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10/13/2026

Pain meds not working like they used to? 👇

A lot of people are taking medication that was never going to fix their pain on its own, and nobody told them. If that's you, there's a good chance you're dealing with nerve pain, and nerve pain has options most people have never heard of 👇

⚡ What nerve pain feels like
Burning, tingling, electric, shooting. Legs and feet are the most common, especially with diabetes. Arms and hands from a damaged or pinched nerve. The area where you had shingles. The spot where you had back surgery. If your pain lives in one of those places and describes like that, keep reading.

💊 Why the pills stopped doing their job
Most people assume medication will take care of the pain fully. For nerve pain it often lowers the volume without getting anywhere near the source, and long-term use of some of these medications, opioids especially, adds a whole new set of problems on top. Doses climbing while the pain stays is the giveaway.

🔍 Step one: find out if it's actually a nerve
Before anything gets treated, the pain has to be traced to its source. A full exam, your imaging reviewed or new imaging ordered, and a clear answer on whether a nerve is generating it. Treatment only gets matched once we know.

🔌 Step two: the option almost nobody tells you about
It's called spinal cord stimulation. A small device, similar to a pacemaker, sits under the skin and sends gentle electrical impulses to the spinal cord. Those impulses interfere with the pain signal before it reaches your brain. It's adjustable, and it's reversible.

🧪 Nothing permanent until it's proven on you
It starts with a trial. Temporary leads are placed, you live with it for a period, and you find out how much relief you actually get. If it doesn't help, it comes out. Only after a successful trial does the permanent device get placed. One of my patients with chronic pelvic pain had years of nerve blocks, medication and therapy. Her trial gave her 100% relief, and she's now scheduling the implant.

If this sounds like you and you're in South Florida, comment or DM me the word RELIEF and we'll help you with the next steps.

10/09/2026

These are the 4 questions I ask 👇

I hear this all the time. Someone paid for PRP, felt nothing, and decided it doesn't work. Before you land there, run through these, because in most of the cases I see, one of them is the answer 👇

1️⃣ Was the right kit used?
PRP isn't regulated by the FDA, so there are a lot of different kits and a lot of ways to prepare the sample. Some of them don't produce a sample that's actually platelet rich. If the concentration wasn't there, you didn't really get PRP.

2️⃣ Was there image guidance?
An ultrasound or an X-ray machine guiding the needle. Without it, the chance of reaching the exact spot drops a lot, and a PRP injection that lands next to the problem instead of on it does very little.

3️⃣ Was the diagnosis right?
PRP only helps if it's put where the pain is actually coming from. If nobody pinned down the source before injecting, the PRP may have gone into the wrong structure entirely.

4️⃣ Were you prepared for it?
This one nobody talks about. Your diet in the lead-up matters. So does stopping anti-inflammatories beforehand, because they work against what PRP is trying to do. Skip the prep and you can blunt the result before the needle goes in.

Here's why this matters. One PRP injection that missed tells you about that injection. It tells you very little about whether PRP can work for you. The kit, the imaging, the diagnosis and the prep all decide the outcome, and every one of them is something you can ask about before you spend the money again.

If this sounds like you and you're in South Florida, comment or DM me the word RELIEF and we'll help you with the next steps.

Elite Relief MD | Dr. Kelly DeSouza, MD | Double board-certified interventional pain management | Davie, FL | Serving South Florida

10/07/2026

Watch a pain doctor treat hip bursitis under ultrasound 👇

This patient has hip pain that travels down her leg. Two things are going on, and today both get treated. Here's what's happening on screen 👇

But first, if this sounds like you and you're in South Florida, comment or DM me the word RELIEF and we'll help you with the next steps.

🎯 What's causing it
There's a small fluid-filled cushion on the outside of the hip called the bursa, and hers is inflamed. That's bursitis. On top of that, the tendons of the gluteal muscles that attach right there are irritated too. Together they're what makes the outside of the hip hurt to lie on, and why the pain runs down the leg.

💉 What we're injecting
PRP into the bursa, then into the gluteal tendons where the tendinitis is. As the injection goes in, the needle gets fanned through the area so the PRP spreads across the whole bursa and the muscle instead of pooling in one spot.

📡 Why the ultrasound
It lets us see the bursa and the gluteal muscles clearly and watch the needle the whole way. Without imaging, an injection here is a guess, and a hip injection that lands in the wrong layer does very little.

Here's why this matters. Hip bursitis gets treated with steroid shots over and over, and for a lot of people the relief keeps shrinking. My patients with hip bursitis have done well with PRP, and the goal is a longer-lasting result from treating the tissue itself.

If this sounds like you and you're in South Florida, comment or DM me the word RELIEF and we'll help you with the next steps.

Elite Relief MD | Dr. Kelly DeSouza, MD | Double board-certified interventional pain management | Davie, FL | Serving South Florida

10/05/2026

If it hurts to chew, talk or brush your teeth, read this 👇

There's one nerve that carries almost every feeling in your face, and when it's irritated, everyday things set it off. Eating. Talking. Touching your cheek. A lot of people go years thinking it's their teeth or their jaw. Here's what I'd want you to know 👇

⚡ What it feels like
Sharp, electric or burning pain on one side of the face, triggered by ordinary movement. It can hit the cheek, the jaw, around the eye or the teeth. Dental work doesn't fix it because it was never the teeth. That nerve is called the trigeminal nerve, and pain coming from it has a name and a treatment.

💉 What we do to treat it
A trigeminal nerve block. A small injection of numbing medicine placed near the nerve, using image guidance so it lands where it's supposed to. The same injection does two jobs: if the pain stops, it confirms the nerve is the source, and for many people the relief lasts well beyond the numbing.

🔍 The detail
Before the block, an exam and your imaging reviewed or new imaging ordered, to make sure nothing else is going on in that area. Medication is usually the first thing people have already been given for this, and when it isn't enough, the block is the next step. Some people need one or two. Some come back if it flares.

Here's why this matters. An 80-year-old woman came to me with pain on the right side of her face from an irritated trigeminal nerve. It hurt to eat. It hurt to talk. After two trigeminal nerve blocks her pain was resolved.

If this sounds like you and you're in South Florida, comment or DM me the word RELIEF and we'll help you with the next steps.

Elite Relief MD | Dr. Kelly DeSouza, MD | Double board-certified interventional pain management | Davie, FL | Serving South Florida

10/02/2026

Treating your pain starts with finding its source 👇

If you want a closer look at what's causing your pain and the treatments that can help, comment or DM the word RELIEF.

Elite Relief MD | Dr. Kelly DeSouza, MD | Double board-certified interventional pain management | Davie, FL | Serving South Florida

10/01/2026

Headaches that start at the back of your neck? 👇

They might not be coming from your head. There's a nerve at the base of the skull that runs up into the back of your head, and when it gets irritated, usually from the neck, it causes headaches that get treated as migraines for years. Here's what I'd want you to know 👇

⚡ What it feels like
Sharp, jabbing or zapping pain that starts at the back of the head or neck and spreads up. The scalp can be tender to touch. Turning your neck can set it off. If you've had this for years and the migraine medication has never quite fit, this is worth ruling out.

🩺 What you need to do
See a board-certified pain physician, and ask them to look at the neck, not just the head. That means an exam of the head and neck, your imaging reviewed or new imaging ordered to rule out anything else, and then the test that gives the answer: a small injection of numbing medicine near that nerve. If the headache stops for a while, that's your diagnosis. Ask for it by name if you have to. It's called an occipital nerve block.

💉 What can be done once you know
The same nerve block used to find it also treats it. Botox is an option for migraine patterns. And for people whose blocks help but wear off, a small stimulator placed near that nerve can interrupt the pain signal for the long term. Which one is right depends on what the exam shows.

Here's why this matters. A 67-year-old woman came to me with years of headaches, along with face, neck and arm pain. She'd seen neurologists and other pain doctors, had injections elsewhere, done physical therapy, and gotten no real relief. We did a couple of epidurals for the neck, put her on Botox for the migraines, and she gets an occasional nerve block. Her pain is controlled and she's back to her normal self.

If this sounds like you and you're in South Florida, comment or DM me the word RELIEF and we'll help you with the next steps.

Elite Relief MD | Dr. Kelly DeSouza, MD | Double board-certified interventional pain management | Davie, FL | Serving South Florida

09/30/2026

Watch a pain doctor start a trial for burning feet from diabetes 👇

This patient has burning nerve pain in both feet and both legs from diabetes. Today she's getting a spinal cord stimulator trial. Here's what's happening on screen 👇

🔌 What we're placing
A thin lead into the space along the spinal cord. It delivers high frequency stimulation, a technology called HF10, that interferes with the nerve pain signal coming up from her legs before it reaches her brain. It's built for exactly this kind of pain.

🧪 Why it's a trial first
Nothing permanent is happening today. She'll live with the temporary lead for a period and find out how much relief she actually gets. If it works, the permanent device gets placed. If it doesn't, it comes out. That's the whole point of a trial.

🎯 One lead instead of two
She has a lot of narrowing in her spine, so there's only room for one lead where we'd usually place two. For her, one should be enough to cover the pain in both legs. Every one of these gets adapted to the spine in front of us.

Here's why this matters. Another patient of mine with the same problem, severe burning in both lower legs and feet from diabetes, spent years on medications that gave minimal relief with side effects. He had a spinal cord stimulator placed and has sustained 85% relief. He sleeps better, walks better, and has stopped the medications. This trial is how you find out if that's you.

If this sounds like you and you're in South Florida, comment or DM me the word RELIEF and we'll help you with the next steps.

Elite Relief MD | Dr. Kelly DeSouza, MD | Double board-certified interventional pain management | Davie, FL | Serving South Florida

09/24/2026

Was your pain ever properly diagnosed? 👇

Plenty of people have been treated for years without it. A name on your MRI and the structure generating your pain today are two different things, and these are the giveaways 👇

🩺 You were treated before you were examined
A prescription or a shot in the first few minutes, and nobody asked where it starts, where it travels, or what makes it worse. Those questions are the diagnosis. Skip them and the treatment is a guess.

🔁 You've had the same treatment more than once
The dose keeps climbing, or the same shot gets repeated every few months, and nothing has really changed. A treatment that didn't work the first time is telling you the target was probably wrong.

🗣️ You've been told "it's just arthritis" or "it's your age"
Those are descriptions, and a lot of people hear them as a verdict. Neither one tells you which structure is generating the pain, and that's the part that decides the treatment.

❓ You can't say where it's coming from
Disc, joint, nerve, muscle. If nobody has ever told you which one, nobody has found it yet.

Here's the good news. The work happens before anything gets treated. A full exam, your imaging reviewed or new imaging ordered, and the structure causing your pain pinned down first. Then the treatment gets matched to what we actually found in your body, so the first thing we try is aimed at the real source.

If you want my help finding the source of yours, comment or message the word RELIEF and we'll send you the link to book.

Elite Relief MD | Dr. Kelly DeSouza, MD | Double board-certified interventional pain management | Davie, FL | Serving South Florida

09/23/2026

Your shoulder pain has a source 👇

It could be a rotator cuff tear, arthritis, bursitis, or a frozen shoulder. Each one needs a different fix, and guessing at it is how people end up stuck 👇

🔍 First, we find the source
We start with imaging and locate the exact structure generating your pain. Until we know that, any treatment is a guess.

🎯 Then we aim the treatment at it
For a lot of shoulders that's PRP or another regenerative treatment, which uses your body's own healing to repair the damage rather than only quieting it down.

Here's the good news 👇

Shoulder pain doesn't have to be something you just accept. Let's get to the bottom of it together.

If you want to know your options or you're looking for help, comment the word "relief" or send me a message with the word "relief" and we'll reach out.

Elite Relief MD | Dr. Kelly DeSouza, MD | Double board-certified interventional pain management | Davie, FL | Serving South Florida

09/21/2026

Her back pain only needs treating once a year 👇

Dr. Kelly is about to inject this patient's mid back with something made from her own blood. This is what's in the syringe 👇

🩸 What PRP actually is

PRP stands for platelet rich plasma
We draw a small amount of your own blood and spin it down until the platelets are concentrated
What goes back in came from your own body

🔬 How it helps

Platelets are what your body sends to an injury to start repairs
They carry growth factors that signal tissue to heal
Concentrating them and placing them right at the painful area puts far more of that signal where you need it
The goal is to help the tissue itself

💉 How it's different from a cortisone shot

Cortisone calms a flare for a while and the tissue stays as it was
PRP goes after the tissue causing the pain

⏳ What it's looked like for this patient

She has chronic back pain and comes in about once every year to year and a half
PRP controls her symptoms that whole stretch, and she keeps improving
When pain starts to return in a different area, we treat that area with PRP too

🏥 What it's not

No hospital stay
No incision

If you're dealing with pain that hasn't gone away and you want me to take a look, comment or DM me the word RELIEF and we'll help you with the next steps.

Elite Relief MD | Dr. Kelly DeSouza, MD | Double board-certified interventional pain management | Davie, FL | Serving South Florida

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