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Caffeine| Headaches by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Sunday, November 02, 2008 Caffeinedependence is a frequent cause of chronic daily headache. As little as 100 mg caffeine may be enough to cause the headache, i.e. the equivale ... Read on »

Fibromyalgia| Hypothyroidism by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Saturday, October 25, 2008The symptom complex of fibromyalgia can be seen with hypo thyroid ism. Hypo thyroid ism can be categorized, like diabetes, into type I (hormone defic ... Read on »

Fibromyalgia| Metabolic Syndrome by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Sunday, October 19, 2008 Little is known about the relationship between chronicpain conditions and metabolic disturbances. This study involved women patients with fibromyalgia ... Read on »

Stress| Muscle Pain by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Sunday, October 12, 2008 The stress response is normal, healthy, and necessary alarm. If the stress response is sustained there may be a risk of illness and disease. The level ... Read on »

Shoulder Dislocation| Exercises by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain October 4, 2008Acute anterior shoulderdislocation is the commonest type of shoulderdislocation. Subsequently, the shoulder is less stable and more susceptible to re- dislocati ... Read on »

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome| Pain by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Saturday, September 27, 2008This week’s New York Times article on Carpal Tunnel Syndrome highlighted the importance of this clinical condition. This is an entrapment p ... Read on »

Office Work | Neck Pain by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Sunday, September 21, 2008 Work related neck disorders are common problems in office workers, especially among those who are intensive computer users. This study estimated the ... Read on »

Tennis| Muscles| Actions by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain September 14, 2008Shoulder injuries in tennis players are common because of the repetitive, high-magnitude forces generated around the shoulder during the various tennis strok ... Read on »

Low Back Pain| Travel by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain The festive season is celebrated by many with more than usual degrees of energy expenditure associated with holiday traveling. Traveling long distances involves sitting for ... Read on »

Chronic Fatigue| Fibromyalgia| Pre-morbid Life-Styles by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Patients with Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia, whom I have treated seemed to have special common traits and a literature search showed the following findings:Generally consid ... Read on »

Chronic Pain | Complex regional pain syndromes by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Complexregionalpainsyndromes (CRPS, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, causalgia) are pain ful neuropathic disorders that develop after trauma affecting a limb with (I) or without ... Read on »

Chronic Low Back Pain| Anger| Muscle Tension by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain In a study on patients with chronic low back pain to determine whetheranger-in, anger-out, and hostility predicted symptom-specific muscle tension reactivity found that if ang ... Read on »

eToims®|TENS by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain One of the readers has asked about the difference between TENS and eToims®. TENS stands for transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and is an effective treatment mod ... Read on »

Neck Pain| Low Back Pain| Spinal Degeneration by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

1 Comment Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain In a study on cervical spine specimens (59-92 years) including C2-C7 levels, it was found that the prevalence of cervical facet joint degeneration was very high in individuals ... Read on »

Back pain| Lifting |Handling by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain A study just published showed that advice and training on working techniques and lifting equipment does not prevent back pain in jobs that involve heavy lifting. The study ... Read on »

Back Pain| Neck Pain| Expenses by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain According to a study in the February 13 issue of JAMA, expenses related to back and neck problems have increased substantially in the last decade. However, outcomes such as ... Read on »

Neck Pain| Strength Training by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Neck pain has been steadily increasing over the past two decades and is now second to back pain, the most common musculoskeletal disorder. One of the newest randomized cont ... Read on »

Chronic Pain| Fibromyalgia| Physical Function by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain An online survey to investigate predictors of high physical function in 2,580 people with fibromyalgia (FM) showed that s ignificant explanatory variables of high physical f ... Read on »

Back Pain| Alternative Medicine|eToims Differences by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain An article by Sherman KJ. Cherkin DC. Deyo RA, et al, discusses that patients frustrated with conventional care for back pain, turn increasingly to complementary and alternati ... Read on »

Low Back Pain| Sitting| Stiffness by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Prolonged sitting may alter the passive stiffness of the lumbar spine. Consequently, performing full lumbar flexion movements after extended periods of sitting may increase th ... Read on »

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