Walking Reduces Lower Back Pain

Walking Reduces Lower Back Pain

    This Back was Made for Walkin’: A Guide to How Walking Reduces Lower Back Pain If forced to make a list of things to avoid, death, public speaking, and pain would most likely be the top 3. The low back of anyone with a job that requires them to stand...
Signs You May Have a Stress Fracture

Signs You May Have a Stress Fracture

What is a Stress Fracture? A stress fracture can refer to small cracks or bruising that develops on a bone, mostly commonly due to overuse of repeated activity. These injuries are incredibly common with over 200,000 new patient cases annually occurring in the United...
Vestibular Rehabilitation for Post-Concussion Dizziness

Vestibular Rehabilitation for Post-Concussion Dizziness

Vestibular Rehabilitation for Post-concussion Dizziness In 2011, Reidar Lystad and his colleagues at the time published an article that was titled, “Manual Therapy with and without Vestibular Rehabilitation for Cervicogenic Dizziness: A Systematic Review”. This...
Opioids Generally Ineffective for Back Pain

Opioids Generally Ineffective for Back Pain

    Lower back pain is the top cause of disability globally. As a common treatment for many varieties of pain, prescription drugs are often a go-to solution for an injured or chronically sore back. Patients receiving prescriptions for opioids and other pain...
Prevent Cartilage Damage With Exercise

Prevent Cartilage Damage With Exercise

If you suffer from osteoarthritis, you might be able to prevent cartilage damage through physical therapy and exercise. This was one of the findings of researchers at Queen Mary University of London that appeared in the journal “Osteoarthritis and...
How a Careful Re-alignment for Pinched Nerve Can Help

How a Careful Re-alignment for Pinched Nerve Can Help

Symptoms of a pinched nerve run the gamut from numbness in the limb affected by the nerve to excruciating pain in the extremity or along the spine. No matter how your body manifests the compressed nerve, sufferers need to know that the condition will probably not go...