Month

July 2017
When patients present with low back pain, it is not uncommon for pain to arise from areas other than the low back, such as the hip. There are many tissues in the low back and hip region that are susceptible to injury with have overlapping pain pathways that often make it challenging to isolate the...
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During your lifetime, you’ll eat nearly 60,000 pounds of food. Two-thirds of all office visits to family physicians are due to stress-related symptoms. Eating a naturally healthy breakfast every morning makes you less likely to suffer a heart attack. You are around one centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening! Sour flavors like...
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Exercising is good for back pain… right? Well, it’s not as simple as that. There are good and bad ways to exercise and when you have back pain, it can get much more complicated. “Wear and tear on your discs is cumulative – it all adds up,” says Arya Nick Shamie, M.D., a spokesperson for...
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Just in case you don’t know by now: STRESS IS A KILLER.  It used to be theorized that people got sick because germs invading the body were very strong… stronger than the immune system.  For example, it was believed that once you came in contact with the common cold, you would get sick.  Now, modern...
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