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The Awesome Anti-Inflammatory Diet You Need To Know

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What is an anti-inflammatory diet? An anti-inflammatory diet is one in which fresh fruits, vegetables, meat and seafood are eaten with little or no intake of processed foods. The purpose of this style of eating is to eat foods that are high in vitamins and minerals along with healthy proteins and fats to support the growth and repair of your body. These foods also tend to be lower in calories than processed foods. Why is an anti-inflammatory diet important? Now more than ever, our society is …

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Exercise and Stretching You Need To Live In Your World

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How can exercise improve my health? If exercise was a pill it would be a guaranteed best seller with few side effects. We know that exercise has multiple health benefits and plays an important role in successful aging. Some of the many benefits of exercise are that it will: Optimize cardiovascular function by strengthening heart muscle Raise levels of “good cholesterol” (HDL) and lower levels of “bad cholesterol” (LDL) Promote bone health and combat osteoarthritis by improving joint …

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Top 7 Things You Need To Know About Regenerative Injection Therapy

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#1 Regenerative injection therapy (RIT) has been in clinical use for over a century. A form of regenerative injection therapy was used as a hernia treatment in the early 19th century by Dr. Jaynes in Louisiana (Rice, 1936). In the 1950s, George S. Hackett M.D. developed a form of regenerative injection therapy that he termed "prolotherapy".  He found it very successful for the treatment of ligament laxity leading to other musculoskeletal conditions (Hackett, 2008). His focus was on injuries of …

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The Most Important 18 Exercises For Your Back

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These are the most important back exercises that you can do for your back to maintain flexibility and strength. If any of these exercises cause pain, you should stop the exercise and see your doctor who may do a further workup which may include an MRI. These exercises will not help if you sit for long periods of time. 1. Pelvic Rock Stand in a comfortable position with your hands on your hips. Then gently rock the top of your hips forward while arching your back Return to the starting …

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The 10 secrets about your amazing ligaments

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In sports medicine, physicians focus on cartilage, discs and nerves, but we rarely talk about ligaments which keep your bones together, except when it comes to a knee injury.  Once a ligament is injured,  the structure it holds together tightly becomes loose. With loosening, abnormal motion develops in the joint resulting in occasional pain and a progression to osteoarthritis many years later. With the huge number of musculoskeletal injuries that are treated yearly in the U.S., we need to think …

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How To Understand Your Complex Spine MRI in 8 Easy Steps

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An MRI can be very easy to understand if you know where to look and radiologists who do this for a living make it look very easy. This is a very simple guide to help you understand your MRI pictures and how they correlate with your symptoms.   I will start with the length-wise sagittal views, or what I call the baguette views as they are easier to follow. Then I will review the axial or cross-section views that I call the sliced bread view.   1. Central canal Start with the …

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