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When people go on long trips, they often employ a travel neck pillow to give them the ability to sleep while sitting up. These pillows are designed to hold the neck partially upright while sitting in a chair. Users can let the muscles in their neck relax as they doze off. This is the best [...]

Jul 15th, 2010 | Filed under Back Pain

When it comes to inversion machines for back pain, you have three basic options – the 90/90 inversion therapy machine, the inversion chair, and the inversion table. Each of these has it’s own unique advantages, and we will briefly discuss these advantages in this article below. Advantages of the 90/90 Inversion Machine The biggest advantages [...]

Jun 2nd, 2010 | Filed under Back Pain

If you’re a relatively young person who is suffering from back pain, you need it to get it resolved before it escalates into a chronic problem. Not only might it disrupt a healthy lifestyle of exercising and enjoying life, but it can lead to mobility issues further down the line. And since modern medicine has [...]

Mar 20th, 2010 | Filed under Back Pain

There’s a saying that speculates that “youth is wasted on the young”. There is some merit to this statement as when we were younger we had more freedom and less obligations.  Our bodies were also in good working order to do as we pleased with this freedom.  As we get older, work and family responsibilities [...]

Jan 24th, 2010 | Filed under Back Pain

Herniated disc surgery is often a frightening prospect for many sufferers of chronic back pain. Nearly 80% of the world’s population will experience some form of back pain at some point in their lives. In most cases treatment is not sought and the pain usually resolves itself within about six weeks. Those who are not [...]

Nov 3rd, 2009 | Filed under Back Pain

Upper back pain causes cover a wide range of ailments from a simple muscle strain to a deadly heart condition such as a dissecting aortic aneurysm. The usual suspects in upper back pain tend to relate the spinal column. The spinal column of the upper back consists of twelve bones known as the thoracic vertebra. [...]

Nov 3rd, 2009 | Filed under Back Pain