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  • Pain Hurts More When You Believe It Will Last Forever

    Pain Hurts More When You Believe It Will Last Forever

    Pain beliefs are a major factor that affects how we experience pain. It can work both for us, and against us! The way we perceive each situation determines how we feel. Our perceptions are strongly influenced by beliefs we develop by thinking the same thoughts repeatedly. Healthy habits of thought result in more positive emotions, less stress, and less pain. Unhealthy habits of thought result in more negative emotions, more stress, and more pain.

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  • How Your Walking Posture Affects Your Sciatic Nerve

    How Your Walking Posture Affects Your Sciatic Nerve

    Most people take the action of walking for granted and don’t realize that they might not be walking correctly. Sciatica occurs because a causative factor, such as a bone, disc, or muscle in your lower back impinges on your sciatic nerve roots. When you walk and stand correctly, you align your bones in a more effective way, creating a better pathway for the course of your sciatic nerve.

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  • Pain: Not All In Your Head, It’s In Your Brain

    Pain: Not All In Your Head, It’s In Your Brain

    Did you know it's always the brain that decides when to create pain? Let's learn how we can influence it. Being told your pain is all in your head is annoying. I used to immediately shut down when any advice sounded like they were saying my pain wasn’t real. The problem is, we perceive pain—all pain—through our mind. I was ignoring information that ended up helping me when I finally listened.

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  • What to Know About Muscle Relaxants?

    What to Know About Muscle Relaxants?

    When you have back pain, your doctor may recommend muscle relaxants—a group of drugs that are typically obtained with a doctor’s prescription. These drugs have the potential to decrease tension and spasm within a sore muscle, which may reduce pain. Here are 6 important facts that you must know if you plan to take muscle relaxants for back pain: 1. Muscle Relaxants Are Typically a Second-Line Treatment for Back Pain

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  • Central Sensitization in Chronic Pain (Plus Treatments)

    Central Sensitization in Chronic Pain (Plus Treatments)

    If you’re dealing with persistent pain, or work with pain patients, central sensitization is a big deal. PainScience.com publisher, Paul Ingram writes: "There is great variety in acute pain, but chronic pain is often defined by pain sensitization, regardless of how it all started. And world-leading pain scientist, Professor Lorimer Moseley adds: "...fear of movement, pain catastrophizing, anxiety, and nervous system sensitization appear to be the main contributors to pain and disability."

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  • How a Lumbar Herniated Disc Causes Sciatica

    How a Lumbar Herniated Disc Causes Sciatica

    The term sciatica refers to a set of symptoms, such as pain, tingling, numbness, or weakness that radiates along your sciatic nerve which typically courses from your lower back down to your feet. The medical term for sciatica is lumbar radiculopathy—a condition where spinal nerve roots in the lower back get irritated or compressed, sending pain and/or neurological symptoms into your lower extremities.

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  • Options for Degenerative Disc Pain

    Options for Degenerative Disc Pain

    Though degenerative disc disease can cause debilitating neck or back pain which may also radiate into the arm or leg, there are many treatment options. Some treatments may be more beneficial and effective than others based on the individual, so here are several options to consider trying in order to reduce pain.

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  • Guide to Overuse Injuries

    Guide to Overuse Injuries

    Plantar Fasciitis - It’s the most common cause of pain on the bottom of your heel. The ligament that connects the front and back of your foot and supports your arch gets swollen and irritated. Though it’s hard to know exactly what causes it, you’re more likely to get it if you repeat the same impact on your feet (when you run, for example). It’s more common when you start out.

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  • Back Pain: The Scientific Mind Body Guide

    Back Pain: The Scientific Mind Body Guide

    When our back hurts, we instinctively believe it’s because we’ve injured the area. After all, most pain works this way. When we cut our fingers, we see blood and feel pain. When we get the flu, our body hurts as it battles the virus. But persistent back pain is different. Decades of research prove that there simply isn’t a close connection between the condition of the spine and the likelihood of experiencing pain.

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  • How a Herniated Disc in Your Upper Back Causes Pain, Numbness, and Weakness

    How a Herniated Disc in Your Upper Back Causes Pain, Numbness, and Weakness

    A herniated disc in the upper back, also called a thoracic herniated disc, can cause a variety of symptoms including pain, numbness, and weakness. While sharp, axial back pain that worsens with activity is most common, other signs and symptoms can include:
    1-Burning and/or electric-like pain that localizes to the back or radiates circumferentially around the chest or abdomen. 2-Similar shock-like pain can radiate into the legs. 3-Sensory disturbances, including tingling and numbness, may be experienced at or below the level of the herniated disc.

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