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Cervical Dystonia | A Pain in the Neck!

Pain in the neck? A human resource specialist told me that 95 percent of his work is dealing with the 5 percent of employees who are a pain in the neck.
Albert Einstein said something like five minutes with a bore seems like an hour, yet one hour in the company of a beautiful woman [...]

Vertebral Fractures | The Back Crack From Hades

“Step on a crack, Break your mother’s back.” You know, just because something rhymes doesn’t mean it makes sense. I’ll tell you what will break your mother’s back: moving back into her house– when you’re 40 years old! Okay, more likely osteoporosis will break your mother’s (or father’s) back, but what is the deal [...]

Osteoporosis in Men

Osteoporosis in men exists. Osteoporosis is in men, not only women. Osteoporosis in men often from taking steroids, alcohol abuse, and lack of testosterone
Osteoporosis in Men:
“Sticks and stones might break my bones, but names will make me want to hurt you.” Do I sound like Paula Abdul? She said in her reality [...]

Arthritis Walk Videos

Arthritis affects mega millions of Americans. Osteoarthritis is the most common. In these 2 videos, you see there are other causes like rheumatoid, psoriatic, and scleroderma. I had the amazing honor of meeting Cathy Eichelberger. So please watch, learn, and participate!

Arthritis | Walk for the Cure

Talk the talk means you have to walk the walk. The 2009 Arthritis Walk is the Arthritis Foundation’s national event to take the pain out of arthritis.
Frankly, arthritis sucks. To be more refined, I’m sure the Queen of England would say that arthritis is a very unpleasant malady. (Hey, don’t you just love, [...]

Plantar Fasciitis

Plantar Fasciitis is a painful foot condition. Plantar fasciitis involves the deep layer of the plantar fascia. Plantar fasciitis makes the arch of the foot hurt

Rotator Cuff Tear: Tears on Your Shoulder

People with rotator cuff syndrome complain about pain when they sleep on that shoulder. “frozen shoulder” can occur from rotator cuff tear. Rotator cuff tear is also known as impingment syndrome.

Spinal Stenosis: pinched nerves in the back and neck

Spinal stenosis can pinch down on the spinal cord or roots. Spinal stenosis can cause a lot of misery. Spinal stenosis usually from osteoarthritis in back or neck.

TMJ

TMJ is a result of muscles tension, in particular, bruxism (tooth grinding). TMJ pain is usually affects only one side of the jaw. TMJ pain occurs with chewing.

Trigger Finger & Ganglion Cysts

Trigger finger is inflammation of the finger’s flexor tendon sheath. Trigger finger keeps finger from bending well. Ganglion cyst is swelling over tendon sheath

Vitamin D Deficiency

Vitamin D deficiency or insufficiency might be affecting 1 billion people in the world. Vitamin D is important for calcium & phosphorus absorption by the gut

When Doctor Becomes Patient

Do doctors make the worst patients? I’m sitting in my hotel room in Utah with ice on my elevated right knee. Torn ACL, chipped bone on my tibia, and possible torn lateral collateral ligament. Yippee, everybody dance now!
After skiing for four fabulous days, I fell at Snowbird while doing nothing and twisted my knee. [...]

Vitamin D Deficiency – No bones about it

“I’m walking on sunshine, Wooah, And don’t it feel good!” Remember Katrina and The Waves? Oh, you don’t? So many one-hit wonders. I don’t know if it would be worse to never have a big song or to think you have it “made in the shade” and then never walk on sunshine again. [...]

Plantar Fasciitis – Do Not Open Mouth Insert Foot

Jewish dance master Steve Weintraub gave a workshop on Yiddish dance to Klezmer music. When I entered the Beth Israel Synagogue for the very first time, I had no idea what Klezmer music was, but I did have some idea of Yiddish dance-well, only because I was Motel the tailor in Fiddler on the [...]

Uric Acid – Stoned

Does Rush Limbaugh have a neurological movement disorder and Oxycontin withdrawal? When he mocked Hillary Clinton’s emotional talk during the New Hampshire primaries, his body movements were jerking around as he did when he mocked Michael J. Fox, who suffers from Parkinson’s Disease. Why is he so polarizing?
Most Americans I know respect the opinions [...]

Acute Low Back Pain

Hayden Panettiere, the auto-regenerating cheerleader from Heroes, is Ms. Paparazzi Queen! You know you’re hot stuff when you’re filmed and photographed while getting a mani-pedi. On one episode, while painting her toenails, Hayden cut off her pinky toe to see if it would regenerate— which it did, just like a starfish!
Now, I’ve [...]

Constipation: Are you backed up?

“I’m on hold,” is something all of us have said. With companies facing increasing demands but less profit, we’re being put on hold everywhere. Even on the computer-help chat rooms, I’m put “on hold” sometimes for 30 minutes– which isn’t so bad because while waiting I can play Solitaire and read the latest entertainment pages. [...]

Trigger Finger & Ganglion Cysts: Snap Crackle Pop!

Lily Tomlin was electrifying at the Paramount Theater! I’ve never really known her one-woman shows or really appreciated the Laugh-In clips I’ve seen. I’m sure some of you are groaning, “Sigh, it was before his time!” I can relate. I groan at people born after 1980 who don’t know or appreciate Rogers and Hammerstein or [...]

Hernia: Ow, I think I just busted a….

Sanjaya Malakar on American Idol makes little girls cry… and the judges (especially when Paula is spaced out)… and America. He kind of reminds me of an Asian Indian version of Michael Jackson. All the girls scream and cry because “He’s so sensitive and sweet!”
I like Sanjaya. Okay, he isn’t the greatest thing since [...]

TMJ: Jaw pain is a headache

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is one of my faaaavorite movies of all time. I know every single dingle song in the original movie. “I want the world, I want the whole world! I want to lock it up all up in my pocket, it’s my bar of chocolate! Give it to me, [...]

Spinal Stenosis: pinched nerves in the back and neck

Penny pinching is no longer just a memory of the ’30s and the Great Depression. When gasoline and milk flirt with $3/gallon, Elsie the cow is going to be a billionaire but not able to afford to drive around in her Rolls Royce. She’s going to have to walk to moooooove along. Medical co-payments are [...]

Rotator Cuff Tear: Tears on Your Shoulder

Weight lifting used to be a passion of mine. As a “petite” Asian man, I used to be very self-conscious about my size. In elementary school, I was always chosen last to join a team in physical education. Even Gigi, a four-pound girl, was chosen before me (okay, I made that part up, but it [...]

Fractures: Broken up

“High on a hill a lonely goatherd, Lay ee odl lay ee old lay hee hoo!”
I love The Sound of Music. I have even been on The Sound of Music tour in Salzburg, Austria– twice! But you know what? I love every song except… “The Lonely Goatherd.” Now the puppets are great to watch, but [...]

Glucosamine & Chondroitin: Arthritis pill not that great for knees

Pain is something that’s awful, prevalent, and hard to describe to someone else. Some people experience pain, others share the pain (and yet still others just cause pain).
I was shopping at the local ABC store. (Mary Poppins sang, “A spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down,” but did not include “A small [...]

Crack Heard Around the World: My Chiropractor

Have you ever gone somewhere incognito? Jan Brady went to the pharmacy wearing a head scarf and Jackie O sunglasses because she wanted to buy a product to remove her freckles. Michael Jackson wore a mummy outfit to avoid the paparazzi– like that would work.
I wanted to go incognito when I went for my [...]