Category: Pain control
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Physical pain can often be caused by a mechanical source, which is why pills don’t always work. Trigger points are painful sites inside our muscles or connective tissues. They behave like a burr caught in the moving parts of our body
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The Joy of Stress was started as an information piece for specific questions asked by my patients. In the course of a busy practice of family medicine and emergency care, I was asked by my patients to simplify the complicated steps to deal with their particular problems.
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Knee pains are becoming very common. Most of the orthopedic surgeons in professional football and hockey are specialists in the knee, leaving others to look after the rest of the bones in question.
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Many people are over-medicated, either from over the counter products or from prescription drugs, and many of their complaints could have been better handled with grandmother’s old fashioned herbal remedies.
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We have redesigned our ancestors’ active workplace to remove most movements as we sit all day at a desk. So the modern response to stress has gone from the “fight and flight” option to a not-so-energetic “sit and stare” response. and new research is indicating that even more is at stake with our modern inactivity.
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Talk about your pain-in-the-ankle! One of the more common complaints I see in my sports medicine practice is the ankle sprain.
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One of the more common stress relievers is exercise, and simple running leads the pack. In large part, running has become so popular because of several features
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One complaint that is becoming more common is the tennis elbow. More correctly, we should call it the “Non-Tennis Elbow”. Far more people sit at keyboards than swing racquets, and these are the ones we are seeing in epidemic proportions.
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While stress relief is only a jog or a bike ride away, it is good to prepare for the possibility of injuries. People who don’t often end up in sports clinics like mine.
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One of the more common complaints I see in my office is carpal tunnel syndrome. It is now becoming more common in office workers and students who type or text for protracted periods.