Atlanta Medical Clinic: Medical Blog
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
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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...