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  • 12 Tips to Relieve Back Pain When Driving

    Your time in the driver s seat can cause your lower back pain to flare up. Steps you can take to reduce irritation and relieve pain include adjusting ...
    On : 02-Jun-2023
    - Source : healthline
  • Dowager s Hump What It Is and How To Get Rid of It

    The hump at the base of your neck may be caused by osteoporosis or poor posture
    On : 02-Jun-2023
    - Source : Cleveland Clinic healthessentials
  • Best Sleeping Positions for Pain

    Awkward sleeping positions can put stress and strain on your body as you re catching ZZZs, leading to pain when you should be rising and shining. But ...
    On : 02-Jun-2023
    - Source : Cleveland Clinic healthessentials
  • Want a stronger core Skip the situps

    Sit-ups once ruled as the way to tighter abs and a slimmer waistline. While "planks" were merely flooring. Now plank exercises, in which you assume a position and hold it, are the gold standard for working your core. While classic sit-ups and crunches have fallen out of favor.
    On : 02-Jun-2023
    - Source : Harvard Health Publishing
  • Improving bone health before spinal surgery

    As people age, bones lose some of their structure. Osteopenia and osteoporosis are both conditions in which bones become less dense and, therefore, can break more easily. These kinds of bone density issues are common among spinal surgery patients who are 50 and older. To avoid surgical complications...
    On : 02-Jun-2023
    - Source : Medical Xpress
  • New research sheds light on symptoms of understudied spine disease

    Prior studies suggest DISH affects up to a third of men over the age of 50. This non-inflammatory type of arthritis is characterized by the progressive calcification of spinal tissues that eventually leads to the fusion of the vertebrae within the spine. However, whether this calcification causes pa...
    On : 02-Jun-2023
    - Source : Medical Xpress
  • Your thoughts can harm your neck and back during lifting tasks

    The mental distress of cognitive dissonance encountering information that conflicts with how we act or what we believe can lead to added pressure on t...
    On : 02-Jun-2023
    - Source : Medical Xpress
  • Intraop liposomal bupivacaine found to be beneficial after spinal fusion in scoliosis

    For adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) patients undergoing posterior spinal fusion (PSF), intraoperative liposomal bupivacaine (LB) infiltration is associated with lower total opioid consumption and shorter length of stay (LOS), according to a study published online May 1 in Spine.
    On : 02-Jun-2023
    - Source : Medical Xpress
  • Hormone therapy increases lumbar spine bone mineral density protects against bone loss

    As the population continues to age, there is greater focus on bone health and minimizing fractures to maintain mobility. A new study suggests that various types of hormone therapies not only increase lumbar spine bone mineral density (BMD) in postmenopausal women but also protect against bone loss, ...
    On : 02-Jun-2023
    - Source : Medical Xpress
  • Disconachip technology promises new strides in back pain research

    There's been no real progress in efforts to reverse intervertebral disc degeneration or to engineer replacement tissue, but now biomedical engineers at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) have unveiled what they call an intervertebral disc-on-a-chip, a "precision engineered too...
    On : 02-Jun-2023
    - Source : Medical Xpress