Try the Superman Exercise to Stand Tall and Proud
The superman exercise is an effective and efficient exercise for people of all fitness levels. It targets your lower back muscles, glutes, hamstrings, and abs.
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Cannabis use disorder tied to spine surgery complications
Cannabis abuse appears to be associated with worse spine surgery outcomes, according to a study published online March 23 in Spine.
What Are Your Treatment Options for Advanced Ankylosing Spondylitis?
Advanced AS is often treated with stronger medicines, including corticosteroids, conventional disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs), biologic drugs, and JAK inhibitors. AS treatment might also include surgery and treatment of disease complications.
What Not to Do If You Have Neck Pain
When treating your neck pain, you need to be active in your treatment, and you should stop doing certain things that may be causing your neck pain or things that may be leading to unnecessary worry and anxiety about your pain. Avoiding certain activities can be an important component of managing your cervical pain.
What Is a Facetectomy?
A facetectomy is a spinal surgical procedure for individuals who experience moderate to severe back pain as a result of an impinged spinal nerve.
Building a better backpack
A well-organized backpack helps ensure that your child has everything needed for school. Problems start when it becomes overloaded. Lugging around a heavy pack can lead to bad posture, back pain and worse.
Tailbone pain often goes away without medical treatment
Although tailbone pain can be uncomfortable, in most cases it will go away on its own within a few months.
Do more to strengthen your core
Developing core strength is essential for fitness and overall health, but it doesn't have to be a drudge. If you're ready to go beyond crunches—or never liked them to begin with!—consider these moves that target the muscles in your torso and spine.
Easy neck stretches for tension relief
It can happen when you're stuck in traffic, or hunched over for hours at your desk, or even sitting in the stands watching your child's lacrosse game—that painful twinge in the back of your neck.
FDA approves first spinal tether device to treat children with idiopathic scoliosis
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the first spinal tether device intended to be used in children and adolescents to correct the most common form of scoliosis, called idiopathic scoliosis, that has not responded to conservative treatment options, such as external bracing.
