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Happy Holidays and a Scary New Rear? Five Tips to Avoid the Holiday Spread
With sugarplums and figgy puddings dancing in our heads this season, it can be a challenge for anyone to stay on track with their clean eating goals and to avoid holiday weight gain. Extra calories abound, whether it’s from those delicious sugar cookies at the office or the extra slice of pecan pie after dinner, […]
Natural Back Pain Relief with Chiropractic Care
As most students in college can attest to, I was in graduate school sitting in a classroom for hours on end through lectures wondering “when can I get up for a break and move around?” These countless hours eventually led to poor posture habits and back pain that I had never experienced before in my […]
Understand Inflammation to Find Peripheral Neuropathy Pain Relief
It is estimated that 20 million Americans have some form of peripheral neuropathy, a painful and debilitating condition that develops due to damage to the peripheral nervous system. According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, symptoms include: Intense, constant pain or numbness Burning, stabbing, or pins and needles sensations Muscle weakness or […]
Upper Back Pain? Top Tips for Pain Relief
While upper back pain is not the most common spinal disorder among Americans, it can lead to significant discomfort and irritation in the body. Most often, the causes of an ache between the neck and low back are muscular irritation or joint dysfunction, because it’s a relatively stable, immobile area. What can you do to […]
The Connection Between Stress and Arthritis Symptoms
The pain and strain of coping with a condition like rheumatoid arthritis is not only physically taxing, the mental and emotional stress associated with the chronic condition are also exhausting and can actually contribute to a heightened sense of the symptoms, increased inflammation in the body, and can put you at risk of developing other […]
Advice to Keep Your Neck in Check
Sometimes, life can be a real pain in the neck. From parenting to particular professions, texting to taking a morning jog, the neck, or cervical spine, can’t be ignored. Its job is to bear the full weight of the head – a good 12 pounds or so – while enabling it to move in many […]
Avoid Neck Pain By Improving Forward Neck Posture
Neck pain is a very common complaint with more than 25% of Americans reporting this type of chronic pain. For some, pain may start to feel like an inevitable part of life, but it doesn’t have to be that way. You can experience chronic pain relief, even from neck pain. What many people don’t realize […]
September is Pain Awareness Month
They say knowledge is power, and that’s true when it comes to pain management too. At Health Star Clinic we want you to have the power to take back your health and live a pain free life. Our team of medical doctors, nurses, chiropractors and physical therapists work together with you to determine the most […]
Foam Rolling: The Easy Way to Ease Back and Sciatic Nerve Pain
According to the Global Burden of Disease study conducted in 2010, low back pain is the single leading cause of disability worldwide, and half of all American adults admit to having back pain symptoms every year.