient levels of essential vitamins, minerals, and other...
Treating Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome with Lifestyle Modifications
It has become increasingly clear that people living with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) need specialized care, treatment, and lifestyle modifications. That’s why interventional...
What is Triggering Your Migraines?
The Migraine Research Foundation notes that around 12% of all adults in the United States deal with migraines. Migraines are more common in women than in men but can affect patients...
Why does my stomach hurt often?
That is difficult to answer as there may be many sources of your GI pain. For example, it can be your gallbladder, appendix, pancreas, stomach, liver, bowels, blood supply, etc. I would recommend you see your primary care doctor and request a thorough physical exam, labs, and possibly other testing such as an endoscopy, colonoscopy, X-ray, or CT scan.
Sincerely,
Nichelle C. Renk, M.D.
Is anal pain after a hemorrhoids surgery normal?
Yes it would be wise to see a pain specialist ASAP. That doctor can get you on medications to settle down your nervous system to prevent conversion of the acute to chronic pain.
Sincerely,
Nichelle Cook Renk, M.D.
For a sprain what is more advisable a hot pack or a cold pack?
Sincerely,
Nichelle Cook Renk, M.D.
What causes headaches?
We would want to get brain and cervical spine imaging to make sure there is nothing malignant. It is likely an impinged nerve. I would be happy to evaluate you thoroughly in person and create a treatment plan for you.
Sincerely,
Nichelle Cook Renk, M.D.
What is causing my chronic back pain?
Sincerely,
Nichelle Cook Renk, M.D.
