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If you have tennis elbow and shockwave therapy has been suggested as a treatment, you may want to discuss this further with your doctor before agreeing.
According to a study, which was published in the Journal of Rheumatology, there has been no direct evidence that shockwave therapy does any good to relieve the pain of tennis [...]
Please forgive the pat on the back but it’s exciting for me. Help My Hurt and Autism Vox, another b5media Health & Wellness blog, are both listed as two of Top 100 Pediatric Health Blogs over at Nursing Assistant Central.
I was a bit surprised because I consider Womb Within more about kids, never really [...]
If you have osteoarthritis and haven’t been getting any relief from various treatments, it may be because many don’t work.
According to an analysis of 21 national guidelines, 60 literature reviews and 300 current randomized clinical trials done on various treatments for osteoarthritis, many don’t work and some may be dangerous. Some medications, called anti-rheumatic [...]
Kidney stones have often been described as the only pain a man can feel that would come close to delivering a baby. Kidney stones are incredibly painful and can often - but not always - be prevented.
Sadly, what used to be almost exclusively an adult problem is now affecting more children now. It was [...]
Organ donation is a very important topic that I’m passionate about. We’re veering off a bit from the purpose of this site, but every once in a while, that’s important.
I was a teen when I first learned of organ donations and I signed up right away. I’ve had signed cards and stickers ever since. When [...]
If someone you love is living with chronic pain, they may end up needing help or care from others if the pain becomes too debilitating. While it may seem natural for you to step and offer to help, there are some things that you should take into consideration before committing yourself. This is important for [...]
The extremely peppy dancer from Dancing with the Stars, Julianne Hough, has discovered the source of her stomach pains. She has endometriosis. I’ve discussed endometriosis here a few times. This link explains what it is and one of my Company’s calling features, Company’s calling - the road to a diagnosis for endometriosis, is about the [...]
In September, I wrote about a drug in development, pegloticase, that was showing promise for treating painful gout (New drug being studied for painful gout). Now, a presentation at the annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology has confirmed this promise.
Pegloticase - brand name Puricase - was given to 212 patients, mostly men [...]
If you’re a smoker and you have rheumatoid arthritis (RA), quitting will not only help your lungs, you’ll likely see an improvement in your arthritis pain.
Researchers looked at a group of almost 1500 people who smoked and who had RA. The researchers wanted to see the effect of smoking and on the symptoms of [...]
If you have lupus and want to get pregnant, there is hope that you can have a healthy pregnancy. I wrote about this in August (Do you have lupus? Do you want to be pregnant?). Now, thanks to research at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, patients with lupus have had successful pregnancies [...]
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