Whether you have suffered a leg injury or have an underlying medical condition causing leg pain, it can significantly affect your quality of life. It can disrupt your ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities, and the pain can even be debilitating. The treatment for your leg pain will depend upon its cause and location. Getting the right treatment for your leg pain can ensure a successful recovery and can get you back out doing the things you enjoy, with much less pain, in no ... [Read More]
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What Can Cause Lower Back Pain in Women?
Lower back pain can be caused by abnormalities in the soft tissues, nerves, discs, or vertebrae or the lumbar spine. In women, lower back pain can also result from factors such as pregnancy and birth which can put added stress on the spine. Here are some common causes of back pain in women. Strains Soft tissue, including the muscles, tendons, and ligaments, can become strained from poor posture, over exertion, lifting, physical stress, general wear and tear, and injury. Soft tissue injuries ... [Read More]
Treatment for Osteoporosis
Given the critical role of healthy bones in allowing us to move about, pain-free, a bone disease such as osteoporosis can be very debilitating. Decreased bone strength can lead to painful and dangerous fractures. In fact, most people are unaware they have osteoporosis until they suffer a broken bone, such as a fragility fracture in the hip or a compression fracture in the spine. After a fracture caused by osteoporosis is appropriately treated, ongoing care will be necessary in order to resume ... [Read More]
Sciatica Pain, Causes and Treatments
Although it often gets lumped in with back pain, sciatica is different because the pain originates in the sciatic nerves rather than the spinal cord. The sciatica nerve branches out towards either side of the lower back, then run down each buttock, the back of the legs and continues under the feet all the way to the toes. Symptoms Symptoms of sciatica include the following sensations in the back or legs: a dull aching pain, numbness, tingling, pins and needles, sense of an electrical charge ... [Read More]
5 Common Myths of Pain Management
Pain management can involve simple or complex interventions, depending on the cause of the pain, symptom intensity, patient health history, and other factors. Pain management does not always mean taking medicine or undergoing surgery. Many people can successfully manage their symptoms through lifestyle changes, noninvasive therapies like massage, or minimally invasive approaches like steroid injections and nerve blocks. Putting off seeing a doctor doesn’t help matters. It may just prolong ... [Read More]
