What is Text Neck? You may have noticed a new buzzword in health news recently: Text neck. Text neck is the term used to describe neck pain and damage sustained from looking down at your cell phone, tablet, or other wireless devices too frequently and for too long. The distinct posture often seen in texting…
11 Strategies for Gardening with Back Pain Gardening is one of the joys of life for many of us, but gardening with back pain can throw a wrench into the best-laid planting plans. That doesn’t mean you need to cross gardening off your list. With a few adaptations and a dash of creativity, you can…
Rules to Avoiding Pain & Improving Lifestyle Avoidable pain is frequently associated with musculoskeletal injuries and include the muscles, tendons, ligaments, bursae, discs and joints. While it is unlikely to live completely free of these common aches and pains, it is possible to minimize their severity, frequency and duration. There are 4 general rules to…
Aches & Pains: You don’t have to live with it. “You’ll just have to learn to live with it, you’re getting older.†Many older people have heard these words in response to their complaints. Aches, pains and a lack of mobility and function are so common that some people even think that it is normal…
Frozen Shoulder Do you have pain or stiffness in your shoulder and you don’t know how it got there? You didn’t hurt yourself and you don’t have arthritis, and yet your shoulder symptoms are getting worse and worse. Chances are that you may be suffering from adhesive capsulitis or frozen shoulder. This painful inflammation of…