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Pain Relief Patches and Gels

By on Wednesday, December 26th, 2012 | 2 Comments

The vari­ety of pain gels and patches can be bewil­der­ing. Here are the six main types.

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Goldilocks and Your Knee Cartilage

By on Wednesday, December 12th, 2012 | 2 Comments

Exer­cise is needed to main­tain the health of the car­ti­lage of your knee. But can too much exer­cise backfire?

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How a Foot Adjustment Helps Your Brain Work Better

By on Tuesday, May 1st, 2012 | 1 Comment

A sim­ple adjust­ment can help your foot recover from an injury. But the effects of an adjust­ment go beyond that — cor­rect­ing imbal­ances of the joints of the feet can improve the way your brain con­trols pos­ture and movement.

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Sacroiliac Joint Injury and Piriformis Pain

By on Sunday, April 15th, 2012 | No Comments

The sacroil­iac joint and the mus­cles that sup­port it are com­mon sources of low back and but­tock pain. Dis­cover how to min­i­mize shear stress in the sacroil­iac joint and avoid pain and injury.

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Simple Carpal Tunnel Exam – Just Answer Three Questions

By on Friday, March 2nd, 2012 | No Comments

Weak­ness, tin­gling and pain in the fin­gers? You may have carpal tun­nel syn­drome. There’s an easy way to fig­ure out your diagnosis.

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The First Step in Diagnosing Knee Pain

By on Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 | No Comments

Dis­cover the impor­tant diag­nos­tic fac­tors that help you doc­tor diag­nose the cause of your knee pain.

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Secret of a Good Chiropractic Adjustment

By on Thursday, September 1st, 2011 | 1 Comment

What’s the key to an effec­tive chi­ro­prac­tic adjust­ment? Restor­ing nor­mal joint play to the joints of the spine.…

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Guest Post: Chronic Knee Pain after Knee Joint Replacement

By on Thursday, May 12th, 2011 | No Comments

Total knee replace­ment surgery has helped many alle­vi­ate pain and regain the abil­ity to walk with ease. But the results aren’t per­fect — many patients have per­sis­tent pain after surgery. This guest arti­cle by a New Zealand occu­pa­tional ther­a­pist and psy­chother­a­pist dis­cusses some of the intri­ca­cies of per­sist­ing pain.

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Rebuilding Cartilage Health: One More Rationale for Chiropractic Adjustments

By on Tuesday, April 19th, 2011 | No Comments

Car­ti­lage is an exam­ple of a bod­ily tis­sue that’s been honed to a high degree of per­fec­tion over our mil­lion plus years of evo­lu­tion­ary devel­op­ment. (Quick anatomy refresher course:  car­ti­lage cov­ers the ends of bones where they meet to form a joint.) Here’s one exam­ple of its design genius:  The fric­tion between two car­ti­lage sur­faces is […]

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Hip or Knee Replacement? Not So Fast…

By on Saturday, November 6th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Hip and knee replace­ments have become two of the most com­mon ortho­pe­dic surg­eries. They’re prac­ti­cally a rite of pas­sage in the 50–60-70 year old set. Do they make sense? Are there alternatives?

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