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Susan Watiker, one of the bloggers for b5media’s newest health and wellness blog, Grounded Fitness, agreed to write a guest post for us.
There are a couple of really good reasons I decided to get into yoga, and chronic lower and upper back pain were right at the top of the list.
Let’s start with issues of […]
You know that machine you’re sitting at right now to read this? It may be hazardous to your back.
According to this article, How computers have caused the number of Britons with backache to DOUBLE in a decade, the computer has caused back pain to double over the past decade. Computers are also blamed in […]
Does this sound familiar?
Scene 1: You’re sitting at your desk, working hard. You’re absorbed in your work so you lose track of time. As usual, your back has started to hurt.
Scene 2: You decided to sit down at your computer to check some email and maybe do some surfing. Before you know it, you’ve been […]
Earlier, I had a post on how smokers had more back pain than non-smokers (Smokers have more back pain) and this morning, I found this article: Study Shows That Pain Causes Increased Desire To Smoke Cigarettes.
According to the article, “In a recent study published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Moffitt researchers found for the […]
It’s that time of the month again - blog carnival time. I received some wonderful posts so I hope that you find them as interesting as I did.
If you would like to participate in a future blog carnival, just check out the information the on side bar and it will tell you the date […]
You’re tired, you’re hurting - all you want to do is get a good night’s sleep. Problem is, sleep isn’t so easy to come by when you’re hurting. So, you get more tired - and then you hurt more. Can we say “vicious cycle?” This is something that most people living with chronic pain experience […]
It isn’t a given that you’ll have back pain if you’re pregnant, but many women do. The nature of pregnancy throws your whole body out of balance, leaving your back vulnerable to trauma or just pain from the weight of carrying a baby (or babies!).
While sometimes the back pain is unavoidable, there are some things […]
People who experience chronic pain most often want to avoid using any type of medication to manage it or eliminate it completely. Also, for some injuries, medication isn’t effective.
For some back injuries, the chronic pain may be lasting for a while before surgery is proposed, because surgery is a last-ditch effort to control the pain. […]
When we have back pain, sometimes we don’t think of the simpler things to help relieve it. Forbes has an interesting article, Back pain: what works, that describes the age-old and not so age-old, but simpler treatments that may work for some back pain.
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Lower back pain is one of the leading causes of chronic pain in the Western world. It’s also among the most difficult to treat because of the many possible causes.
Now, a leading pain specialist, Dr. Norman Marcus, is saying that treatment approaches are targeting the wrong areas for managing back pain. Dr. Marcus says that […]
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