As we age, our bodies process change naturally. Like a car, we find ourselves in need of routine maintenance. Collagen production decreases and wrinkles appear. The fluid in our spinal discs decreases and back pain shows up. Perhaps you feel more mentally tired, physically lethargic and a little bit sadder. When you’re looking for back [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Multiple sclerosis is a chronic, inflammatory disease that affects the central nervous system. The symptoms of multiple sclerosis can be frightening for the patient and their family. Suddenly, the patient may be experiencing dizziness, chronic pain and depression that they never had before. This can be extremely stressful for everyone, but education will take the [...]
There are pain syndromes like fibromyalgia and arthritis-related disorders, such as systemic lupus erythematosus, that involve every part of the body. There are relatively mild forms of tendinitis (as in ‘tennis elbow’) and bursitis to crippling systemic forms, such as rheumatoid arthritis. There are forms of the disease, such as gout, which almost nobody connects [...]
If you’ve been to doctors and specialists galore, but they’re unable to find anything specifically wrong with you, then you may be one of the 3.7 million Americans with Fybromyalgia. The strange thing about Fibromyalgia is that the chronic symptoms manifest themselves in all different forms. Some people feel leg or nerve pain, while others [...]
Multiple sclerosis or MS is a bit of a mystery disease that affects the central nervous system. Although the debilitating symptoms of MS are quite clear, scientists have yet to establish a cause. Some researchers believe that MS is triggered by the body’s own immune system while others attribute it to viruses such as Epstein-Barr. [...]




















































