Tag Archives: pinched nerve
Vitamin C Neuropathic Pain Relief
I came across a very interesting article today talking about using Vitamin C to help the neuropathic pain condition, postherpetic neuralgia. Postherpetic neuralgia is also known as shingles. Shingles is caused by the herpes zoster virus attacking the nerves causing pain usually in the intercostal nerves of the chest. What I found interesting was in the recent study by Chen et al. was that they helped to reduce the patients pain significantly using the anti-oxidant, Vitamin C (ascorbic acid). They found that a sign of poor nutrition is testing to see if you have low plasma levels of Vitamin C in your blood. But why Vitamin C? Well I had a look further into the role of nutrition particularly vitamin c in helping trapped nerve pain Continue reading Vitamin C Neuropathic Pain Relief
Pain Between Your Shoulder Blades
Quite often a patient will come into the chiropractic clinic and tell me they have a pain between their shoulder blades. They’ll want to show me where the pain is by touching my back because they cannot reach the painful area on their own backs. The patient will usually say the pain can be a burning ache or a sharp pain that catches their breath. So today I thought I would talk a bit about the symptoms and what can cause pain between the shoulder blades and what can you do to try relieve the shoulder pain yourself today. Continue reading Pain Between Your Shoulder Blades
Radiculopathy | Neuritis | Trapped Nerve Pain
Radiculopathy and neuritis are medical terms used to describe a trapped nerve pain. What do they mean when the doctor says you have a L5-S1 radiculopathy or a sciatic neuritis. That is today’s nerve talk post. Continue reading Radiculopathy | Neuritis | Trapped Nerve Pain
Spinal Surgery | Predicting Repeat of Lumbar Disc Herniations
Spinal surgery research looking at predicting a repeat of lumber spine disc herniations. Risk factors for having lumbar spinal surgery fail include smoking, obesity, disc height and range of motion. So how can you help make your back stronger read on here. Continue reading Spinal Surgery | Predicting Repeat of Lumbar Disc Herniations