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  • TENS Not Effective For Back Pain, Good For Diabetics
    Deborah Mitchell
    Dec 30th, 2009

    People who have chronic low back pain—and you know who you are—should not count on getting relief from TENS, or transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation. This popular non-drug treatment for pain is not effective for this condition, says the American Academy of Neurology, but it can be helpful for diabetics who have nerve pain.

  • Study Suggests Texting May Be Pain in Neck
    Ramona Bates MD
    Nov 13th, 2009

    Texting has become a major form of communication. It is a nice way to update friends, family, and colleagues – running late, meeting delayed, etc. However, the prevalence of texting has been shown by a new study to increase the risk of neck or shoulder pain.

  • Back Pain Linked To Everyday Activites
    Armen Hareyan
    Nov 4th, 2009

    While that occasional back pain may go away after some rest and pain medication, many back pain sufferers are not aware that everyday activities - from wearing high heels to long work hours - can repeatedly strain the spine may lead to more serious consequences later.

  • Lower Back Pain Helped by Yoga
    Ramona Bates MD
    Sep 6th, 2009

    Lower back pain is estimated to affect 8 in 10 people at some point during their lives. It is one of our society's most common medical problem. Back pain becomes more common with age. Often the first attack happens between 30 to 40 years of age.

  • Sciatica Symptoms And Treatment
    Ruzanna Harutyunyan
    Aug 27th, 2009

    If you develop a pain that starts in your lower back or buttock and radiates down your leg, your problem may be sciatica. Sciatica is also known as nerve root entrapment or irritation, or lumbar radiculopathy syndrome.

  • Sophisticated Imaging Helps With Back Surgery Pain
    Ruzanna Harutyunyan
    Aug 15th, 2009

    People with recurrent back pain after spine surgery have new hope for relief thanks in part to sophisticated imaging at Beaumont Hospitals that lets doctors "see" inside the body more clearly.

  • Backpacks, Back to School, Back Pain
    Deborah Mitchell
    Aug 9th, 2009

    Just how heavy should that backpack be when your child goes back to school? A recent study from The Pennsylvania State University says the load limit should be 10 percent of body mass. For all you math majors, that’s 10 pounds for a 100-pound child. Beyond that, your child’s backpack could be packing a whopping dose of back, neck, and shoulder pain.

  • Vertebroplasty for Pain of Compression Fractures Over-rated
    Ramona Bates MD
    Aug 6th, 2009

    Compression fractures are painful. It is estimated that 750,000 people in the United States suffer from these fractures each year. Current treatment has included medical therapy (bracing, analgesics, and physical therapy) and increasingly the surgical procedure vertebroplasty.

  • Blue M&M Food Dye May Prevent Spinal Cord Injury
    Ramona Bates MD
    Jul 28th, 2009

    If you don’t have a favorite M&M color, may I suggest blue. Spinal cord researchers have found that the food dye that gives makes M&M’s blue may prevent the additional, more serious secondary damage that follows a traumatic spinal cord injury.

  • Back Pain Natural Solutions Discussed in Book
    Armen Hareyan
    Jul 1st, 2009

    Most of us experience back pain at some point our lives - in fact the Mayo Clinic reports that 80 percent of Americans will suffer from low back pain. No matter what form back pain comes in, it can hinder our productivity at work, cause sleeplessness, and make everyday activities - like exercising - next to impossible.

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