Back Pain: A Health Concern For Nurses
If you had to guess, which profession would you say suffers more back injuries, nursing or construction? If you guessed nursing, you’re correct. Nurses with back pain are an all too common occurrence. Did you know that nurses are three times more likely to suffer a back injury than a construction worker? In fact, nurses […]
Depression and Chronic Back Pain
April 8th is World Health Day and this year’s focus is depression. Depression affects a great deal of the patients we see so we wanted to take the time to talk about depression and chronic back pain. What is depression? Depression is a common, serious medical illness. In 2015, 16.1 million US adults experienced at […]
Narcotic Pain Medications and Chronic Pain
What if we were to tell you that narcotic pain medications like oxycodone, hydrocodone, and morphine can actually worsen your chronic pain? Not that great of news, huh? Studies have found that to be the case. “A brief treatment with a pain killer, like morphine, doubled the duration of chronic pain.” Let’s talk about the […]
How do you determine a healthy weight?
There are countless fitness magazines, blogs, articles, and websites that talk about healthy weight and what’s acceptable and what’s not. We are inundated with information obsessing over the human body and what looks good. This blog is not another one of those articles. We are not concerned about your body weight in terms of how […]
