A healthy back is an integral part of overall health.  Having a strong and flexible spine will support all other areas of the mind and body.  When you have back pain, bad posture or some injury, you run the risk...

  We all have back pain at some point or another.  For some, it is a few days event and for others, it is chronic and life changing.   If your pain is the result of a trauma or accident,...

The benefits of hot and cold therapy go back further than your mother’s advice.  In fact, you would have to go back to ancient Rome and Greece.  In the time of Hippocrates, bathing was considered to be more than hygienic;...

Yoga has been around for over 5,000 years.  It was here long before you and I decided to pay a monthly fee at a gym to get in shape.  And, for some of us, it will be here long after...

There isn’t much in life that you don’t need to prepare for.  You prepare for work, for children, for vacation, for taxes, etc.  It is often what you do before and after that makes the difference and preparing effectively makes...

Is Sitting at Your Desk a Pain in the Neck?  Millions of people spend a great amount of their working day at a desk staring into a computer screen and frantically typing on a keyboard.  And a great deal of...

Our spines secretly hate us. One-third of people in the US suffer from some form of back pain. That number is expected to greatly increase over the next few years, thanks to a combination of the desk-bound life and our...

by Diana SwiftMedpage Today Weight and depression were independent predictors of an increase in back pain risk, according to a Australian study.Among women with a median age of 49.5 who were followed at 3-year interval over 15 years, for every...

Opioids only have a small effect in reducing low back pain in those who can tolerate the medicine, says new study. Source: AAP Opioid painkillers, even at high doses, provide minimal benefit for people with low back pain, new research...

Just ditch your flat shoes and switch your pillows By Laura Harman For Healthista Back pain is one of the most common physical problems that most people will experience at some point in their lives.  Whether it's general stiffness, constant...

by Brian Maher, BS, CSCS, Owner, Philly Personal Training For back pain sufferers, it may sound counterintuitive to weight train, but the truth is frequent weight training can actually improve your symptoms and decrease your pain. In fact, a University...

Many people use hot or cold therapy when it feels best to them, however, doctors provide guidelines on when thermal therapy should be used. HOT: BEFORE For many people, heat therapy works best when combined with other treatment modalities, such...