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A lot of people have their favorite pain killers. But if you like being able to breathe well, you might want to take a quick look in your medicine cabinet and see if any of your favorite pain killers happens to be acetaminophen.
Find out why acetaminophen’s side effects might make you gasp.
The most common myth you hear out in the world about knee osteoarthritis is that running and jogging is what does you in. “It’s all the shock,” doctors say. “It’s just too much wear and tear,” friends say. Did you know that this conventional wisdom is actually wrong?
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MRI’s are powerful diagnostic tools. You can see the insides of the body in great detail. But how reliable are they? One doctor gathered 31 pain-free professional baseball pitchers for a study to see what MRI’s would determine about the health of their shoulders. Find out whether the MRIs got on base, knocked it out of the park, or just plain fouled out.
Your posture says a lot about muscular balance. It is a visual representation of how well your muscles coordinate with each other. That’s useful information if you’re a paleolithic guy or gal running around on the plains, but it’s also useful information for job seekers and business people negotiating deals in conference rooms.
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With the amazing technological advances in the medical field, it can be hard to remember that not all advances give us what we actually want. In a previous post, I mentioned that medical imaging doesn’t tell you the cause of your back pain. Today, I want to tell [...]
MRIs, though used all the time to “pinpoint” the cause of back pain, has been scientifically shown to be a virtually useless diagnostic tool for people trying to nix the aches in their backs.
Back in December I started working with a young guy who had been diagnosed with a herniated disc. According to his doctor, chiropractor, and physical therapist, the herniated disc was impinging on nerves that ran into his leg, causing both lower back pain and aching in his legs.
I had severe back [...]
In today’s world, we do a lot of sitting. We sit down to eat. We sit in the car to get to work. We sit when we get to work. Then we sit back in the car so we can get back home to sit down to dinner. After that long day of sitting, we [...]
Imagine waking up in the morning, putting your foot down on the floor, and feeling like someone had replaced your carpet with a sheet of thumbacks (pointy-side up). That’s roughly what it’s like to have a real good bout of plantar fasciitis. It’s not pleasant, but what’s even less pleasant is the list of standard treatments for it.
You probably know someone who’s complained about tennis elbow in the past. And their doctor probably mentioned epicondylitis or tendinitis. And if you’ve been alive long enough to hear “-itis” a few times, you know that that suffix means there’s inflammation, and you should ice the heck out of it.
Guess what? Research shows that tennis elbow ISN’T about inflammation. In fact, the pain from repetitive motions isn’t from inflammation at all! Whether it’s typing, tennis, or track and field…
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