Back Pain-Get Back To Basics!
Sprains, Strains, Excess Weight, Injury, Stress, and Poor posture are well-known sources of back pain. However, other causes may surprise you. For example, it is well established that smoking reduces blood flow to the lower spine and can lead to spinal degeneration. Even a bout of sharp coughing ...
Ankylosing Spondylitis
Response to a recent email: Hi Allan, Thank you for email requesting advice about your Son aged 35 yrs diagnosed as suffering from Ankylosing Spondylitis. Latest research has shown that 96 percent of people who have the condition carry a genetic marker called HLA-B27. It's thought that this marke...
Back Pain - Are You At Risk?
Your Family and You For the most part back injuries are caused by mechanical issues, and the tendency to get such injuries is not inherited. However there are family-related behavioural tendencies, and these behaviours - while not "inherited" as such may easily be passed down from parents to chil...
Magnetherapy What Do you Think?
For thousands of years Chinese, Egyptians, Chaldeans, Arabs, Greeks, Romans and Indians have used magnets to heal. According to legend, about 2500 years ago, a shepherd named Magnes found mineral stones sticking to the metal nails in his sandals. That mineral received the name magnetite. In 2000 ...
Joint Supplements Do They Work?
For at least twenty years there has been a debate about the treatment of osteoarthritis, about the use of the joint supplements glucosamine and chondroitin. Osteoarthritis is a condition that causes problems of wearing out of the normal smooth cartilage surfaces of the joints. Often called wear-a...