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Can’t Get Rid of Shoulder Tip Pain? – Think C4/5 Neck Facet
Various measures have been used for trapezius tip pains but they keep coming back. Now it’s confirmed the neck is a player.
Posted in myofascial pain, Neck, shoulder
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Office Factors Related to Chronic Neck Pain
Keyboard too close, too long in one job position, and muscle tension are 3 factors found in one study
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Why are Pain Severity Readings Omitted From Recent Fibromyalgia(FM) Studies?
Two important studies on approaches to help Fibromyalgia (FM) have omitted changes in Visual Analog Scale (VAS) readings in their results. Giving reading of skin tenderness adds differences with each muscle site tested and can exaggerate total difference. Suspicion is, … Continue reading
Posted in Fibromyalgia, Manual Med
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Monotherapy Mediocre in Treating Fibromyalgia (FM)
New Acceptance and Commitment therapy – 8 sessions of 2.5 hours reduced pain by 20% in 1/2 cases but only 50% in 1/48 cases. Fairly maximal drug therapies with pregabalin +/- Duloxetine alone was not great
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Quick Fix For Headaches – Repeated Nerve Supraorbital, Infraorbital, and Occipital Nerve Blocks – and What To Do For The Very Bad
Series of 3 simple eyebrow, just below eye and bottom of skull posterior injections can give long-lasting relief of headaches. Now, just to get family doctors to pick up a syringe…
Posted in Headaches, Injection
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Help For Severe Neck Pains
Three cases of severe neck pain with radiation down arm, not helped by any other measure, were helped with mini-pulse therapy of betamethasone 4 mg twice daily for 4 days and decreasing doses subsequently. In those 3 cases, pain disappeared … Continue reading
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Workplace Neck/Shoulder Pains – Does Strength Training Work? – Maybe Not Unless You Are a Responder
Neck and shoulder tip/shoulder pains are common in the workplace and are not easily eliminated. A program of strength training only worked in those that are doing well and likely to continue program until end (I call them responders). Influence … Continue reading
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