Category: Back Pain

The trick to keeping New Year’s resolutions is realizing that they are not wishes. You have to take action to make them work. Make this the year that — in spite of the pandemic, global warming, and inflation — you give your back the gift of improved health. If you are suffering  with ongoing back…

As if everyone didn’t have enough to worry about during the COVID-19 pandemic, health facilities like Long Island Spine Rehabilitation Medicine report seeing an uptick in back pain among their patients. If you are one of these patients, don’t suffer unnecessarily during this period of angst. Our highly skilled physiatrists are here to help. We…

The excitement and joy of the holidays are too often accompanied by stress: Where did we store the lights? Didn’t we give that same gift to Aunt Bessie last year? How could you forget to thaw the turkey? Though we expect the happy hustle and bustle to contain a few moments of anxiety or frustration,…

While almost every employee has, at some point, referred to her/his job as “a pain,” in many cases there is a very real link between one’s occupation and one’s painful musculoskeletal disorders. At Long Island Spine Rehabilitation Medicine, our doctors often diagnose and treat patients who are suffering neck, back, joint or muscular pain as…

Now that trick-or-treating is again a CDC-approved Halloween activity, here are some tips on how to keep it enjoyable and pain-free, even for participating grown-ups. At Long Island Spine Rehabilitation Medicine, we have been successfully treating patients with back and joint injuries nonsurgically for many years. Every autumn, some come to us after suffering Halloween-related…

In autumn, when the weather turns cooler and the leaves turn bright, allergens fill the air and sneezes abound. For those of us troubled by allergies to ragweed pollen, mold, and dust mites, or vulnerable to fall colds, the autumn months can be difficult to manage as well as beautiful. If you have ever experienced…

Car accidents need not be catastrophic crashes to result in back injuries. As a matter of fact, many fender benders cause drivers or passengers ongoing, chronic back pain. Whether or not you were taken to the emergency room after a collision, you may have pain and mobility issues that the physiatrists at Long Island Spine…

If you are spending too much of your day thinking and talking about your back pain, not to mention suffering with it, it may be time to drastically change your approach. This may be the moment to look to physicians who focus their attention not on surgery, but on pain management and restoration of function. …

Along with the joy and excitement of being pregnant comes a certain amount of discomfort. In a great many cases this includes back pain. While for some women back pain means an occasional twinge or cramp, for others it can become a chronic problem that persists even after the baby is born.  Because pregnant women…

Studies have shown that 80 percent of the population experiences back pain at some point. According to evolutionary biologists, the problem began over 4 million years ago when primates became bipedal, using only two of their four limbs for locomotion. This development put increased stress on the spine and may be blamed for many of…