Dr. Helen Heydari is a family physician who completed her residency program in family medicine at UBC.
She is a member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC (CPSBC), the College of Family Physicians of Canada ( CFPC), the Medical Council of Iran, and the Iranian Anesthesiology Association.
She has skills and experience in culturally sensitive medical settings and the ability to provide care and address patients’ health-related needs in the context of their unique backgrounds based on updated guidelines. She has 20 years of solid understanding of evidence-based medicine, good clinical practice, and patient-centred care in all age spectrums. Dr. Heydari has background experience in anesthesiology and intensive care units in Iran which helps her to provide appropriate care to medically complex patients.
She has a special interest in drug-free musculoskeletal pain management by doing trigger point injections, particularly for chronic back, shoulder, and neck pain.
Trigger points are painful sites inside our muscles or connective tissues. They behave like something caught in the moving parts of our body.
Trigger points are invisible on images such as x-ray, ultrasound or MRI. The pain is related to a specific point inside a muscle. They can feel firm, like a knot embedded in muscle or like a thin sheet of tenderness in the overlying facial layer. Direct pressure over the correct trigger point will reproduce the symptoms, like pain and stiffness, reduced range of motion and mobility and most often not in the same place.
The trigger point needle is hallow and has a behaved edge, which make it possible to mechanically break down painful spots. The needle teeth is used to gently explore around
the area of pain using a drop of local freezing if needed. The scar tissue, inflammation or calcificaiton targets are microdiscected with the tip of the needle. It brings more immune system cells toward spots and allows the restoration of normal blood supply. Examples of acute and chronic causes we treat are rotator cuff pain, Frozen shoulders, IT band tendon (side of the thighs) pain, arms, foot issues and neck pain.
The procedure takes only a few minutes. Trigger point injections utilize sterile medical needles, lidocaine, a local anesthetic, to target the effect of the spots by increasing the flow of oxygenated blood and nutrients. There are NO cortisone involved.
In case of allergy to anesthetics, treatment can be done with nothing in the needle.
TRIGGER POINT INJECTIONS gives Immediate positive side effect including pain relief, feeling softer and looser within tight areas, energized and emotional release.
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