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Is your back pain a sign of Ankylosing Spondylitis?

Post author By Jenny Smiechowski
Post date July 5, 2019

Everyone deals with back pain from time to time. Sometimes it’s caused by too much sitting, too much standing or too much lifting. But what if your back pain is ankylosing spondylitis, a condition you may have seen in headlines and wondered, “what is that?”

Tags Back Pain, Inflammation

Healthy Living Mental Health

The frightening danger that’s 3x higher with restless leg syndrome

Post author By Jenny Smiechowski
Post date September 25, 2019

Restless leg syndrome is a harmless disease, or is it? It is true that restless leg isn’t caused by a serious medical problem. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t serious. People with this mysterious disease (doctors still don’t know exactly what causes it) face major risks that people without this disease don’t have…

Menopause Women’s Health

Traditional Chinese Medicine could help you keep cool during menopause

Post author By Jenny Smiechowski
Post date November 18, 2019

Menopause symptoms can be miserable. Some women turn to hormone replacement therapy (HRT). But a lot of women don’t feel comfortable with the potential side effects, including a higher breast cancer risk. So, what else can you do? Check out herbs that work just as well…

Tags Women

Menopause Women’s Health

Hormone therapy and breast cancer link worse than thought

Post author By Dr. Adria Schmedthorst
Post date November 26, 2019

When you go for your yearly checkup, one of the boxes you’ll have to check on their forms is about whether you’re taking hormone therapy drugs. While it does come with some benefits, it’s been discovered that the risk it carries has been dramatically underrepresented…

Tags Women

Healthy Living Mental Health

How to tap into drug-free depression and anxiety relief

Post author By Dr. Michael Cutler
Post date January 13, 2020

All of us feel good when things are going well. But when feelings of frustration, anger or despair erupt, it’s time for help. It’s easy to take the pills any doctor can prescribe to mask your symptoms. But you have other options, proven effective, safe, and inexpensive for pain, depression and anxiety…

Healthy Living Mental Health

How acts of kindness could relieve your pain

Post author By Jenny Smiechowski
Post date July 8, 2020

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Acupuncture, medical marijuana, cognitive behavioral therapy, curcumin and anti-inflammatory diets are all popular, effective options for pain management. But there’s one more natural pain solution I’m willing to bet you’ve never heard about…

Tags Pain support

Alternative Medicine Brain Health Pain

Simply press these points for headache relief

Post author By Dr. Mark Wiley
Post date March 28, 2023

Headaches don’t have to ache. Before your head starts hurting again, check out this quick and easy guide to the acupressure points that can head off headache pain before the suffering intensifies. You may be amazed at how well and fast these points quell pain.

Tags Acupuncture, Headache, Pain Management

Alternative Medicine Pain Prescription Drugs

Safety and effectiveness of drugs for back pain up for grabs

Post author By Dr. Adria Schmedthorst
Post date April 18, 2023

Senior woman is sitting by her kitchen table, engaged in an online consultation with her doctor or nurse. A so called telemedicine video call on her laptop at home.

When your doctor prescribes drugs for your low back pain, he’s working with what he’s got. But whether analgesic medicine provides meaningful relief is still an open question, a new study has found. You may be surprised at what may work better…

Tags Acupuncture, Back Pain, Health News, Pain Management

Alternative Medicine Joint Health

How Traditional Chinese Medicine relieves arthritis

Post author By Dr. Mark Wiley
Post date December 28, 2016

Given that arthritis is the oldest disease known to man, it only makes sense that the Chinese have been diagnosing and treating it for thousands of years. Yet doctors of Traditional Chinese Medicine do not look at it as a disease, at least not in the way mainstream medicine does.

Tags Arthritis

Menopause Women’s Health

Menopause Q & A: Progestogens vs progesterone

Post author By Dr. Michael Cutler
Post date March 19, 2018

I commonly get questions from my female patients about the use of synthetic progestogens in menopause and this month a new patient came to me taking Prempro. I’d like to share why naturally-derived progesterone is safer and more effective.

Tags Women

Pain

Seeking sciatica pain relief

Post author By Dr. Michael Cutler
Post date June 18, 2018

Sciatica pain is unfortunately too common. If you don’t suffer it, try to make changes to avoid it now. Buttock and posterior thigh pain from sciatic nerve irritation can be persistent and debilitating. Let’s look at causes and also the best ways to treat this condition.

Tags Back Pain

Health News Health Supplements Healthy Living

The simple vitamin/mineral pairing that can help with vertigo

Post author By Carolyn Gretton
Post date April 15, 2022

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If you sometimes experience the kind of dizziness that feels like a sudden spinning sensation, you’re probably experiencing benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV). And it can range from annoying to downright debilitating. Some people experience a “once and done” episode, but others aren’t so lucky. Fortunately, getting relief could be as simple as the right nutrients…

Tags Calcium, Nutritional Supplements, Vertigo, Vitamin D