Opioids Kill 115 People Every Day One in every three Americans consume opioid drugs and 1.9 million of those opioid users now find themselves addicted to dangerous pain-relieving medications. Approximately 115 people die every single day from opioid drugs. The medical community began releasing opioids into mainstream healthcare with good intentions but now the billion-dollar [...]
Sleeping Position & Neck Pain Many of our patients experience neck pain right when they wake up. Optimizing your sleep position, pillow setup and mattress should all be considered if this is something you struggle with. As with so many things related to pain, an ounce of prevention may be worth a pound of cure. [...]
Neck Pain can be pretty scary. In fact, we fear spine pain more than we fear other kinds of pain. Our backs and necks are vulnerable and there's a lot of stuff that can go wrong - yet most cases are not serious; at least for the time being. This article will help to explain the [...]
How much time out of your day do you spend looking at a device? A recent study showed that almost 80% of the population between the ages 18 and 44 carry their cell phones for over 90% of their waking day. It's very easy to dismiss this position as an actual cause of our neck pain [...]
Do you suffer from headaches? Are you trying to get headache relief with over the counter medications such as Aspirin or NSAID's? If so, you might want checkout the information I'm sharing below. As I've discussed before, taking over the counter medications can be pretty dangerous for your body. A headache is really just a [...]
Cluster Headaches have been described as the "worst pain known to medical science". Of course it's hard to really quantify that statement. How the do you know if you're experiencing cluster headaches? Here's a few ways that it's been described by actual patients: "Like a really really strong pressure, and then there’s a kind of burning [...]
The "Everyday" Headache, also known as tension headaches occur when there is uncomfortable tightness or pressure around the entire head. It's estimated that up to 80 percent of the adult U.S. population suffers from at least occasional tension headaches, with around 3 percent experiencing chronic daily tension headaches. This should be no surprise given the [...]
Different Types of Headaches When it comes to headaches, there are two categories: Primary Headaches and Secondary Headaches. Primary headaches are any form of headache that is not caused by a serious medical condition. These types of headaches include: migraine, cluster, trigeminal and tension headaches. Secondary headaches are headaches caused by some other health disorder or [...]
You're Going About Your Day and Then BAM... You've got a HEADACHE. You suddenly feel like a tight, rubber band is squeezing your head so hard that it might pop! Or maybe you have those periodic headaches... with nausea, sensitivity to light and sound. Maybe it's not even in your head... but pain that is [...]
Having back pain sucks. Not knowing what is causing it, sucks even more. That's why I wrote an article last week talking about a little known muscle called the QL and how it could be the cause of your back pain. My goal was to help you understand that your back pain could be caused [...]
