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Yoga May Help Your Lower Back Pain

A recent study from West Virginia University has taken a group of sufferers from chronic lower back pain and put them through an Iyengar yoga programme for six months. Reportedly they showed increases in mobility and reductions in pain and depression. Although the lead researcher was careful to point


Heavy Backpacks Can Cause Lower Back Pain

Backpacks are very common in schoolchildren and students but a significant number of students report neck and back pain due to the use of rucksacks of varying kinds. Ergonomic experts have set a level for the weight of a backpack at no more than 15% of the weight of the child. Heavier items should


Lower Back Pain, Is There A Walking Cure?

Back pain is very common and results in significant amounts of pain, disability and cost throughout the population of most if not all states. New forms of therapy are continually being introduced into this very active market, offering lower back pain relief. One of the latest, reported in the


Chronic Pain is Nerve Pain

Chronic pain, such as low back pain, neck pain or leg pain, can set in train a negative series of events which include poor sleep, depression, work loss, limited activity, over medication and loss of mental sharpness. Chronic pain can develop in conditions such as diabetes where the nerve are compromised


Lower Back Pain Products, Gadgets On Show

Estimates suggest that four out of five UK adults will suffer from back pain at some time in our lives, although serious or chronic lower back pain occurs in a much smaller group. The market for any products, systems or therapies which can help us with our back pain is very large and very lucrative,


Gabapentin, Chronic Pain and Brain Development

Recent research from Stanford University School of Medicine has isolated some of the key players in the process by which the brain forms the huge number of synapses, nerve connections, necessary for the human brain to perform all its many functions. A protein called thrombospondin, secreted by astrocyte


The Top 14 Mistakes For Getting Lower Back Pain

We all know that lower back pain is a huge problem and that most of us suffer from it at some time in our lives. However, for some people low back pain can be disabling and interfere with life, jobs and personal relationships. In "The Truth About Back Pain",  a book by Todd Sinnett who is a chiropractor,


More MRI Scans Mean More Lower Back Pain Surgery

Researchers in Stanford University have shown that the incidence of surgery for lower back pain is closely related to the number of MRI scans performed, even though that the evidence for the helpful nature of back surgery is scanty. MRI scanners have become much more prevalent over the last decade


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