How Weight Impacts Your Total Joint Health
Age, injuries, and medical conditions are widely known to impact joint health. But, people less often consider how their body weight may be affecting their total joint health. Bodyweight largely…
Achieve Your New Year’s Resolution Weight Loss Goals With the hCG Diet
Each year, many people choose to make weight loss a new year’s resolution. Unfortunately, this resolution often is abandoned within the first few weeks of the year. If you’re looking…
The Dangers and Risks of Putting Off Knee Replacement Surgery
As exceptionally complex joints, the knees are particularly injury-prone. A knee injury can severely impact your mobility and cause significant pain. For certain conditions, such as advanced osteoarthritis, and severe…
What You Need to Know About Spinal Infections
While spinal infections are rare, they can affect people at any age and pose a significant risk of death. With this in mind, understanding the risk factors and signs of…
Why Colder Weather Increases Pain in the Knees and Other Joints
Have you ever noticed that when the weather becomes colder, your joint pain becomes worse? You’re not imagining it; this is a problem that’s shared by many people. While worsened…
What Are the Symptoms of a Dislocated Hip?
When a hip is dislocated, it means that the ball of the hip joint is forced out of the socket. Since the hip joint is the largest weight-bearing joint in…
What is Spinal Stenosis?
Spinal stenosis is a prevalent cause of nerve problems stemming from the spine. This condition impacts the spinal cord and the nerve roots extending from the vertebra of the spine,…
Delayed Whiplash Symptoms
Whiplash is a neck injury that occurs when the neck is forced into a rapid back and forth motion, causing trauma to the neck tissues. Rear-end car accidents often cause…
Conditions That Often Lead to Joint Replacement Surgery
Total joint replacement surgery is a procedure used to replace a damaged joint with an artificial joint, or prosthesis. Also called arthroplasty, this procedure may be needed to reconstruct a…
Common Symptoms of Degenerative Disc Disease
The spinal discs are located in between each vertebra and absorb impact in order to prevent damage to the spine. Over time, impact on the spine can cause the spinal…