A couple days ago Doctor Oz spoke on Good Morning American about how to avoid back pain from daily activities. He mentioned some very good points and he’s so well spoken we want to share his short five minute discussion here on our blog.
Below is the video from Good Morning America as well as a [...]
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Today’s post is inspired by a blog post of the same name over at fitsugar.com. While their writeup is not ground breaking, it’s a great review of the commonly overlooked causes of back pain for many people. For those suffering with chronic back pain due to an illness or disease, these items probably won’t apply [...]
In a recent blog post from Elance they noted some interesting numbers about the typical 40 hour work week. For those that sit in front of a computer, you will spend close to an hourly equivalent of three months sitting in that office chair typing and reading your computer monitor during one calendar year. While [...]
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Continued from part 1.
This is part 2 of the continuing series that is focused on listing the definitions of important terms surrounding issues of the spine, bones, and spinal cord. You may want to bookmark this blog post so that you can find it at a later time. While you won’t hear all [...]
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Sometimes the most practical types of tips for dealing with back pain come from regular people living their lives around and watching healthy people as they go about their normal day. Ester Gokhale has a very practical blog post that gives four simple tips to help you achieve a pain free back. We know that [...]
Today we enjoy the wisdom of medical knowledge built over centuries of study and testing. With as much technology and medical breakthroughs that we’ve had in the past 50 years it is humbling to learn about how back pain was such a hurdle for our predecessors.
Our 35th president, John F. Kennedy, endured more than 20 [...]
Last week at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Judith Gold and her research team from Temple University in Philadelphia presented some new findings about the connection between texting and shoulder pain.
The scientists sent a questionnaire to college students asking them to report the number of text messages they sent per day [...]
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It’s early November and here in Dallas we are still enjoying mornings in the mid 50’s, but the cold winter mornings are approaching. It’s a good time to enjoy the indoors, but don’t neglect the exercise just because of the weather.
Yesterday The New York Times published an online article about training the mind to run [...]
The cervical spine is the first seven bones of the vertebral column and extends from the base skull to the top of the thoracic spine. Each of the first two vertebrae has a unique shape and function. The skull rests upon the first vertebra called the atlas, which serves as a pivot. Its design allows [...]
Your desk job is killing your back. We’ve blogged about getting better chairs, installing reminder problems on your computer, and now we’ve found a product that will continuously remind you to correct your posture.
It’s called the iPosture. It’s a button sized device designed to help you self-correct your posture by vibrating every time you slouch. [...]
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