Category: Common Problems

Three ways to increase your running times without the additional conditioning

Three ways to increase your running times without the additional conditioning Most people who start to run are working on building their endurance to be able to pack on the mileage. There is often little though about running faster until you have been running for a while however, eventually, most runners think about not only completing the run, but the speed at which they wish to complete it. If you are a competitive runner, this is even more important to you, since you work quite hard at increasing endurance and speed, which is often harder than it sounds. By changing Read More »

Is Acetaminophen causing people to have asthma according to the Science Times?

Is Acetaminophen causing people to have asthma according to the Science Times? A recent NY Times article explores some new facts revealed in the Science Times. Read about it here Is acetaminophen behind a sharp rise in asthma around the world over the past three decades? Some researchers suspect that it might be, noting that asthma diagnoses began to take off just as doctors began using acetaminophen more often to treat children with fevers. Acetaminophen may also provoke inflammation in the airways, as Christie Aschwanden reports in this week’s Science Times: Read the entire article here. One other thing about Read More »

Daily joint and body aches; looking beyond Fibromyalgia for effective solutions

Daily joint and body aches; looking beyond Fibromyalgia for effective solutions During an informal conversation, a woman was explaining how she needed to constantly had to work out or she suffered greatly from Fibromyalgia. As she understood it since it made all the joints in her body ache and she had terrible neck and shoulder pain, exercise was important to stay out of pain. She explained that at times, her business made it difficult for her to exercise regularly and the pain would come back with a vengeance. Apparently, her mother had similar problems but worse. Fibromyalgia (FM) is a Read More »

Diagnosis and Treatment of runners using a treadmill as a tool

Diagnosis and Treatment of runners using a treadmill as a tool Runners have injuries from the way they run while hitting an uneven surface on the road or on the trail which produces a painful problem for them. The most frustrating thing for them is to find a solution so they stop hurting. When we evaluate people for running injuries, most of the tests we perform in-office give us a good deal of information and the procedure is to evaluate, treat, challenge, treat and repeat. Unfortunately, insurance companies do not have an appropriate way for a doctor to appropriate an Read More »

Resolving Knee Pain

Knee pain is suffered by millions of people, with the end result after years of suffering being either hip or knee replacement. Was the knee really the problem? Most people believe it is because they visit their family doctor who usually sends them to the orthopedic doctors who all look at the knee and give them good, bad or indifferent news, often leading to the path of more injury or even surgery. There is a better way but you need to be open to a different level of understanding of what the knee is, how it functions and why it Read More »