Depending on its severity, joint pain can either be an inconvenient nuisance or a debilitating obstacle to living a normal, active life. What’s more, treating a sore shoulder, aching elbow, or painful knee often requires extensive treatment and rehabilitation. Wouldn’t it be great if your body could simply heal itself? Now it can with the…
From easing headaches to relieving chronic back pain, chiropractic care is an essential element of many pain management plans. Chiropractic medicine is a centuries-old practice that came into its own in the very late-1900s, when Daniel David Palmer used an “adjustment” to realign misplaced vertebrae in a patient’s back. As a result, Dr. Palmer helped…
Discs are rubbery structures located between vertebrae of the spine, where they absorb shock and assist with movement. Discs weaken over time, and weakened discs may shift from their normal position – a condition called a bulging disc. Initially, there may be little or no pain associated with a bulging disc, unless the protruding portion…
Back pain is an epidemic that affects up to 80 percent of adults during their lifetime, according to the National Institutes of Health (a division of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services). In fact, back problems are the most common cause of job-related disability. It is an all-encompassing condition that not only targets…
Do you know which contact sports cause the most concussions? If you said football, you are doubly correct. Both football and what we Americans refer to as soccer are at the top of the list for sports-related brain injury to both adult athletes and children. We all know what can happen when two players collide…
Many people have a fear of flying – but when it comes to heading out on the highway, most don’t think twice about the risks. Riding in a motor vehicle presents an increased risk of getting into an accident and suffering orthopedic injuries. In fact, vehicle crashes are the number-one cause of unintentional injury in…
Lower back pain is one of the most common sources of chronic discomfort, and it can be brought on by everything from straining a muscle to a pinched nerve to chronic arthritis. Whatever the cause, all you want is relief. Fortunately, there are many effective treatments for lower back pain, depending on how simple or…
Living with chronic pain can be debilitating to a person’s quality of life. While there are numerous pain management techniques out there, finding the right one for you can be difficult. In fact, most people don’t have just one solution for pain management. It often takes a combination of treatments to tamp down and control…
The late, great physicist Stephen Hawking was onto something when he said, “To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.” After all, many of earth’s most cutting-edge technologies were inspired by the vastness of outer space. One great example is the AlterG anti-gravity treadmill. Dr. Robert Whalen was working…
Modern science has significantly affected how pain is managed today as opposed to a few years ago. “Take two aspirin and call me in the morning,” is an old joke that wasn’t too far removed from the truth back in the day. Health professionals at one time had a limited arsenal to combat their patient’s…
