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Tuesday, November, 10, 2009
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Grant Cooper
posted 10/14/2009, comments (0)

How to Relieve (and Prevent) Lower Back Pain From Returning

If I had an episode of lower back pain, am I always going to be more likely to have lower back pain in the future?                   It is true that once you have an episode of lower back pain or shooting leg pain, you are probably more likely to have it in the... Read moreChevron
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Pattye Snyder

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posted 10/14/2009, comments (0)

Visiting Simba Across the Sea With Joint Replacement Surgery Waiting Back in the States

I awakened this morning to yet another cold and dreary, rainy Fall day and, of course, the "bonus" of my extra pain from arthritis.  Early tomorrow I will catch my plane to begin the long flight back to my African home and the volunteer work I will do there for a few months. I will have limited access to a computer, the Internet and even... Read moreChevron
c21tamit
posted 05/09/2009, comments (3)

How do you live with it????

All the test results are in. I don't have... RA, OA, Lupus, and the Rhummy doesn't think it's fibro. Now What. This has been a terible blow to me. I'm sick. Why can't  they find out what's making me sick. Every DR, and there have been tons of them, Think it's something different. And most conclusions end with, Well pain management is the only... Read moreChevron
Marie

Marie

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Am 62, work FT, neck arthritis most painful
posted 04/01/2009, comments (0)

neck and hands

AT 62 I expect my hands to have some arthritis, but 6 weeks ago from the pinky down and across all my knuckles (both hands) turned beet red, swollen, wrists felt boggy, and stayed that way for a week.  They are still slightly red.   But my main concern is my neck!  I had a one level ACDF, then 2 years later the bones were going in... Read moreChevron
bearlover

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grew up on 200 acre farm, feeding and cleaning,haying,etc
posted 03/30/2009, comments (0)

Handaids

 using handaids helps.     
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The breakdown of cartilage in the knee can lead to bony protrusions called spurs and considerable joint pain.

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