We hear a lot about forward head posture these days. We’re all bending forward and hunched over our desks as we type, and when we’re away from our desks we spend much of our time looking down at the phones in our hands. And we all have headaches.
Also known as adhesive capsulitis, frozen shoulder is a condition characterized by stiffness and pain in the shoulder joint. Typically a person with frozen shoulder will go through three stages:
The Freezing Stage — A pain (sometimes severe) d
You have an ache or a pain. Maybe it’s been nagging you for some time, or maybe it’s brand new. Maybe it’s the result of a stumble and fall, or maybe it’s come out of nowhere with no warning. Maybe it’s getting harder to live with, and it
Your shoulder is the most mobile joint in your body. Just think of all the things you do with it, all the things you reach for and pick up, and all the wide ranging up, down, forward, and back directions you can move your arm.
The trade-off for th
If you’re bothered by osteoarthritis, you might be concerned by the effects of exercise on your condition. With pain in your knee joints, for example, just the thought of the added stress from exercise could be enough to keep you on the couch. But
Pain is like a warning system that alerts our bodies to a problem. If we cut our finger on a knife or stick our hand on a hot stove, an electrical signal zips through our nervous system, firing up the pain processors in our brain. The pain we feel le
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We have a lot planned for the fu
The fight against cancer has some good news today, with a new report revealing that simple lifestyle changes are effective in preventing nearly half of all cancer-related deaths.
We already know that certain lifestyle indicators—such as cigarett
A rush of recent news headlines has suggested that weight gain is “contagious.” Based on a study of military families published in late January, these headlines are both true and somewhat misleading without a closer read.
The study, which exa
Concerns about dementia are on the rise as our population ages. How do we prevent it? How do we cure it? How do we accommodate people who have it?
We will likely be seeking answers to these questions for many years to come, and judging by a recent
