Your spine, or backbone, protects your spinal cord and allows you to stand and bend. Spinal stenosis causes narrowing in your spine. The narrowing can occur at the center of your spine, in the canals branching off your spine and/or between the vertebrae, the bones of the spine. The narrowing puts pressure on your nerves [...]
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Drink 8-10 glasses of water a day. If the body is dehydrated this raises your blood pressure and water helps our arteries and flushes salt. Eat a fiber-rich diet: fresh vegetable, fruits and whole grain. Eliminate refined foods as much as possible. Make the effort to eat foods that are as close to their original [...]
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The FDA has recently announced an alert about the safety of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs). The following is a list of common products warned about. • AcipHex (rabeprazole sodium) • Dexilant (dexlansoprazole) • Nexium (esomeprazole magnesium) • Omeprazole (omeprazole) Over-the-Counter (OTC) • Prevacid (lansoprazole) and OTC Prevacid 24hr • Prilosec (omeprazole) and OTC • Protonix [...]
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Pain pills, antihistamines such Benadryl and many antidepressants and other mood altering drugs can affect the way our brain functions. It is reported that even statins can affect memory. Many people buy over-the-counter products from the drugstore and some of the products with regular use can impair thinking and cause loss of memory. Elderly people can [...]
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Prescription drugs according a former drug czar is the biggest and fastest-growing part of America’s drug problem. According to the CDC the misuse of prescription medication causing fatal overdoses has shown a drastic increase. It is a good thing gone awry and now is an unrecognized epidemic. And is the 10th leading cause of death [...]
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When you do something well, word travels fast and that is exactly how Joe heard about the Busch Chiropractic Center. Joe had definitely heard about Busch Chiropractic Pain Center, and even though he lived 2.5 hours away, he was willing to make the drive, if Dr. Busch thought he could help Joe. Joe had suffered [...]
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It is that time, when we need to be aware of snow shoveling injuries and medical emergencies. There was a study that was from 1990 – 2006 and the findings were that most injuries were as follows: Overworking your muscles, falling, and being hit with the shovel Muscle, ligament, tendon, and other soft tissue injuries [...]
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Sciatica or sciatic pain is symptom of a back problem, and it is not a diagnosis of the actual problem itself. Sciatic pain refers to pain along the length of the sciatic nerve, the largest nerve in the body. The sciatic nerve branches off your spine at the pelvis and travels down each leg. A [...]
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Steve was diagnosed with Degenerative Disc Disease (DDD), and the solution was to have surgery – a lumbar fusion. He was a middle-aged, active guy and way too young to be off work. Yet he was because he was almost disabled with severe low back and leg pain and numbness. He hadn’t been working for over two weeks. [...]
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Craig, always a very physical man who enjoyed sports and even yard work, had experienced low back, leg and knee pain off and on for 40 years. In the last two years, his pain level had gotten bad – between 6/10 to 8/10. Craig experienced pain every day. Any physical activity made his pain worse. [...]
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