Intradiscal Ozone Therapy: A Non-Surgical Option for Disc Herniation and Sciatica

Patients ask about intradiscal ozone. Usually they’ve seen it on an overseas clinic’s website, or come across it in a research summary, and they want to know where it stands here. The honest answer takes a sentence more than most people expect. Medical ozone has no market authorization in Canada — it is not an […]

The Museum of Pain Myths: A Tour of Treatments That Should Come with a Laugh Track

Exhibit #1: The Magical Shrinking Leg Patient lies down. Practitioner grabs both ankles. One foot mysteriously appears a centimetre shorter. Gasps fill the room. “You see? Your pelvis is out. Luckily, I can fix it.” What happened? Usually… nothing. The apparent “short leg” often changes depending on how the patient’s hips are rotated, how the […]

Back Pain vs. Sciatica: Why an Accurate Diagnosis Changes Everything

Most people use “back pain” and “sciatica” almost interchangeably — and that’s exactly where treatment plans start to go wrong. The two are not the same condition, they don’t always share the same cause, and they don’t respond to the same care. At Unika Medical Centre, every plan begins the same way: with a precise […]