The summer season is fully here! As we are enjoying the warm weather, barbecues and the excitement of pre-Olympic warm-ups, are you feeling red with anger, white with pain, and blue with being sidelined with low back and leg pain? If so, read on. First Understanding Sciatic Nerve Pain Your sciatic nerve is the longest...
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According to “conventional wisdom,” hard mattresses are best for people with back pain. However, a well-designed study found that, over the period of one month, those sleeping on hard mattresses did slightly worse in terms of back symptoms and sleep quality than those sleeping on either bodyconforming foam mattresses or water beds. It seems that...
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Click, click, click. Nowadays you are unable to turn on the television without a commercial appearing, for some new pharmaceutical drug that will cure whatever condition or disease that your body may be suffering from at the moment. Drug manufacturers commonly advertise on television and in various other media to encourage people to “Ask your doctor...
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“Facet joint syndrome” is inflammation of the connections between the bones of the spine (vertebrae) that provide the spinal column with flexibility. Aside from allowing the spine to bend and rotate, they also prevent the back from slipping too far forward or twisting without limits. When these joints become swollen due to osteoarthritis or injury,...
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Have you ever scrolled through you Facebook and found a common thread of illness and heartache now being posted almost virally between friends and family you know and their re-posts? As our world connection is virtually delivered, we are able to see that chronic disease has now touched more of our lives than ever before....
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Few things in life occur in isolation. Because the body is an interconnected structure, back pain is seldom limited to only the back. If left untreated, back pain can lead to osteoarthritis of the hips. In fact, an analysis of patients with low back pain shows that they experienced a higher incidence of hip osteoarthritis...
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