Atlanta Medical Clinic: Medical Blog
Baby Boomers Guide to a Healthy Lifestyle
Look out, retirement, the baby boomers are here. If their name is any indication, their time in retirement could be incendiary. This article will take a look at what it means to be active during retirement. We ask the question, “How does a baby boomer, or anyone...
American Pain Statistics Infographic
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Osteoarthritis on a Cellular Level
Arthritis is a disease in which bone and/or cartilage in the affected individual’s body is lost. This process of degeneration in turn reshapes the joint (causing, for instance, severely bent fingers in extreme, long-developing cases). A proper program of pain...
How Over-the-Counter Pain Medications Can Be Bad
Treat the Condition, not the Symptom A 2005 study, detailed in 2011 by Consumer Reports and covered in turn by the Washington Post, explores the overuse in the United States of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). NSAIDs – such as aspirin, ibuprofen, and...
Tips to Improve Sleep & Manage Pain
Sleep is an essential part of healing and managing pain. We need to get enough to function properly (8 hours), but quality sleep is most important. When we sleep our bodies are healing and repairing the damage done from the stress of the day, and naturally during this...
Why Your Diet Is the First Place to Look to Reduce Pain?
Dietary modifications for Pain Management As experts in pain management, we focus on empowering our patients so that they can conquer this often debilitating health problem from all sides. One major way to target pain and reduce it is through diet. Often individuals...
Five Things You Didn’t Know about Your Brain On Pain
We all experience pain, but how does it work? Why do we stub our toe or strain our back and feel it, almost immediately, in our mind? Of course we understand that the brain is the central processor of our nervous system, but the specifics of how pain is felt in the...
Achieving Pain Management Without Surgery
When most people think about pain management, the first thing that many people think of is having to go through surgery. This can scare people away from wanting to alleviate their pain because not everyone has the time or money for surgery. Surgery isn't always the...
Using Spinal Decompression To Painlessly Eliminate Back Pain
No one wants to experience back pain. No one wants to experience a painful, time consuming surgery to treat their back pain either. People shouldn't stress so much about the idea of receiving treatment for their back pain since there are several methods for...
Osgood-Schlatters Disease 101
Osgood-Shlatters Disease is a common cause of knee pain and is known as an overuse injury. Typically, patients are children and young athletes between the ages 10 and 15 that are experiencing a period of rapid growth combined with a high level of sport activity. Young...