Tuesday, November 18, 2014

HAGUE’S BLOG


Sciatica is a term used to describe symptoms associated with the sciatic nerve as a result of nerve root compression, irritation and/or inflammation. The sciatic nerve is the largest and longest in the body running from the base of the spine down into the buttock region and down through both […]


One thing you can imagine was that pain increased the expression of lots of genes, and then the mother brought the pain back down to normal. That’s not what happened. The mother had her own effects that were both overlapping and different from that of ...



Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (blog)

Trainer reminds clients to keep exercising through life's ups and downs
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (blog)
Since then, Waldkirch has also discovered a cyst on her spine causes her to feel sciatica. It is painful. In July she gave up tennis and running, but she kept coming to Turk and Excel. She's been getting epidural injections, and she is scheduled to ...




Seattle Pain Relief Now Offering Three Different Types of Epidural Injections to Relieve Back Pain and Sciatica


Seattle Pain Relief is now offering three different types of epidural injections to relieve back pain and sciatica. The options provide excellent relief for the vast majority of patients suffering from the pain of pinched nerves and degenerative disc disease.



Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (blog)

Trainer reminds clients to keep exercising through life's ups and downs
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (blog)
Since then, Waldkirch has also discovered a cyst on her spine causes her to feel sciatica. It is painful. In July she gave up tennis and running, but she kept coming to Turk and Excel. She's been getting epidural injections, and she is scheduled to ...



Sciatica is a term used to describe symptoms associated with the sciatic nerve as a result of nerve root compression, irritation and/or inflammation. The sciatic nerve is the largest and longest in the body running from the base of the spine down into the buttock region and down through both legs.



IcyHot™ and NBA Champion Shaquille O'Neal Team Up to Relieve Chronic Back Pain with IcyHot SmartRelief™


CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Nov. 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- You do not have to be an NBA champion like Shaquille O'Neal to know how disruptive back pain is - if greeting the day with a stiff, aching back is all ...


These pain signals must be reinterpreted by the brain or they will continue to return pain signals back to the body. By intercepting these pain signals and sending non pain signals back to the brain using Calmare the effort to decrease the various forms of ...



Monday, November 17, 2014

Seattle Pain Relief Now Offering Three Different Types of Epidural Injections to Relieve Back Pain and Sciatica


Seattle Pain Relief is now offering three different types of epidural injections to relieve back pain and sciatica. The options provide excellent relief for the vast majority of patients suffering from the pain of pinched nerves and degenerative disc disease. (PRWeb November 17, 2014) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/seattle-pain-center/epiduralsteroidinjections ...


Seattle Pain Relief is now offering three different types of epidural injections to relieve back pain and sciatica. The options provide excellent relief for the vast majority of patients suffering from the pain of pinched nerves and degenerative disc disease.



Seattle Pain Relief Now Offering Three Different Types of Epidural Injections ...
Insurance News Net
Seattle Pain Relief is now offering three different types of epidural injections to relieve back pain and sciatica. The options provide excellent relief for the vast majority of patients suffering from the pain of pinched nerves and degenerative disc ...

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Seattle Pain Relief is now offering three different types of epidural injections to relieve back pain and sciatica. The options provide excellent relief for the vast majority of patients suffering from the pain of pinched nerves and degenerative disc disease.


Patients say the feds are playing god with their medical care, catching them in a crossfire between fighting prescription drug abuse and helping those in need.



Pelicans center Omer Asik 'questionable' for tonight's game vs. Portland with back pain


Portland, Ore-There is a possibility the New Orleans Pelicans could be without starting center Omer Asik tonight when the Pelicans begin their four-game Western Conference road trip against the Portland Trail Blazers. Asik, who is suffering with some lower ...


Laser Spine Institute, the leader in minimally invasive spine surgery, opened the doors today to its new facility in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. The Cleveland region contains more than one million people with neck and back pain, according to the National Institutes of Health, The Burden of Musculoskeletal Diseases in the United States.



MMA News

Anderson Silva on lower back pain: 'I thought I was going to be paralyzed'
MMA Fighting
"I thought I was going to be paralyzed." Silva was cleared to train again 10 days later, and his UFC 183 fight with Diaz is still on. The UFC legend doesn't feel any back pain anymore, but his leg still hurts. "I still feel pain in my leg, but I will ...
Anderson Silva On Recent Lower-Back Pain: "I Thought I Was Going To Be ...MMA News
Anderson Silva details recent hospitalization: 'I thought I was going to be ...Bloody Elbow

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Former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva was hospitalized on Nov. 3 with lower back pain after a jiu-jitsu session at X-Gym in Rio de Janeiro, and he thought for a moment his career would be over. "The Spider," who is training to get back in action on Jan. 31 against Nick Diaz after shattering his left leg in a rematch with Chris Weidman in 2013, was afraid he wouldn’t be able to walk ...



Avera Medical Minute AMcK: Spinal fusion to relieve back pain


Alan Barch works as a personal trainer, but this is his real job, a full-time dad. It's a job that slowly became painful due to pinched nerves in his back. "You know it wasn't lifting heavy weight or running it was things like everyday activities I take ...



NHL.com

Howe slowed after minor stroke, serious back pain
NHL.com
If we can't get rid of his back pain it's going to be extremely difficult rehabbing the way he was 10 days ago. "It's a continuing fight. We're just trying to give Dad the best chance to continue his road to recovery. … Hopefully get the epidural ...
Red Wings legend Gordie Howe takes turn for the worseMinneapolis Star Tribune
Hockey great Gordie Howe in declining healthUSA TODAY
NHL news and results, Nov. 16SFGate
Detroit Free Press -FOXSports.com -KSPR
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Sunday, November 16, 2014

Howe slowed after minor stroke, serious back pain


Howe slowed after minor stroke, serious back pain Gordie Howe is having more health issues after a minor stroke and back pain that has caused blood pressure issues Gordie Howe's health has taken a downturn because of a minor stroke and back pain that is ...


CRPS is classified as the most painful chronic disease on the McGill Pain Index. (For comparison, on this index chronic back pain is a 30; unprepared childbirth is a little under 40, and having a finger or toe amputated is a 40. CRPS is around 47.)


Matty’s back! Days after The Post exposed the military’s wrongful, 16-month-long separation of injured Army Spc. Brent Grommet and his war dog, Matty, the two were finally reunited on Friday....


MONDAY, Nov. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Spinal steroid injections -- the type involved in the current fungal meningitis outbreak in the United States -- provide only short-term relief for sciatica-related leg and back pain, according to a new analysis.



Steroid Shots for Sciatica: Benefits Only Brief, Analysis Finds


MONDAY, Nov. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Spinal steroid injections -- the type involved in the current fungal meningitis outbreak in the United States -- provide only short-term relief for sciatica-related leg and back pain, according to a new analysis.



Kane takes blame for lack of info on crash
Allentown Morning Call
A statement released by her office said the pain in her back and neck had intensified since the crash so a doctor recommended the physical therapy. "Today was the first day I was able to go," she said. Besides headaches, the crash caused sciatica with ...

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This is what participatory democracy looks like. Maybe it was the sciatica, but my left leg tingled. Scranton taxpayers facing yet another double-digit property tax hike should take note. Every resident of Northeast Pennsylvania should consider the ...



Saturday, November 15, 2014

Is the Most Popular Treatment For Lower Back Pain No More Effective Than a Placebo?


Low back pain is a condition so common that, intermittently, I suffer from it myself. It comes and goes for no apparent reason, lasting a few days at a time. Nearly 40 years ago I realized that, though I had liked to think of myself as nearly immune from ...


Back pain is the most common cause of job-related disability. As many as 41 percent of farmers report low back pain. These ailments don’t only impact older adults. They also take their toll on youths. Enjoy unlimited access to KearneyHub.com online ...


Intense pain that radiates down from the disc through the buttocks and down the leg to the foot is called sciatica. Intense pain below the knee is usually a sign of a herniated disc, since other back conditions don't usually cause pain below the knee.


Three bulging disks (a tear in one), stenosis of the nerve route and spondylolisthesis. I suffer from sciatica and after games I often can't sit in the car on the drive home, which has made for some interesting rides. Most nights I'm bothered by severe ...


If someone has pain when bending both forward and backward, thinning discs have probably thrown the back joints out of line, making them easy to strain. Thinning discs can also make the back less flexible and may pinch a nerve, causing sciatic leg pain ...



Friday, November 14, 2014

OMG, you're texting your way to back pain - CBS News



CBS News

OMG, you're texting your way to back pain
CBS News
Humans were designed to stand upright. And yet in this modern world, too many of us spend our days with our heads slumped over for a simple reason: we're staring at the tiny screen of a smartphone. People spend an average of 2 to 4 hours each day with ...

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Back Pain Exercises: 15 Moves For Lower Back Pain
Huffington Post Canada
Any type of injury or lower back pain may discourage you to hit the gym, but fitting in a few moves (even at home), will help you stretch your back and find relief. "Good posture in our everyday movements is the biggest thing people should focus on to ...




OMG, you're texting your way to back pain


Humans were designed to stand upright. And yet in this modern world, too many of us spend our days with our heads slumped over for a simple reason: we're staring at the tiny screen of a smartphone. People spend an average of 2 to 4 hours each day with ...


Whether it's a throbbing ache in your rear or your thigh, or a burning or tingling that runs down the back of your legs, sciatica is truly a pain in the butt. One of the most common causes: A tight piriformis, the small muscle that lies deep within your ...



Lakers G Nash addresses criticism over golf video
Contra Costa Times
The two-time MVP wrote in detail about his injury problems, describing three bulging disks and sciatica that sometimes prevents him from sitting in cars. "That's what you deserve for playing over 1,300 NBA games," Nash wrote. "By no means do I tell you ...

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Any type of injury or lower back pain may discourage you to hit the gym, but fitting in a few moves (even at home), will help you stretch your back and find relief. "Good posture in our everyday movements is the biggest thing people should focus on to avoid lower back pain," says FitFusion trainer Mark Moon . But before you pick up your foam roller or start stretching, Moon says talk to your ...


You know the feeling all too well. After sitting for a period of time, you go to get up and you feel a deep, boring, aching sensation in the front of your thigh that extends to your knee. Sometimes you can even feel pain on the inside of your knee or on ...



Fitness Expert: Lower-Back Pain - KCRG



Fitness Expert: Lower-Back Pain
KCRG
Aside from the common cold, low back pain is the next most common reason people seek medical advice. A few simple steps to improve your posture can drastically decrease pain into the low back and also prevent the pain from coming back as frequently.



“Today was the first day I was able to go,” she said. Besides headaches, the crash caused sciatica with pain that shoots down her leg. She expects her injuries are not permanent and will subside with time, she said. Ms. Kane said she continues to work ...



Crash victim Kane could be back to work Nov. 24
Citizens Voice
A statement released by her office said the pain in her back and neck had intensified since the crash so a doctor recommended the physical therapy. “Today was the first day I was able to go,” she said. Besides headaches, the crash caused sciatica with ...

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Scranton Times-Tribune

State attorney general takes blame for lack of info on crash
Scranton Times-Tribune
Besides headaches, the crash caused sciatica with pain that shoots down her leg. She expects her injuries are not permanent and will subside with time, she said. Ms. Kane said she continues to work from home, though she cannot use a computer.
Crash victim Kane could be back to work Nov. 24Citizens Voice

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Thursday, November 13, 2014

Howie Centre woman receives funding to retrofit her van


HOWIE CENTRE — Eleven weeks pregnant with her third child, Kimberley Lovett wasn't overly concerned when she didn't feel quite right one day in January 2012.


Argentina's Cristina Fernandez was recovering at the presidential residence Monday, a day after being discharged from a hospital where she was treated for a bacterial infection.


Low back pain is a common health problem, often resulting in visits to a health care provider for relief. Symptoms range from a dull, constant ache to a sudden sharp pain. Some patients are unable to stand straight, bend or twist due to the pain.


“Today was the first day I was able to go,” she said. Besides headaches, the crash caused sciatica with pain that shoots down her leg. She expects her injuries are not permanent and will subside with time, she said. Ms. Kane said she continues to work ...



Scranton Times-Tribune

State attorney general, hurt in crash, could be back to work Nov. 24
Scranton Times-Tribune
A statement released by her office said the pain in her back and neck had intensified since the crash so a doctor recommended the physical therapy. “Today was the first day I was able to go,” she said. Besides headaches, the crash caused sciatica with ...

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'Kingdom' recap: 'Please Refrain From Crying'


Christina is freed, Ryan visits his parents for the first time post-jail, and things take a shocking turn at the halfway house.


Vipul Sethi, a senior executive with a Gurgaon-based firm, has been experiencing pain in his back for the last two weeks. What started as a niggling sense of discomfort has grown into a condition where he finds it difficult to perform even basic everyday tasks.



Fit & Proper: Does your back act up often?
Business Standard
Vipul Sethi, a senior executive with a Gurgaon-based firm, has been experiencing pain in his back for the last two weeks. What started as a niggling sense of discomfort has grown into a condition where he finds it difficult to perform even basic ...



Getting relief for chronic back pain estimated to affect 80% of American adults at some point in their lives isnt as easy as showing up at a doctors office and saying your back hurts. In fact, patients should be prepared to answer as many questions as they ...


Vipul Sethi, a senior executive with a Gurgaon-based firm, has been experiencing pain in his back for the last two weeks. What started as a niggling sense of discomfort has grown into a condition where he finds it difficult to perform even basic everyday tasks.



Mesoblast's Phase 2 Trial Results In Chronic Low Back Pain Presented at North American Spine Society Annual Meeting


NEW YORK and MELBOURNE, Australia -- Mesoblast's Phase 2 trial results in degenerative disc disease were presented today at the North American Spine Society (NASS) Annual Meeting, the premier global conference ...


According to Dr. Kaliq Chang with Atlantic Spine Center, back conditions can be complex, so patients would benefit from being aware of the details of their symptoms and be ready to communicate them to practitioners. Getting relief for chronic back pain ...


If someone has pain when bending both forward and backward, thinning discs have probably thrown the back joints out of line, making them easy to strain. Thinning discs can also make the back less flexible and may pinch a nerve, causing sciatic leg pain ...


At one point, Joe gives his testimony about how he began using the company’s vitamins, Isotonix OPC-3, which are $69.95 on SHOP.com, and now “has no more” his sciatica (pain and weakness brought on by an injury to the sciatic nerve). This condition ...



Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Chronic pain a hurdle for many, especially women, seniors, obese


Chronic pain was also frequent among adults who reported depression, those with physical disabilities, and those who had been hospitalized one or more times in the previous year. Although neck and lower back pain are among the most common reasons adults ...



Nursing Times

Smoking could lead to chronic back pain
KGNS.tv
(NBC) - Smokers are three times more likely than non-smokers to develop chronic back pain, but a new study finds kicking the habit can help! Researchers at Northwestern University analyzed brain activity of smokers and non-smokers with back pain.
Smoking & Back PainWILX-TV

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Certain fashion trends can be harmful to your health
Roosevelt Torch
In some cases people can develop sciatica, a condition in which the person feels tingling, pain, weakness or numbness along the sciatic nerve, from the lower back and down the back of each leg. "I was surprised about the wallet thing because it's a wallet.



Treatments are offered for all types of conditions, both simple and complex. This includes back and neck pain, fibromyalgia, migraines, RSD, neuropathy, spinal stenosis, sciatica, degenerative arthritis and more. The potential treatments include anti ...