Cervical Pain Articles & Analysis
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Summary When making a purchase, particularly one that can have a positive impact on your health and well-being, it’s only natural to have questions. To assist you in making informed decisions, we’ve compiled a list of 10 questions and our responses. However, we understand that each person’s needs and concerns are unique. If you find yourself with additional questions that ...
Treatment for shoulder pain Gabi Zeilig, MD, Dept of Neurological Rehabilitation The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel. ...
A 62-year-old woman seeking the cause of her chronic radiating neck pain of 30 years duration underwent a weight-bearing flexion-extension MRI in the FONAR UPRIGHT Multi-Position MRI. Her neutral-sitting examination showed a C5-6 herniation, but her UPRIGHT® cervical extension examination visualized an additional herniation at C4-5 that altered plans for a ...
In the wake of the COVID-19 global health pandemic, telecommuting has become the “new normal” for many in the American workforce. As states and local municipalities continue to implement stay-at-home and safer-at-home orders, telecommuting remains an integral part of many employers’ efforts to reduce the transmission of the virus in the workplace. Permitting employees to ...
Dr. Wolkenberg graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979 with a Bachelor’s degree in physical therapy. In 1986 she earned a Master’s degree in medical anthropology from the New School for Social Research in NYC, and in 2016 earned her tDPT from The College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, MN. In 2001 she became a Certified Taping Instructor and has since taught hundreds ...
Also known as “regenerative injection therapy” (RIT), prolotherapy is a procedure used to treat musculoskeletal conditions including tendinopathies, osteoarthritis, and chronic pain of the cervical spine, lumbar spine, and pelvis (Sit et al. 2017). ...
You know the importance of tarping roll-off dumpsters before you hit the open road. Flying debris makes for unhappy customers, and it invites the DOT and DNR to pay you a visit—not to mention that it could also result in an accident. Of course, bungee strapping tarps by hand is a time-consuming pain in the neck—especially if you’re a one-person show. Enter, roll-off tarp ...
What’s at Stake? One size does not fit all when it comes to work equipment. Whenever a worker has to modify or adjust them self to perform a work task, the “mis”fit causes stress and strain on the body. What’s the Danger? If the task needs to be performed only occasionally, it doesn’t typically become a problem. But the strain of performing a task repetitively ...
Microflow or nanoflow chromatography has been used mostly in the academic and fundamental research environment in the past for its various advantages over analytical liquid chromatography, but rarely in the industrial settings. This is most likely because many of us believe it is a pain-in-the-neck technique to perform! But is this a reality or just a perception? When I was in graduate school ...
Work-related musculosketal disorders (MSDs) are one of the most frequently reported cases of lost or restricted work time and can be significantly reduced by properly fitting a job to a person, also known as the study of ergonomics. Ergonomics involves evaluating the physical aspects of an environment (e.g. workstations) as well as the way in which people work to help prevent MSDs. MSDs, ...
Chondroitin sulfate is a dietary supplement which is available as the sodium salt in the form of capsules or tablets. In the field of alter¬native medicine, the intake of chondroitin sulfate is recommended as treatment for degenerative joint diseases such as osteoarthritis. According to the United States Pharmacopeia, the determination of sodium chondroitin sulfate in dietary supplements is ...