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What is Spinal Decompression Therapy? Stories

What is Spinal Decompression Therapy?

Spinal Decompression is a non-invasive, non-surgical technology where a patient is placed onto an instrument which belts them in and separates their lower body from their upper body. This allows for pressure to be relieved on certain joints and structures in either the lumbar or cervical regions of the spine. The treatment lasts about 15 to 20 minutes, depending on the type of device being used. Patients are usually placed on a protocol that is software driven.

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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome NYC

 Christopher Trahan OMD., LAc

Christopher Trahan OMD., LAc

Olympus Center for Holistic and Integrative Medicine
54 West 21st Street (near 6th Ave)Suite 910
NYC, NY 10010
Call (888)-530-0611

Are you looking for a holistic way to treat your carpal tunnel syndrome in NYC? Dr. Trahan O.M.D., L.Ac. runs the Olympus Center for Holistic and Integrative Medicine in NYC, and has helped many patients that suffered with carpal tunnel syndrome.

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One Simple Solution to Neck Pain: Good Posture Stories

One Simple Solution to Neck Pain: Good Posture

Treating and preventing chronic neck pain can often be successfully accomplished by something as simple as adopting correct posture while waking and sleeping. While the pain sufferer can treat the symptoms of frequent neck "cricks" with neck stretch exercises, painkillers or ice applications, the symptoms' root causes must be dealt with differently. These root causes often involve some kind of poor posture, says Dr. Brian Bruel, an assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation on the one hand, and anesthesiology and pain management on the other, at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Posture violators might crouch over a desk all day long, slouch on a sofa while watching TV, or contort themselves while reading.

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Spine Decompression South Jordan

Dr. Michael Kunzler

Dr. Michael Kunzler

Utah Disc Center
471 West Heritage Park Blvd Suite 3
Layton, UT 84041
Call 801-525-1471

If you're tired of having to rely on constant bed rest, numerous pain medications, and a lot of wishful thinking to successfully heal your back pain, then you should consider a reliable alternative that will deliver what other treatments have failed to: considerable pain relief. That alternative treatment is spinal decompression therapy with Dr. Michael Kunzler at the Utah Disc Center in South Jordan, Utah. Dr. Kunzler is there to provide you with first-rate spinal decompression therapy that will finally end your pain and help you start a healthy and functional lifestyle.

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Preliminary Data a Boon for New Spinal Decompression Stories

Preliminary Data a Boon for New Spinal Decompression

Two pilot studies show that a new non-surgical spinal decompression treatment has a beneficial effect on lower back pain, and that it seems to benefit the morphology of the spine by increasing disc height. One study, authored by Dr. John Leslie of the Mayo Clinic and others, found that clinical use of a spinal decompression system led to an 88.9 percent reduction in pain scores over the course of six weeks, as well as improvement in Oswestry disability scores and a drop in consumption of pain medications.

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Back Pain Relief Staten Island, NY

Dr. Robert M. Browne DC

Dr. Robert M. Browne DC

Staten Island DRX
3204 Amboy Rd.
Staten Island, NY 10306
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Stuck in the search for back pain relief? Is recurring stress and discomfort making everyday activities tough? Have you even considered surgery because no other treatment has proven effective? At Staten Island DRX Dr. Robert Browne DC knows a better way to treat pain conditions. With expertise in a wide range of conservative treatments Dr. Browne can relieve you pain and lead you down a road of lasting recovery. Why wait? Finding back pain relief isn't a mystery any longer. Those in Staten Island, NY call today.

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Low Back Pain Recovery Slow and Uncertain Stories

Low Back Pain Recovery Slow and Uncertain

Current clinical practice guidelines state that 90% of acute lower back pain patients will recover within four to six weeks, with or without treatment. However, new research published in The British Medical Journal has found that recovery from low back pain is much slower than previously thought. Australian researchers from The George Insitute studied patients with acute low back pain for a year. The results from the study found that even with treatment, after two months only half of the patients had recovered from the original episode of pain. After about one year, 40% were still reporting that their back was still causing them pain.

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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome New York City

 Christopher Trahan OMD., LAc

Christopher Trahan OMD., LAc

Olympus Center for Holistic and Integrative Medicine
54 West 21st Street (near 6th Ave)Suite 910
NYC, NY 10010
Call (888)-530-0611

Are you tired of feeling limited due to your carpal tunnel syndrome? Do you live in or near New York City? Dr. Trahan O.M.D., L.Ac. runs the Olympus Center for Holistic and Integrative Medicine in NYC, and has helped many patients who suffered with carpal tunnel syndrome.

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Pregnancy Weight Gain Recommendation Expected to Change Stories

Pregnancy Weight Gain Recommendation Expected to Change

During this fall, the Institute of Medicine is expected to start gathering scientific evidence to support how much weight pregnant women should gain. The current guidelines, which were announced in 1990, recommends that women with low body mass index scores should gain 40 pounds, women with normal scores should gain 25-35 pounds, and obese women should gain 15 pounds. In 2003, around 25% of pregnant women in the U.S gained more than 40 pounds during pregnancy.

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Medical Oncologist Westchester NY 10532

Dr. Tauseef Ahmed, M.D.

Dr. Tauseef Ahmed, M.D.

Westchester Oncology & Hematology
19 Bradhurst Avenue
Hawthorne, NY 10532
Call (888) 850-9152

Cancer specialist, Tauseef Ahmed, a consistent "Top Doctors" pick by Castle Connolly, cares for and treats patients throughout the New York Metropolitan Area and Lower Hudson Valley.

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African American Women and Breast Cancer Stories

African American Women and Breast Cancer

“I was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to see my children grow up and my grandchild grow, you get this really scary feeling inside,” says Rosamond Stallings. When 45 year old Rosamond Stallings was diagnosed with breast cancer 2 years ago, doctors urged her to immediately have a mastectomy. “They found like six malignant tumors,” says Rosamond. Recent studies have shown that 30 percent or more of breast cancer patients fail to receive complete treatment, and that African American women are as much as 10 percent less likely than white women to receive optimal therapy. But now, supported by a $10 million grant from the Department of Defense, a study, led by a team of doctors at Columbia University Medical Center, will look at possible reasons for the disparity.

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Cancer Treatment Center Maryland

Cancer Treatment Centers of America

Cancer Treatment Centers of America
1331 East Wyoming Avenue
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19124
Call (888) 353-8036

At Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA), we dedicate ourselves to helping our patients fight cancer. Our "whole person" approach to cancer care is aimed at taking care of all of you, not just attacking the disease. Our regional cancer treatment centers attract patients from across the country, including Baltimore, Maryland.

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Is It Safe to Drink Small Amounts of Alcohol During Pregnancy? Stories

Is It Safe to Drink Small Amounts of Alcohol During Pregnancy?

The National Institute For Health and Clinical Excellence (or NICE) recently claims that pregnant women can drink up to 1.5 units of alcohol (or one and a half small glasses of wine) without harming the unborn child. This comes after the Department of Health advises that expectant mothers should abstain from drinking entirely. So between these contradicting sets of advice, where is the truth?

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Gastrointestinal Cancer Care Westchester

Dr. Hoo G. Chun M.D.

Dr. Hoo G. Chun M.D.

Westchester Oncology & Hematology
19 Bradhurst Ave.
Hawthorne, NY 10532
Call (888) 850-9152

Hoo G. Chun, M.D., Director of Solid Tumor Service and Clinical Research, brings to the group his expertise in cancer management and solid tumor clinical research gained in fellowship training at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

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Low Fat Diet Linked to Reduced Risk of Ovarian Cancer Stories

Low Fat Diet Linked to Reduced Risk of Ovarian Cancer

A recent study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute suggests that there is a link between a low fat diet high in fruits, vegetables, and grains and a reduced risk of ovarian cancer. The discovery came from the Women's Health Initiative Dietary Modification Randomized Controlled Trial over 8 years. The trial assigned 20,000 women to the diet change group and had 30,000 women maintain their current diet. The diet change group limited their fat intake to only 20 percent of their total calories and had to eat 5 or more daily servings of fruits and vegetables in addition to 6 or more servings of grains.

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Lymphoma/ Lymph Cancer Westchester, NY

Dr. Tauseef Ahmed, M.D.

Dr. Tauseef Ahmed, M.D.

Westchester Oncology & Hematology
19 Bradhurst Avenue
Hawthorne, NY 10532
Call (888) 850-9152

Lymphoma / lymph cancer can not only drain you of energy, it can take away your hope. The doctors at Westchester Oncology and Hematology Group (WOHG) understand this. They are not only on the cutting edge of academic medicine, but are also fully equipped with the human touch that is so important in finding the treatment that is right for you.

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All Types of Alcohol Linked to Breast Cancer Risk Stories

All Types of Alcohol Linked to Breast Cancer Risk

A recent study by Kaiser Permanente Researchers has found that the effects of alcohol on breast cancer are the same, regardless of whether a woman drinks wine, beer, or liquor. The ethyl alcohol found in those drinks and the quantity consumed are the factors that weigh heavily on breast cancer risk. Researchers believe the increased risk from three or more drinks a day is similar to the increased breast cancer risk from smoking a pack of cigarettes a day or more. They claim that "Population studies have consistently linked drinking alcohol to an increased risk of female breast cancer, but until now there has been little data, most of it conflicting, about an independant role played by the choice of beverage type."

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Arthritis Pain Treatment Carson City, Nevada

Dr. Frank Shallenberger

Dr. Frank Shallenberger

Nevada Center for Alternative and Anti-Aging Medicine
1231 Country Club Drive
Carson City, NV 89703
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Aches and pains due to arthritis can be crippling to anyone living even a remotely active lifestyle. The debilitating pain can cause a person to have to give up normal daily activities; they so often feel older than they are. Dr. Frank Shallenberger and the Nevada Center for Alternative and Anti-Aging Medicine in Carson City, Nevada offer effective arthritis pain treatment to help patients go back into their normal daily routine.

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Reducing Stress Lowers Risk of Cardiovascular Problems Stories

Reducing Stress Lowers Risk of Cardiovascular Problems

A Review in The Lancet reveals the importance of healthy lifestyle choices to reduce stressors related to cardiovascular risk factors. Researchers from John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore examined records between 1990 to 2006. They observed how stress affects the sympathetic nervous system, impacts physiology, and the effect it has on the cardiovascular system. Lead author, Daniel Brotman, claims "Acute physical stressors such as sugery, trauma, and intense physical exertion are well known triggers of cardiovascular events. Emotional stressors are increasingly recognized as precipitants of such events."

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Bariatric/Obesity Surgery Westchester, New York

Dr. Daniel G. Davis

Dr. Daniel G. Davis

The Columbia University Center for Obesity Surgery at Lawrence Hospital
55 Palmer Avenue
Bronxville, NY 10708
Call 888-468-9351

At Lawrence Hospital's Center for Obesity Surgery in Westchester, they strive to give you the tools and support necessary to achieve the results you desire. Dr. Davis and the rest of his staff work tirelessly to provide patients with the most innovative weight control techniques.

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