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Depressed with Fibromyalgia?

Depressed with Fibromyalgia?

Many patients with fibromyalgia have long-standing depression, which is more substantial than just having the occasional morning blues. Their muscle pain can either be a cause for their depression or even the effect of a prolonged, depressed state of mind. Or the two may not be linked at all and simply co-exist at the same [..]

Stress and Headaches

Stress and Headaches

How does stress affect your well-being and how is stress related to getting headaches? Let's discuss the most common ways stress can make you more headache prone... While most of us do not get enough sound, restful, and restorative sleep as it is, stress can interfere affect both the quantity and quality of sleep we [..]

Five Exercises to Help Reduce the Risk of Neck Pain

Five Exercises to Help Reduce the Risk of Neck Pain

The neck is the most flexible part of your spine and just like any other area of the body, movement exercises and good posture are important for maintaining its health. Neck pain can be brought on or aggravated by how you treat this vital structure. We often neglect our neck when it comes to exercise, [..]

Five Exercises to Help Reduce the Risk of Neck Pain

Five Exercises to Help Reduce the Risk of Neck Pain

The neck is the most flexible part of your spine and just like any other area of the body, movement exercises and good posture are important for maintaining its health. Neck pain can be brought on or aggravated by how you treat this vital structure. We often neglect our neck when it comes to exercise, [..]

Low Back Pain and Excessive Weight

Low Back Pain and Excessive Weight

Two things that are epidemic in the United States and many Western countries are low back pain and obesity. The two go hand-in-hand and while excessive weight may not be the only cause of your pain, it does makes matters worse by aggravating your pain through increased loading on the disks of the lower back. [..]

Five Stretches to Help with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Five Stretches to Help with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Carpal tunnel syndrome is a debilitating disorder affecting the median nerve as it passes through the wrist and into the hand. In addition, median nerve compression can also occur in the neck region, making some patients' problems more complex. At its essence, carpal tunnel syndrome is a disease of nerves but other tissues can also [..]

Understanding Care Options for Fibromyalgia

Understanding Care Options for Fibromyalgia

Worldwide, fibromyalgia affects up to 5% of the population and about 15 million people in the United States alone. Fibromyalgia is not a disease in the sense that it has a known viral or bacterial cause. Rather, it is a collection of symptoms, mostly pain, that affect the neuromusculoskeletal system. Since other types of diseases [..]

How Can Exercise Help with Headaches?

How Can Exercise Help with Headaches?

For many patients with health conditions, exercise seems to be the furthest thing from their mind. For migraine sufferers, exercise itself can initiate a headache episode. And if you already have a headache, just the idea of going for a three-mile run will likely increase your pain, not lessen it. But exercise is an integral [..]

How Can Exercise Help with Headaches?

How Can Exercise Help with Headaches?

For many patients with health conditions, exercise seems to be the furthest thing from their mind. For migraine sufferers, exercise itself can initiate a headache episode. And if you already have a headache, just the idea of going for a three-mile run will likely increase your pain, not lessen it. But exercise is an integral [..]

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 [..]