Pop Your Joints – Once You Pop…
Just about everyone knows the feeling you get after you “pop” a joint that just needed to pop. The relief of that strange, achy feeling in your knee or knuckle suddenly gone by a quick snap. It’s a neat and fun phenomenon without any real risk. No, if you pop your joints you’re not going […]
Watch Your Mouth! – Stress & TMJ
As we have been discussing stress over the past few posts, it has hopefully become more clear that stress has a wide impact on the body. With regard to pain, our head tends to show signs of stress more than other areas. A lesser-discussed area of the body (but an important one!) that tends to […]
Posturing in School
When it comes to school, there are a lot of things that come to mind: grades, homework, teachers, desks, probably more homework. Some of these things are good, some are bad, and some just are what they are. Desks, for example, are a useful piece of furniture in the school setting. For short bouts of […]
Getting Through the Carpal Tunnel
In this day and age, a lot of us spend more time interacting with our computers for work or school than we do actually interacting with people. Smartphones have stolen the headlines from computers as far as ergonomic issues go, but computers haven’t gone anywhere in most work spaces. Significant computer use has been attributed […]
Bent Out of Shape
Pain in the elbow is generally brought on by repetitive movements like throwing, swinging, or activities that involve gripping. These tend to develop when someone is just using their arm for more than the tissues in the arm can handle at any given period of time. An example is a baseball pitcher exceeding their pitch […]
How to Avoid Knee Cap Pain
The knee joint is one of the body’s simplest at first glance. You can make it bend or you can straighten it out. Easy. Most introductory anatomy course will compare the knee joint, classified as a hinge joint, to a door hinge to help people understand how it works. As with everything else in the […]
Strike Two (or More): Multiple Car Accidents
People are well aware of how common car accidents are, and it’s fair to guess that many readers have had a car accident at some point in their life. Recovering from a car accident can be quite a challenge, even if the accident is relatively “mild”. Accidents typically affect the entire body (and mind) in […]
Taking the Temperature on Heat vs Ice
A question that comes up just about every time someone is having pain is whether they should use heat vs ice. The traditional line of thinking is that you use ice if the injury is recent (meaning within 7-10 days) or if there is swelling, and you use heat for general soreness or chronic pains. […]
Optical Headache… Not So Easy on the Eyes?
It’s 9:30 pm, you’re sitting on the couch at home just looking at your phone or TV, and it’s been at least a couple hours since you’ve looked at anything aside from a screen, and you’ve had a headache for the past hour or two. We call this an optical headache, often caused by eye […]
When to get Your Headache Checked
Headaches are a relatively common event, and most people experience some sort of headache on a fairly regular basis. The good thing about headaches is that most of them will come and go without much need for any intensive treatment. There are some types of headaches that are more concerning, however, and they will require […]