The world of medicine is ever-changing with numerous advances occurring on a daily basis.  Preventive care is being focused on now more than ever in hopes of preventing diseases and the costly health problems they may cause in the long run.  Medica...

THE IMPACT ON SOCIETY It is estimated that about 80 percent of people around the world suffer from neck and back pain at some point of their lives. Neck and back pain can be due to lifestyle related poor posture, degenerative spine changes, muscular ...

With a worldwide aging demographic patterns, it is a well-known phenomenon that many people around the world are suffering from the problem of knee pain and arthritis in knee. Knee pain due to degenerative osteoarthritis, also known as “wear and...

Slip Disc/Herniated Disk: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment What is a slipped disc? The spinal cord is made up of vertebrae. Vertebrae are serious of bones stacked up together in a spinal cord with the cervical spine consisting of 7 bones, the thoracic...

Adolescent Scoliosis is a structural three dimensional curvature (C or S shaped) of the spine that occurs at or near the onset of puberty for which no cause has officially been proven. Studies have been done for different probable causes (genetic, br...

Introduction Pain located in the neck is a common medical condition. Neck pain can come from any problem in the neck, such as: * degeneration ( also known as spondylosis), * neck strain, * whiplash, injury (car accident or a fall) * herniated disc (a...

Hard truths for patients with diabetes: sweetened drinks are not the only things to avoid! In diabetes, the blood sugar goes much higher than normal, and that causes damage to their kidneys, nerves, heart and brain. Most people understand that if one...

Introduction A migraine is a specific type of headache. Classic migraines usually begin in childhood and get better or worse with age. They are classified according to the symptoms they produce. Two common types of migraines include migraine with aur...

Introduction Trigger finger is known medically as stenosing tenosynovitis. One of your fingers or your thumb gets stuck in a bent position, then straightens with a snapping motion. Trigger finger is not a dangerous condition, but can become quite pai...