Atlanta Medical Clinic: Medical Blog
How your posture can affect your back and neck pain
Many people wrongly think that slouching or poor posture merely changes physical appearance. That belief, however, is misguided. Neck pain, back pain, and chronic headaches can all arise from continual misalignment of the spine. Posture essentially orients the spine...
Why Your Stomach Links to Other Health Issues
Part of the reason we are the most respected choice for lower back pain Atlanta can provide is because we believe in integrative medicine and looking for solutions across disciplines. For example, we are interested in how the health of the stomach and the digestive...
Five Must Know Exercises for Maintaining Strength and Mobility
Mobility exercises have become a crucial part of healthy body maintenance in a culture where we spend so much of our time sitting. Even if you have a job where you are moving around more, opening an athletic workout with the right mobility exercises, paired with...
Home Remedies for Neuropathy Relief
At the Atlantic Medical Clinic, we treat many people for Atlanta neuropathy treatment. Since we are an integrative practice, we use both medical and natural modalities to help our patients recover. However, additional lifestyle recommendations and remedies implemented...
The Art of Pain Management: Diagnosis, Treatment, & Lifestyle
Pain management is not a simple science. Rather, it is an art form. Pain management presents an intricate blend of diagnostic, treatment, and lifestyle challenges – all of which must be overcome to achieve the fastest and fullest possible recovery. Let’s briefly...
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
[su_button url="http://www.atlantamedicalclinic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/American-Pain-Statistics-infographic1.pdf" type="icon"]Click to Download Infograph[/su_button] “American with Pain Statistics Infographic” An estimated 100 million people suffer from...
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...