Health Blog Category: pain
Is a Herniated Disc Causing Your Back Pain?
Is a Herniated Disc Causing Your Back Pain?
One of the most common causes of pain among adults in the United States is back pain.
Back pain is not something you want to ignore for long, and it can develop for any number of endless reasons. Once it does develop, making it go away can truly be an uphill battle that you can’t fight alone.
When pain in the back lingers well beyond the time that an injury would traditionally take to heal it is called chronic pain.
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Did You Know Physical Therapy Has Proven to Be Even More Effective Than Opioids?
It seems like every time you turn on the news there is another story about the opioid epidemic gripping the country.
There is good reason for the panic. In 2016 alone, 116 people died each day from opioid-related drug overdoses. Some 11.5 million Americans misused prescription painkillers in some way, costing an estimated $504 million in economic costs.
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