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Fibromyalgia: Symptoms, Causes, Pain Management

December 1st, 2016 (No Comments)

Do You Have Fibromyalgia? Learn About Your Pain Management Options Do you have chronic muscle pain, especially abdominal and back pain? What about overwhelming fatigue? Numbness or tingling in your extremities? Stiffness? Insomnia? Headaches? Anxiety? Do these symptoms constantly shift and come and go? As much as all of that might seem unrelated and you […]

7 Negative Effects of Poor Posture

November 14th, 2016 (No Comments)

Poor posture is more than just a pain in the neck. Poor posture can affect the body in a number of odd and unexpected ways. Other than the well-known cases of backaches and the serious unnatural spinal curvature, here are 7 surprising negative effects that poor posture can cause. Chronic Headaches Poor posture causes muscle […]

What Different Kinds of Back Pain Are There?

October 26th, 2016 (No Comments)

Back pain seems like it should be a fairly simple concept—your back hurts, you want it to not hurt, you go to a professional where they fix you up and send you on your way. Except, like with most things in life, and especially with your health, back pain rarely has a one-size-fits-all solution that […]

What Are the Benefits of Acupuncture?

October 3rd, 2016 (No Comments)

The image is probably familiar to you, something you may have seen in any number of comedy bits over the years—an apprehensive person lies down on their stomach and an acupuncturist proceeds to stick them with needles, producing comedic yelps in the hapless victim. And yet, while this remains a common trope in popular media, […]

Do I Have Sciatica?

September 20th, 2016 (No Comments)

Between the ages of 30 and 50 years old we spend most of our time working. It’s no coincidence that these are the years we are most likely to develop back pain and conditions like sciatica. Whether we are on our feet 12 hours a day or we spend that time sitting in a chair, […]