Do You Have Symptoms? What Are the Causes of Sciatica?
We’ve talked about all the things you do about the condition of sciatica, whose symptoms include weakness, numbness and often excruciating pain in the buttocks and down through the leg, typically on one side of the body. It follows the path of the sciatic nerve which originates in the lower ...
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Modern Jobs Trigger Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
The hand and the wrist are so often taken for granted that we tend to forget they are vulnerable to injury or ailment that may alter the course of lives at work and home. The wrist, of course, is a joint subject to the woes of arthritis, but we can ...
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Massage for Headaches: Migraine Attacks Up Close and Personal
Therapeutic massage often works in relieving migraine headaches, according to a legion of people who suffer from migraines, an often-debilitating condition that is much more than a bad headache. It is a painful attack which, from beginning to end, may stretch over a span of 72 hours, even more, based ...
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Science Backs Acupuncture for Headaches, Migraines
Acupuncture dates back some 3,000 years in China, which gets the credit for originating the treatment of the needles. Over the course of many centuries, the western world slowly but surely has come to accept the healing powers of acupuncture. An estimated 8 million Americans have been treated by acupuncture ...
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Physical Therapy: The Prescription for Overuse Injuries
The epidemic of overuse injuries in the wake of limitations imposed on us by a lengthy pandemic can bring a sudden end to aspirations of physical fitness, sending too many of us to physician care and prescriptions for physical therapy. People trying to get back in shape after a few ...
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Looking Closer at Sciatica Symptoms and Relieving Sciatica Pain
Whenever we address the issue of relieving sciatica pain, there are more differences than similarities when you look at the symptoms. But there is some common ground. The sciatica nerve is the route traveled by pain and other symptoms, including weakness and numbness, from the lower back, spreading through the ...
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