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Fitness

Simple Snake Stretch

Imagine yourself tracing an “S” or moving as a snake as you perform this simple stretching exercise in bed before rising.

1-minute listen or read

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Physiotherapy

Ankylosing Spondylitis Onset

If you suffer from recur­ring acute back pain, you might have a form of inflam­ma­tory arthritis that limits your mobility.

1-minute listen or read

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Orthopedics

Candidate For Hip Replacement

If hip pain inter­feres with sitt­ing, stand­ing, walk­ing, driv­ing, work­ing, or shop­ping, you may be a candidate for hip replacement.

3-minute listen or read

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Orthopedics

Types of Hand Pain

Aches and pains come with aging. Most doctors expect you to manage a reasonable thresh­old of pain. But there is treat­ment for arthritis.

6-minute listen or read

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Fitness

Alternatives to Knee Replacement

It is tempting to beg a doctor to re­move aching by any means pos­sible. Any dis­com­fort felt prior to surgery is multiplied during rehabilitation.

3-minute listen or read

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Oncology

Vertical Disc Herniation Pain

Historically considered clinically insig­ni­fi­cant, Schmorl’s nodes can be an active symptom or cause of pain in some patients.

4-minute listen or read

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Physiotherapy

Is Prolotherapy a Panacea for Pain?

Should a decades-old health procedure with 90% success rate be a top recom­mendation for chronic pain? See why some claim it is a medicinal cure-all and learn about its limitations.

10-minute listen or read

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Orthopedics

Are You a Candidate For Vertebroplasty or Kyphoplasty?

For vertebral compression fractures, an alternative to fusion is an outpatient health treatment that potentially increases back support and reduces pain in minutes.

3-minute listen or read

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Physiotherapy

Pros and Cons of Cortisone Injections

People who are not ill respond differently to the mention of medication side effects than those who are patients. Take cortisone, for example.

3-minute listen or read

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Chiropractor

Don’t Suffer Through Back Pain

Low back pain health remedies used to totter between popping anti-inflammatory drugs through­out the day and surgical vertebral fusion with bolts and plates.

2-minute listen or read

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