May 2, 2014
Back pain — especially lower back pain — is probably the single most common complaint in American society. Some people have genetic factors that make them more inclined toward back pain than others; some have injuries they got in high school or earlier that changed the way they stand or walk that resulted in long-term, […]
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May 2, 2014
People with chronic lower back pain are familiar with the sensation: you may have had days, weeks, or even months of normalcy, and then — a twinge. A wince, and it’s back. The only question is, how long is it going to plague you this time around? Back pain affects a person off and on […]
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May 2, 2014
Every year, America’s surgeons perform hundreds of thousands of back surgeries — it’s one of the most common surgical operations in the country. Discectomies, laminectomies, spinal fusions — the number of variations on ‘back surgery’ is amazing. Even more amazing is the fact that most of these surgeries are perfectly avoidable if the initial herniated […]
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May 2, 2014
The biggest problem that modern medicine has trying to address something as commonplace as back pain is that modern medicine is built from the get-go on the scientific process that involves eliminating variables and narrowing everything down to a single traceable cause. But the human body isn’t the kind of thing you can experiment like […]
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April 28, 2014
“A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses”. ~ Hippocrates Mental Health: The Relaxation Response: Learn It! Researchers at Harvard recently took a pile of 28 people who had never meditated or done anything similar in their […]
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April 21, 2014
“The best six doctors anywhere, and no one can deny it Are sunshine, water, rest, and air, exercise and diet.” ~ Wayne Fields Mental Health: Living At High Altitude Linked to Depression, Suicide Utah researchers recently uncovered a startling factoid: while the folks in Utah tend to be some of the physically healthiest in the […]
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April 14, 2014
“To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.” ~William Londen Health Alert: Marijuana Less Addictive Than Cigarettes, But Still Addictive One of the few epidemiological studies of marijuana was released over the weekend, having gained importance with Washington and Colorado having recently legalized the […]
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February 27, 2014
Whiplash is a specific kind of traumatic injury that harms the muscles and joints of the neck; while it can break a bone, such a fracture is a rare event. The tissues most injured in a whiplash collision are the neck muscles and joints of the neck: the places where bone meets bone. Muscles cross […]
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February 27, 2014
Whiplash injury research is both extensive and in-depth. Because whiplash is such a common legal battleground, there have been literally thousands of scientific and medical studies on every single aspect of whiplash. For example, we’ve known for a couple of decades now that the primary sources of damage during a whiplash event is the overextension […]
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February 27, 2014
Numerous scientific and medical studies prove that the extent of damage to your vehicle is not a predictor of the extent of damage to your neck caused by a whiplash injury. In short, there’s no connection: you can find severe whiplash in the rider of a vehicle that suffered only a paint scratch, and you […]
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February 27, 2014
One of the most brilliant scientists that ever lived was undoubtedly Sir Isaac Newton – a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, theologian, and natural philosopher whose work has influenced many parts of our society. At age 43 – in 1647 – he published Principia Mathematica, which altered the history of science. In his seminal book, Newton discusses […]
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February 21, 2014
For nearly a century, we’ve known that the best way to get injured muscle tissues to heal is to get them to move – early and often, though not necessarily to the extremes of their normal limits. In particular, treating whiplash injuries has been easiest when combining massage, mobilization and manipulation of the tissues. When […]
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