While advertisers deluge us with messages about how to keep ourselves young, pain-free and active, aging brings about unavoidable changes to all parts of the body, from skin and hair to bones and muscles. Though we try to pinpoint a date when aging begins, or at least when it becomes troublesome (50? 65? 70? 75?),…
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Are You Coming Out of Quarantine in Pain?
In this unprecedented time of carefully re-entering a world of face masks and social distancing after months of sheltering in place, many of us are feeling a bit like bears after hibernation, some of us eager to get going, others tired from too much resting. The world is different than it was and some of…
Continue reading…What Do You Really Know About Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?
If I work on my computer most of the day, how likely am I to develop carpal tunnel syndrome? Most people are familiar with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). Either we have experienced the pain and inconvenience of this condition or we know someone who has. Anytime someone spends a lot of time at a computer…
Continue reading…What Does Knee Pain Indicate?
Is knee pain always a sign of arthritis? If you are currently not in a coma or on an extended retreat with the main focus being to avoid contact with the rest of the world, you are constantly exposed to various forms of the media’s 24-hour assault of information, most of which seems to revolve…
Continue reading…Treatment Options for Frozen Shoulder
How is a frozen shoulder possible and what can be done to treat it? “Frozen” only seems like a strange term for medical professionals to use to describe a physical condition if you think of it in relation to temperature and to being cold. Definition number 2 in the Merriam Webster dictionary describes a state…
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