Stiffness, soreness, and difficulty moving your neck is generally accompanied by neck pain, shoulder pain, and headache. It makes it hard to move, concentrate or focus. In extreme cases the neck may be stuck or unable to turn, causing the person to need to rotate their entire body rather than simply turn their head. Sometimes [...]
Prescription drugs only cover the symptoms allowing you temporary relief. Pain medication is very often prescribed to patients who suffer from Sciatica issues. According to the British Medical Journal, there may be little point. Researchers went over the findings in 23 studies which compared the targeted medication to sugar pill placebos and the medication was [...]
If you have damaged your shoulder in the rotator cuff area which is a grouping of 4 muscles and tendons which help to stabilize the shoulder itself, through sports, weight lifting, or other over use, your doctor may be recommending surgery as the correction. The question becomes should you get a second opinion and are [...]
Nothing can spoil your day like heading off to work only to get hurt. If an injury happens while you are on the job it is vital that you go to human resources or your supervisor and report it right away. The injury could get worse or be more difficult to prove over time. A [...]
You wake up and go about your normal routine. You may even drink a cup of coffee in hopes of clearing the cobwebs from your brain. You sit down at your desk or get your self set up at your job and have every intention of focusing, having a great productive day, and making it [...]
Whether you just started working out and your legs are sore, you sit all day for work, or just by way of life, in general, our muscles get tighter than they should be and leave us feeling uncomfortable and stiff. That stiffness and rigidity lend itself to a tightening up and down that side of [...]
This skewed view of our own perception used to be reserved for adults and teenagers but thanks to media, beauty pageants and society, in general, it is striking girls even as young as elementary school. Body Dysmorphic disorder does not discriminate between male and female though it is predominately thought of as a woman’s issue. [...]
Believe it or not, its not injury or illness that are the main source of pain. It is inflammation. Inflammation happens when white blood cells are released into the blood in order to try and protect your tissues from foreign matter. Some of the chemicals (hormones bradykinin and histamine) in the white blood cells can [...]
Happiness does not come in a pill. These days this is a very controversial statement. Doctors have attempted to prescribe happiness and it is failing miserably. We live in a society inundated with media and social messages that if something is wrong in your life – take a pill. If you aren’t happy – take [...]
Feeling bad can take a toll on how you view and feel about yourself. If you are sick chances are you aren't as active as you once were. That can lead to weight gain or loss as well as loss in tone of muscle. Along with that comes lack of energy, motivation, and ability to [...]