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Is Surgery Your Best Option for a Herniated Disk?

Friday, August 21, 2009 | By Johns Hopkins Health Alerts

About 10% of people experience symptoms from a herniated disk at some point in their lives. Symptoms usually occur when the protruding disk presses on one or more of the spinal nerves emerging from the spinal column. In some people, the disk presses on...

Tips for dealing with torturous low back pain

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 | By Healthy Living

Pain in the lower back is very common.   You might have heard many times about it in your own family. It can occur to anybody irrespective of gender. In fact, nearly everyone at some point has back pain that interferes with work, routine daily...

Speaking of health…

Monday, September 15, 2008 | By My Diet, Health and Fitness

Well, this has been one heck of a summer! If you’re wondering where I’ve been, the answer is - I’ve been playing Cherry Ames. Specifically Chris (yes, the one referenced in the domain name) sustained a serious back injury. He has been...

Missing deadlines...

Thursday, October 01, 2009 | By I Just Finished Reading...

I'm not going to make either of my challenges this month. I'm bummed. And in fact, looking back, I realize I only did one review all month, and it was the buddy review of Hot Pursuit on Sept 2. Holy cow! I read several categories this month, just no...

Outpatient disc treatment gives long-term back pain relief

Wednesday, December 02, 2009 | By Science Codex

CHICAGO – A randomized, controlled study comparing standard conservative therapy to a minimally invasive treatment called percutaneous disc decompression for painful herniated disc revealed that while both treatments help patients in the short run...

Busy weekend....

Monday, June 25, 2007 | By Musing, Rambling and all around Blathering

I had a plan and I wanted to see it done! This place has falling apart and I really want to get things in order before the baby gets here. So the plan is... This weekend... Get the kids bedrooms taken care of. The older kids already do that so we...

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