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Neck Pain Treatment: Results of the Bone and Joint Decade 2000-2010 Task Force on Neck Pain and Its
The Effects Of ‘Low Impact’ Motor Vehicle Collisions On Spine And Joint Pain And Degeneration

The Effects Of ‘Low Impact’ Motor Vehicle Collisions On Spine And Joint Pain And Degeneration

Can Injury Occur In Low Impact Motor Vehicle Collisions?Today in 2008 its almost a foregone conclusion and certainly professional experience confirms that automobile accident insurance company claim adjusters, defense attorneys, and medical experts for the defense continue to proclaim that an individual within a vehicle involved in a collision cannot be injured if their vehicle sustains only minimum structural [..]

Low Back Pain: An Ice Pack or the Hot Tub?

Low Back Pain: An Ice Pack or the Hot Tub?

Many patients perform some self-care when they first hurt their lower back, hoping this will keep them out of a doctor's office. While home remedies can sometimes make the pain go away, sometimes they don't. It just depends on what you try. When the back is first hurt, it's often a sprain/strain type of injury [..]

Our Hands and Quality Of Life with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Our Hands and Quality Of Life with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

We sometimes take our hands for granted and fail to realize just how important they are to our everyday lives. So when hand function is diminished, the loss can be devastating. Such is the case with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). To anyone who suffers from this disorder, the loss is obvious. Researchers have noted that [..]

Fibromyalgia: Report Suggests Modest Exercise Helps Patients with Chronic Pain

Fibromyalgia: Report Suggests Modest Exercise Helps Patients with Chronic Pain

A report presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Pain Medicine in February 2008 suggests that your level of physical fitness can have dramatic effects on pain, both immediately and over the long-term.A lack of physical fitness often goes hand-in-hand with chronic pain, because when you hurt, you may exercise less. [..]

Are Headaches Undertreated?

Are Headaches Undertreated?

With all the different types of pain relievers available at the corner drug store, you'd think headache sufferers would have a solution to their problem. However, such is not the case and headaches continue to be a great burden on society. What's more, it seems many doctors may even under-diagnose this common problem. A 2008 [..]

Things to Consider About Automobile Insurance

Things to Consider About Automobile Insurance

Most states require drivers to carry various types of insurance to protect themselves as well as others who may be involved in an unfortunate accident. Drivers (and the institutions that may carry the car's loan) generally think of the vehicle first when deciding on appropriate coverage. While it's difficult to think about, you need to [..]

Anatomical Leg Length Inequality (Short Leg)

Anatomical Leg Length Inequality (Short Leg)

A Commonly Overlooked Component In Unresolved Back Pain In 1895, German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovered x-rays and radiographs. Soon thereafter, radiographs of the spine began to appear in prominent healthcare research and literature. Later in 1916, Harvard Orthopedic Surgeon Robert W. Lovett, MD, published the third edition of his book Lateral Curvature of the Spine [..]

Low Back "Do"s and "Don't"s

Low Back "Do"s and "Don't"s

We all know it's important to maintain good back health by doing things that help strengthen it and avoid the things that cause harm. This is just common sense. But just what are the "things" we need to avoid and what are some simple activities we can do to prevent back problems from occurring in [..]

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Straws?

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Straws?

The old expression "the straw that broke the camel's back" is quite appropriate in regards to many human diseases. Carpal tunnel syndrome is a disease caused by the compression of the median nerve as it passes through the carpal tunnel in the wrist, though patients can experience carpal tunnel symptoms if there is nerve interference [..]

Fibromyalgia and the drug "Lyrica"

Fibromyalgia and the drug "Lyrica"

In 2007, Lyrica was approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of fibromyalgia symptoms.Lyrica was originally used to treat neuropathic (nerve) pain associated with shingles or diabetes. Since many suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms in the United States alone (at least 3-6 million), it's little wonder that patients may be [..]

Is It a Sinus Headache?

Is It a Sinus Headache?

There are several types of headaches and what causes them can range from the mundane (too little sleep) to the dangerous (a brain tumor). Some of the most common types of head pain are tension-type headaches and migraines. If commercials on television are any indication, headaches caused by sinus problems also seem to be quite [..]