How one tendon can throw you off your stride
The Achilles tendon is a long band of tissue that connects calf muscles at the back of the lower leg to your heel bone. This tendon is used when walking, running, jumping or pushing up on your toes. But if it's injured, the pain, typically located in the back of your calf, and lack of function can throw you off your stride for months. Recognizing when you're at risk for Achilles tendinitis and knowing how… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - May 18, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
How My Employee Made A Stunning Recovery, And How You Can Too
All the patients we treat at the Sears Institute are special. But today I want to tell you about one who is like family to me…
I’m talking about my clinic manager Brandi. If you’ve been to my clinic, you’ve probably met her. She’s a favorite with patients.
In all the time I’ve known her, she always had a smile on her face. But Brandi’s smile hid the unbearable pain she endured every moment.
Brandi had been in a horrific car accident that caused major damage to her back. Injuries to both her cervical and lumbar spine left her in constant pain. Every move she made was agonizing. It got to the point she coul...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - May 16, 2023 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Jacob Tags: Anti-Aging Source Type: news
FDA OKs Spinal Cord Stim Devices for Chronic Back Pain FDA OKs Spinal Cord Stim Devices for Chronic Back Pain
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the indication for Abbott Laboratories ' spinal cord stimulation (SCS) devices to include treatment of chronic back pain.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines)
Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines - May 16, 2023 Category: Neurology Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery News Alert Source Type: news
On sale now! Get your hands on the 'miracle' back support vests for improved comfort and posture
SHOPPING: Designed to provide extra support to your back muscles and improve your posture, the PERCKO Lyne UP The Everyday Vest has been hailed a 'miracle' by back pain sufferers. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Abbott Receives FDA Approval for Its Spinal Cord Stimulation Systems to Treat Chronic Back Pain in People Who Have Limited Surgical Options
(Source: Abbott.com)
Source: Abbott.com - May 16, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Record numbers not working due to ill health
Mental health issues and back and neck pain have contributed to the rise in long-term sickness. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - May 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Pandemic Didn ’ t Really Change How Americans Think About Sickness
Thomas McDade, a biological anthropologist at Northwestern University, still remembers an advertisement for cold medicine he saw in late 2019. The ad showed a visibly sick businessman walking through an airport, “and the message was, ‘You can solider through this. You can make it,'” McDade says.
That message didn’t age well. Only a few months later, the virus that causes COVID-19 began spreading across the globe, prompting health officials to beg people to stay home no matter what—but especially if they felt sick. Suddenly, soldiering through an illness wasn’t seen as admirable, but irre...
Source: TIME: Health - May 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
New FDA Guidelines in Place to Keep Asbestos Out of Cosmetics
The Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act of 2022, known as MoCRA, is the most significant measure taken in nearly 100 years to keep items most people use every day safe. Not since the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act was passed in 1938 has there been such a sweeping piece of legislation.
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Americans use six to 12 cosmetics products daily. Ordinary items like shaving cream, makeup, nail polish and skincare products may contain talcum powder. Talc has the potential to be tainted with asbestos since the minerals form close together. Asbestos can cause mesothelioma, ...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - May 11, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Fran Mannino Tags: Asbestos Exposure Legal Source Type: news
People With Chronic Pain Who Use Abbott ’s Eterna™ Spinal Cord Stimulator Now Have Expanded MRI Options
The Eterna ™ spinal cord stimulation (SCS) system is FDA approved for wider access to scans, allowing for more options for people in need of imaging (Source: Abbott.com)
Source: Abbott.com - May 11, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Risks of suicide in migraine, non-migraine headache, back, and neck pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Giakas A, Mangold K, Androulakis A, Hyduke N, Galynker I, Thiam M, Cai G, Androulakis XM.
OBJECTIVE: To conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis on suicidal ideation, attempts, and death in patients with head, neck, and back pain. METHOD: Search was performed using PubMed, Embase, and Web of Science from the date of the first avail... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 10, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news
Drugs Like Adderall and Xanax Can Be Prescribed Online Into 2024
Controlled substances like Adderall will be allowed to be prescribed online into late 2024, U.S. health and drug officials said, reversing their earlier position that restrictions on the drugs would be reinstated as the pandemic eased.
Health-care providers can prescribe controlled substances online through Nov. 11, according an advance copy of a rule posted online Tuesday. In addition, practitioners who establish relationships with patients on or prior to that date can continue to prescribe controlled substances for an additional year.
The Drug Enforcement Administration, which regulates medications with potential for abu...
Source: TIME: Health - May 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ike Swetlitz and Ganny Belloni/Bloomberg Tags: Uncategorized bloomberg wire Drugs healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Woman diagnosed with blood clots in her placenta after leg size doubled during pregnancy
The woman struggled to walk and experienced back pain, prior to the diagnosis, but put this down to her pregnancy. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - May 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Somerset: Pioneering spine surgery helping patients to recover
The technique uses an internal camera and aims to reduce patients' pain and hospital stay. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - May 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
First Phase 3 TREMFYA ® (guselkumab) Data in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Show Positive Induction Results Among Patients with Moderately to Severely Active Ulcerative Colitis
SPRING HOUSE, PENNSYLVANIA, May 9, 2023 – The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson today announced new efficacy and safety data from the Phase 3 QUASAR Induction Study evaluating the investigational use of TREMFYA® (guselkumab) in adults with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis (UC)a who had an inadequate response or intolerance to conventionalb and/or advanced therapies.1,c The data show statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvements across symptomatic and histo-endoscopic outcome measures.1 Safety data were also consistent with the known safety profile of TREMFYA in ...
Source: Johnson and Johnson - May 9, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Inadvertent Intrathecal Drug Injection Treating Low Back Pain Inadvertent Intrathecal Drug Injection Treating Low Back Pain
This patient inadvertently received an intrathecal thiocolchicoside injection while being treated for low back pain. What were the consequences?Journal of Medical Case Reports (Source: Medscape Orthopaedics Headlines)
Source: Medscape Orthopaedics Headlines - May 5, 2023 Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Journal Article Source Type: news
