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Beating Spasms and Back Pain

Beating Spasms and Back Pain

| May 14, 2013

There are more days lost in the workforce with back pain than any other ailment, including the flu. Back pain can be caused by the simplest movement like tying your shoelace or even sneezing. When the muscles in your back go into spasm, you often cannot move for a few minutes. Then we are inclined [...]

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Top 7 Ways to Prevent Back Pain By Strengthening Your Spine

Top 7 Ways to Prevent Back Pain By Strengthening Your Spine

| May 7, 2013

Slouching may be fashionable for some red carpet regulars, but it’s one of several reasons why about 80% of us will have spinal problems in our lifetime. And yet, most of us can cure or even avoid back pain and surgery by taking a few daily preventive steps. Spinal problems can start as early as [...]

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Spinal Manipulative Therapy

Spinal Manipulative Therapy

| April 30, 2013

Lower back pain can be caused by a plethora of reasons, ranging from injury to aging and, in some cases, it can be debilitating, rendering a patient unable to work regularly or at all. But for some patients, finding a form of spinal manipulation, which is sometimes referred to as spinal manipulative therapy, that works [...]

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Is There A Link Between Depression and Back Pain?

Is There A Link Between Depression and Back Pain?

| April 23, 2013

A researcher with the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research (WAIMR) has found that depression and back pain are part of a vicious cycle which reinforce each other. Professor Markus Melloh said that it has been known for some years that people with depressive symptoms are more likely to develop and maintain pain in the [...]

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