Marcus Pain Institute
When Making Medical Decisions About Pain Relief, Is More Information Better?
In today’s world we are bombarded by information and ways to obtain it. Do you want to know how many steps you take a day? Just buy a device and it will calculate it for you. Care to know what your cholesterol levels are? Simply go get a kit at your nearest drug store. Is
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What To Do When Back Pain Causes Overdose?
“We don’t appreciate what we have until it’s gone.” If only we had a dime for every time we heard this. Perhaps the reason it is such a common expression is the simple truth in it. This certainly applies to our health, but specifically our backs. We probably all take our good health in vain,
Is Looking Good Worth Having Back Pain?
There is an old expression, “beauty is pain.” Does it need to be? Is it worth risking your long-term health? Why do women wear high-heeled shoes when they know that looking beautiful in the moment may cause them pain down the road? Scientists from the Universite de Bretagne-Sud recently conducted experiments, which studied the effects
Why Health Insurances Carriers Should Not Be For Profit Enterprises
In November, I read this article in The New York Times on How Medical Care Is Being Corrupted. In a nutshell — Insurance carriers have been incentivizing care for more than 20 years by selectively paying for some services whilst denying others. To successfully address a complicated problem, such as long-standing pain, more than one
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Rafael Nadal will receive stem cell therapy for back pain – Should You?
Earlier in November, Rafael Nadal, the 14-time Grand Slam winner, announced he would receive stem cell treatment to help heal his ailing back, the same type of treatment he received for his knee. His doctor in Barcelona, Dr. Angel Ruiz-Cotorro, who has been treating Nadal for 14 years, said, “Nadal’s back pain is ‘typical of
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Medical Mystery
For seven years, searing pain with no relief – that was the title of The Washington Post story that peaked my interest. So I read the article and discovered that Charon Wicker had been experiencing a burning, throbbing, excruciatingly painful sensation in her index finger – for seven years – even though she had: Repeatedly