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Posts by Dr. Michael L. Hall
No drugs. No needles. No surgery. Spinal Decompression Therapy, first approved by the FDA in 2001, has since evolved into a cost-effective treatment for herniated and degenerative spinal discs; one of the major causes of back pain and neck pain. It works on the affected spinal segment by significantly reducing intradiscal pressures. This is a conservative procedure for patients suffering with bulging...
8/11/2012 2:47:48 PM
A generation ago it was expected that you would spend your golden years in a rocking chair on the porch. Now we demand more. Half of your friends, family, and co-workers are telling you to do less. If it hurts to sit, then you should sit less. If it hurts to stand or walk, then you should stand or walk less. Just do less and less, less and less often which reminds me of the old joke, "Doc, it hurts...
6/24/2012 5:54:37 PM
If you have chronic lower back pain or neck pain, you are not alone. Nearly everyone at some point in their life will experience a lifting, twisting, or falling injury that will result in acute pain severe enough to interfere with work, play, and other activities of daily living. Some of these acute injuries will result in chronic pain. Americans spend more than $50 billion each year on low back pain...
4/29/2012 12:23:12 PM
Millions of Americans experience low back pain or neck pain at any given time. When your back hurts bad enough for long enough a normal life becomes impossible. In the past, a patient suffering with a bad back was usually given pain medications or injections, instructed to refrain from physical activities, referred for physical therapy, and when they weren't progressing they were sent for spinal surgery...
4/7/2012 5:56:45 PM
Of course you can live with the pain, it's the effects of the stress you can't live with. How many times have you heard that stress causes health problems? Modern medical science finally has an answer. I'm not going to argue that you can't live with back pain. Of course you can. For proof just look in the mirror. There is a long list of various maladies that could cause back pain, and to be sure, a...
3/30/2012 6:58:05 AM
According to the CDC back or spine problems are the second most common reason for disability in America affecting 7.6 million people. Modern medical science finally has an answer to help alleviate the suffering. Almost as common as the common cold, back pain and neck pain is thankfully not at all serious. I draw this conclusion not from 30 years of experience working with those who actually suffer...
2/11/2012 4:03:28 PM
The spine is made up of a chain of bones, called vertebrae , separated by discs, all of which are connected together by ligaments and muscles. The vertebrae cover and protect the spinal cord which travels from the brain down a channel in the middle of each vertebra called the central canal. Where two vertebra come together a notch is formed in the side (lateral) through which exit spinal nerve roots...
1/21/2012 6:13:33 PM
A pinched nerve occurs when too much pressure is applied for too long to a nerve by surrounding tissues-such as by bones, cartilage, muscles, tendons, ligaments, spinal discs, or (rarely) tumor. Everyone has at one time or another applied too much pressure to the "funny bone" in their elbow which is actually the ulnar nerve. This physical pressure disrupts the nerve's function causing pain, tingling,...
12/24/2011 9:32:05 AM
What is Stenosis? Spinal Stenosis is a medical condition in which the spinal canal narrows and compresses the spinal cord and/or exiting nerve roots. Stenosis is from the Greek word meaning "a narrowing". Central canal stenosis is a narrowing of the channel in the center of each vertebra through which passes the spinal cord on its way down the spine. Foraminal stenosis is a narrowing of the channel...
11/26/2011 8:19:06 PM
Spinal Decompression Therapy, first approved by the FDA in 2001, has since evolved into a cost-effective treatment for herniated and degenerative spinal discs; one of the major causes of back pain. Millions of Americans suffer from severe back pain or neck pain as a result of bulging or herniated discs. This bulging disc causes a pinched nerve with resulting arm pain or leg pain commonly called sciatica...
11/9/2011 12:55:32 PM
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