Heart disease. We all know about it, we all want to prevent it and sadly, we all know someone with it. When we think of heart disease, our minds naturally think of heart attacks or maybe heart failure. We think of an overweight man with high blood pressure and diabetes, although we know women are just as affected. But did you know that inflammatory arthritis can be associated with heart disease? In fact, most autoimmune or inflammatory arthritis types can lead to disease of every part of the heart. Watch the video above or keep reading to learn more!
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Back pain: when to worry
Back Pain is everywhere! Most of us will likely experience it sometime during our lifetime and many of us will never know why. In fact, for most of us, when we see our doctor, we may be given pain relievers and told not to worry about it. But when SHOULD we worry about it? There are signs that doctors are trained to look for. Thinking about whether or not you have any of these will help you decide if and when it’s time to see your doctor.
[Read more…] about Back pain: when to worryI love Physical Therapy
The lessons we can learn from Physical Therapy about our own body and our movement, can, literally, be life changing. Having persistent joint pain or body pain can be frustrating and demoralizing. It can have a profound impact on ALL aspects of our lives, as we may find we can no longer do the things that brought us joy or stress relief. At first, this may seem like a small annoyance, but with time the tension can build and our mental health can suffer. Naturally, we think that this deserves a trip to the doctor, and of course it does. But all too often I have seen the looks of disappointment when I suggest the treatment is physical therapy. What? No shot?? No medication?
[Read more…] about I love Physical TherapyCan Joint Injections help your arthritis?
Joint injections come in many different flavors and if you have ever talked to your doctor about your joint pain, they have most likely come up. But do they help? What can you expect from them? And which kind should you get? To learn more keep reading and check out the video above.
Joint injections are one of the many tools primary care doctors, rheumatologists and orthopedists have to help you with your joint pain. In previous years, the only option would be a steroid injection but these days we have hyaluronic acid injections, platelet rich plasma (PRP) and even stem cells. But be careful! Only steroid injections and hyaluronic acid injections are approved. PRP and Stem Cell injections are gaining popularity but still lack data proving their efficacy. How the PRP and Stem Cells are obtained is not standardized, which makes studying them very difficult.
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