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One of the most popular reasons people visit a doctor is for pain relief – and there are a great variety of opioid-based drugs that doctors can prescribe to treat this problem. Opioids are derived from the poppy plant, and its two most commonly known natural products include morphine and codeine. While pain relief is …

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Football season has just begun and already the injury reports are filling up. This, of course, is in addition to the end of the school year and the everyday home or work injuries that can occur at any moment. When injuries arise, so much of the sufferer’s focus goes to the daunting recovery process. Platelet …

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Chronic neck pain can be extremely debilitating. Two of the most common causes are car accidents and sports injuries, whereby a seemingly acute situation transforms into a long-term source of pain. Fortunately, there are several things you can do to prevent chronic pain from getting worse, and treatment options to bring tangible relief. In this …

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The Achilles tendon gets its name from Greek mythology. A famous warrior, Achilles was vulnerable only in the narrow part behind the ankle where his mother grasped the baby when she dipped him in the River Styx, to shield him from mortal harm. The tiny ankle not coated in magic water was his undoing, as …

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Anterior Hip Replacement Cuts Down Recovery by up to 7 weeks Our hip joints are crucial to our immediate and long-term mobility. For athletes, there’s no way to play through a major hip injury and 6-8 weeks is a long time to be out of the game. Luckily, orthopedic surgeons have developed an innovative approach …

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Shortly after the introduction of the Motel T, the term ‘whiplash’ came into being— and it never went away. While orthopedic specialists have yet to find a physiological source for this condition, the ‘industry’, if you will, now costs us about $20 billion every year. Surely all these cases can’t be caused by car crashes! …

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Sports footwear is big business. Nothing drove that point home as forcefully as a story we heard from a patient. Choose Comfortable Shoes! The patient (we’ll call him Daniel) had just returned from a Caribbean cruise. One of the workshops on the cruise ship focused on healthy feet. A fitness trainer spewed a mixture of …

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Dislocated shoulder joints can be extremely painful. Have you ever watched a baseball pitcher throw a ball and wondered how his arm stayed in the socket? He makes a wild motion, bringing the ball back behind his head and then flinging the entire arm forward with a velocity that would seem capable of cracking a …

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Soccer is the fastest growing team sport in the United States, and soccer-related injuries are on the upswing. While soccer players suffer fewer traumatic injuries than athletes in other sports, each year about 100,000 children are hurt. Any game that involves running, kicking, twisting and includes other players— as opposed to a solo activity such …

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