Messing with your biological clock
So, you've been cheating yourself out of your 8 hours of sleep Monday through Friday? And now that the weekend’s here you’re ready catch up?
Are you standing on a short leg?
Most of my patients are caught completely off-guard when I tell them that that one of their legs is significantly shorter than the other. As their physical therapist I know that their inherent “unevenness” may have created or has compounded the pain complaints that the patient has come to be treated for. In the adult population,…
Can bulging discs be fixed?
The discs in your spine are far more complex than a stack of circles which are prone to “slip out of place”.
The wonders of watermelon
When I was a child, I didn’t believe that watermelon had a redeeming quality—beyond using its seeds as a projectile arsenal of sorts. You see, those very same seeds made eating watermelon so tedious, that I steered clear of this fruit for close to two decades! Then something glorious (and likely, genetically altered) happened:…
The pros and cons of sunshine
So what’s a person to do—seek after the sun, or run and hide from it?
Hepatitis C—the silent killer
“Hepatitis” means, simply, “inflammation of the liver”. Many things can inflame the liver such as heavy alcohol use, certain drugs, or bacteria. There are, however, three distinct viral types of hepatitis, namely, A, B, and C; each caused by a different virus. Hepatitis A is an acute problem which usually improves without treatment.…
The skinny on diet soda
We look at some of the health problems your bubbling diet soda is serving up.
Restless legs syndrome
10% of the adult population in the U.S. is afflicted by rest-less leg syndrome. Here’s why:
Mining for melatonin
I think of melatonin as “sleep gold”. This slumber-enhancing hormone is a key element in the regulation of your body’s wake-sleep cycle.
