While most women are familiar with the abdominal cramps, PMS, and headaches that go along with their monthly cycle, not nearly as many are aware that the painful backache you suffer (sometimes before and/or after your monthly cycle) is not only a symptom of PMS but...
If you live to run and run to live, you might think that your running days are over if you’ve discovered that you have one or more herniated discs. Or you might be one of the many people who ask if they should run with sciatic nerve pain. Approximately 80 percent...
When it comes to the pain of carpal tunnel syndrome, most people only think about computers or typing as being the source of pain. While this is true in many cases, carpal tunnel can also develop from any repetitive motion, gripping, bending at the wrist, or...
Nothing quite compares with waking up one morning and discovering that, not only is your lower back killing you, you’ve got body aches. You feel the chills and you know that you are coming down with the flu or a fever. After checking your temperature, you find that...
We live better, richer lives than at any time in history. Even the great Kings of Egypt and ancient China did not have the luxuries that most of us consider commonplace today. We have machines and technology that makes life so easy, our ancestors would be jealous...
When you think about physical therapy or physical therapy modalities, what comes to mind? Torture chambers? People screaming in pain? Severely injured persons being worked over by a hulking, muscle bound figure? Don’t worry, you aren’t alone in those thoughts....
If you made a resolution to start eating healthier, making better health care decisions, and getting more exercise, you aren’t alone. Probably half of the residents of Wasilla have made similar decisions at the beginning of the year, and almost everyone has broken...
Everyday it seems as if we are flooded with “new” ways to stay healthy. Today it’s this and tomorrow it’s that and we’ve lost count of the actual number of diet books on the shelves nowadays. When we are overwhelmed with information, much of it contradictory, we...
