Sadie is just like most girls, meaning she loves to shop! But pain in her neck and upper back really started to affect her and her love of shopping. Sadie also began experiencing pain down her left arm and it went all the way down to her fingers. This pain also caused constant numbness of [...]
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Jeff is in his 70’s and still runs his own company while working full time. But over the past year he started to feel aching pains in his lower back and weakness in his legs. This pain was worse while he was bending and lifting, which is something he has to do on a daily [...]
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Spinal Fusions Face an Uncertain Future Written by Laura Miller| January 19, 2011 In December, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina announced beginning Jan. 1, the company would no longer cover lumbar fusions for patients with degenerative disc disease. This announcement hit a nerve with many spine surgeons who have been performing successful lumbar [...]
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Unusual watchdog: Carragee spurs review of misleading studies on Medtronic’s spinal fusion product BY RUTHANN RICHTER Eugene Carragee and colleagues have discovered that a product widely used in spine fusion surgery causes serious side effects. The findings raise questions about why these harms had not been mentioned in earlier studies, whose authors had received money [...]
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Carl lives his life dreaming about camping. If he could camp every day of his life he would! He is also the leader of a community Boy Scout troop, so to keep up with the boys he has to be in really good shape. For a while Carl was feeling perfect, but because of all [...]
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Whiplash Injuries – Serious Spinal Trauma by American Chiropractic Association What is Whiplash? Whiplash is a generic term applied to certain injuries of the neck. Injuries that occur when the neck is suddenly and/or violently jolted in one direction and then another, creating a whip-like movement. Whiplash is most commonly seen in people involved in motor [...]
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Stop Dreaming About Quality Sleep and Do Something! by The American Chiropractic Association An old Chinese proverb states, “Only when one cannot sleep does one know how long the night is.” Anyone who’s ever experienced an occasional bout with insomnia—and that’s most of us—can relate to this all too well. In fact, surveys have shown that [...]
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Chiropractic: Conservative Care of Neck Pain, Injury by American Chiropractic Association Your neck, also called the cervical spine, begins at the base of the skull and contains seven small vertebrae. Incredibly, the cervical spine supports the full weight of your head, which is on average about 12 pounds. While the cervical spine can move your head [...]
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Jenny loves to bake. She would spend hours and hours baking in the kitchen. She has an absolutely scrumptious recipe for chocolate chip cookies! But her reoccurring back pain of 40 years kept her from enjoying her hobby. She had excruciating lower back pain and pain in her left thigh. If Jenny was standing for [...]
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