We live in a world where our lives exist within our devices. Contacts, Social Media, Calendars, even driving directions. We depend on the information available at our fingertips. Our lives move faster and more efficiently because of them, but what are they doing to our posture and the health of our spines? It has become the socially acceptable norm to bring your phone...
Whiplash is one of the most common injuries in automobile crashes. It occurs upon impact where the body and the car suddenly stop or are pushed in an opposing direction which causes a rapid acceleration of the head and neck to be propelled forward and then back within an instant. Not only can the soft tissue in the neck be damaged, the bones may potentially sustain injury as...
If you experience a deep bone ache in the joints that are warm to the touch accompanied by scaly red patches of skin that may even have a slightly sliver tint to them, you may be dealing with psoriatic arthritis. Psoriatic arthritis, which is a chronic form of arthritis, results from a malfunctioning immune system in an auto immune reaction (where the body mistakenly attacks...
Millions of people in the United States suffer from chronic pain. Sometimes chronic pain is the result of an old injury that healed, but the nerves are still sending pain impulses to the brain. This can even be the result of a long-healed infection or surgery. On the other hand, some chronic pain has no apparent cause, which can be endlessly frustrating for both the...
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