Not All Pain Is Created EqualPain is a fact of life. Pain lets us know that something’s amiss and needs our immediate attention; without it, we wouldn’t survive. Yet, in some people, the pain experienced after injury is amplified and persistent, causing ongoing problems that interfere with day-to-day living.While pain...
We’ve probably all heard that gaining weight can be unhealthy. But what, specifically, makes excess weight unhealthy? Here are a few ways that weight gain can worsen or create health conditions, including chronic pain.PsychologicalAccording to a study discussed in an article for Harvard’s School of Public Health, people who suffer...
Before you can treat sciatica, you must first know what’s causing those symptoms. Although many refer to sciatica as a condition or disease, it is actually only a set of symptoms that accompany a condition such as a back injury. Sciatica symptoms occur after a herniated disc or other back...
