Rethinking your food choices and how you interact with food is a great way to get healthier. It’s a good idea: Healthy eating can help you achieve many health goals, including reducing cardiovascular risk, increasing fertility, supporting healthy aging. It is safe to say that it is possible to improve your health by focusing on...
Seniors may require in-home care for many reasons. Your loved one might be able do most of their tasks on their own, but they may need help for temporary reasons. Your parents may have relied on you to help them with their daily chores, such as cooking and running errands. If your loved one has...
There are many options, just like there are rainbow colors. There are many different doctors in the medical field (including doctors of osteopathy and medical doctors). Many doctors in the medical world, including family physicians, orthopaedists and neurosurgeons. They also have physical medicine and rehabilitation specialists. Some psychiatrists can even treat lower back conditions. These...
There are many causes for shoulder blade pain, specifically for the left shoulder blade. Some of these causes include aging pains, sleeping wrong, pinched nerve, torn rotator cuff and even the flu or the common cold. You’re probably thinking “Give me a break already!” Many people who suffer off and on from shoulder blade pain...
Many people have back pains, but not many will know if it is because of a bulging disc located in their vertebrae. Before you can try fixing, relieving or simply easing the pains of a bulging disc, let us find out what it really is. A bulging disc, also called a, “herniated disc”, is an...
Are you one of hundreds if not thousands of people that suffer from generalized back pain every day? Do you wake up in the morning sore? Does the pain drag on with you as the day progresses, flourishing in intensity with each passing hour instead of dwindling away? Well, you are not alone. It has...
Do you know that investing time and efforts to identify any migraine causes can usually pay off in the long run? Being a primary headache, migraine has caused huge inconveniences to millions of people around the world. Therefore, having a proper diagnosis and determining the migraine triggers is the crucial first step in getting your...
Heart disease is a serious and debilitating medical condition that can develop at nearly any age. Statistics maintained by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) indicate that heart disease causes more deaths in the United States than any other condition. Specific risk factors can increase the likelihood of developing the disease. This can...
More than one-third of Americans do not get enough sleep, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and another third get poor or interrupted sleep. Lack of sleep is epidemic, and it comes with some pretty dire consequences—an increased risk of disease, danger of nodding off while driving, reduced cognitive function and...
Do you know that the migraine symptoms of women may differ slightly from men? More women than men tend to suffer from migraines because of their menstrual cycles. This type of headaches is commonly known as the menstrual migraines.Take Note Many people often confuse menstrual migraines with migraines related to menstrual cycles. The latter are...