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How is Your Form? Simple Ways to Improve Your Running Form
When your body moves forward, either running or walking, your posture and mechanics position you at a certain angle to the ground. Your feet, in turn, make contact with the earth in response to the approach of your legs. The method an individual uses to take forward steps, called gait or running form, can in […]
4 Ways to Relieve Trigger Point Pain in Your Neck
It’s common, especially for those of us who work in front of computers, to experience neck pain after a particularly demanding project. Similarly, we may feel shoulder pain when we empty a couple buckets of balls at a driving range. Awkward positioning, as can occur when driving, increases the amount of force on the lumbar […]
10 Ways to Improve Your Daily Routine with Arthritis
Ordinary household activities can become areas of challenge and discomfort for those suffering from arthritis. You can make your life easier, though, by modifying various day-to-day tasks, says Scott Burg, D.O., of the Cleveland Clinic. Here are recommendations he provided in June to simplify what you do in various rooms of your home. Pain management in […]
How to Tell if You Are Suffering From a Concussion or Neck Pain
It is common for an athlete participating in a contact sport such as football to be misdiagnosed when they experience a head injury. University at Buffalo [sic] researchers released their findings that symptoms are incredibly similar between a concussion, neck damage (cervical injury), and injury to equilibrium mechanisms (vestibular injury). The study, as reported by […]
Why Spinal Pain Often Continues Post-Surgery
A medical research report on back pain released in April suggests why radiating neuropathy can continue following surgeries considered to be clinically “successful.” Pain that continues after operations has been a source of medical confusion for centuries. A landmark study with fundamental ramifications for back surgeons and pain management practices revealed that neurons are modified […]
Ease Arthritis Pain & Inflammation with these Simple Foods
Every patient wants to alleviate the pain of osteoarthritis (OA) as safely and naturally as possible. A few simple changes in the area of diet and nutrition can gradually provide comfort to irritated joints. The reason that revising food intake fights arthritis is that certain foods contain inflammatory compounds while other ones contain anti-inflammatory compounds. […]
Ways to Protect your Knees at Any Age
As reported by the Cleveland Clinic in August, the number one condition associated with knee pain can arise at any point in adult life, your 30s or your 70s. That condition is osteoarthritis, which encompasses over 100 kinds of arthritis. Osteoarthritis and arthritis pain Dr. Robert Nickodem, Jr., compares osteoarthritis to a hinge that has […]
Backpacks & Back-to-School Pain
When we consider back pain in kids, the most obvious culprit is the backpack. Just how much impact does a backpack have on a child’s body? Analysis from the Consumer Product Safety Commission demonstrates that when a child hauls a backpack weighing 12 pounds back and forth to school and raises it 10 times daily, […]
NFL Athletes Who Use Chiropractic Services
In professional sports, huge rewards – payouts, championships, and stardom – depend in part on the ability to prevent and quickly recover from injuries. One of the most common treatment methods for NFL athletes is chiropractic care. According to the results of a 2002 survey published in the Journal of Manipulative Physiological Therapy, 77% of […]
Injury Prevention for Young Athletes
Major sporting events such as the Olympics are most obviously physical competitions, but they also serve as inspiration for children and teens to become more active. Athletics can help build self-esteem and avoid a wide range of diseases, including cancer, diabetes, and obesity. Although taking part in sports has numerous benefits, youth injuries are common […]