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Sciatic Nerve Pain

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You’ve been told you have sciatic nerve pain running down the back of your thigh into your calf muscle causing sciatica pain. This trapped nerve pain in your leg can be a continuous ache or pain that goes from the time you wake up in the morning to the time you eventually fall asleep, probably…

Piriformis Syndrome – A Real Pain in Bum

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Maybe you have a pain in your left or right bum cheek, maybe you have a sciatica pain going down your leg, did you know it could be a piriformis syndrome problem. Your sciatic nerve can get trapped at the spine from a herniated disc or arthritis changes, but it could also get pinched in…

When is it a DVT Clot Pain?

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Deep Vein Thrombosis or DVT made the headlines again recently with the unfortunate case of an avid xbox video gamer sitting for too long playing the games. I have seen two cases of DVT in patients who thought they had another type of pain condition like a muscle strain or low back disc herniation. Today…

Home Neck Traction for Neck Pain Relief

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When you have a neck pain sometimes you feel like if only someone could traction my neck to take the pressure off the nerve. You might have had a physio or chiropractor do some neck traction on you and felt the difference and wanted to do that yourself at home. Today I want to look…

The Diabetes Diet ~ Hope for Type 2 Diabetics

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In the news is the latest research on type 2 diabetes normalising their sugar levels on the diabetes diet coming out of Newcastle. This has caught the attention of the press and news agencies because of the dramatic changes the 11 type 2 diabetic participants achieved in the study¹ published the June 2011 edition of…