Shoulder Pain And Back Pain Treatment

Hand held devices like IPOD's, PDA's and Blackberries can contribute to hand pain and perhaps even to arthritis in the hands say doctors in a new report

Orthopaedic specialists say that excessive use of hand-held devices can trigger thumbs and wrists to throb - and in some cases - irritate existing arthritic ailments and tendinitis.

The problem has even been given it's own name - "BlackBerry thumb."

Treatment for this kind of hand and thumb pain might include rest, splints and in severe cases, surgery.

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Try a back pain quiz

The Mayo Clinic have launched a new back pain quiz on their website.

Discover which back pain treatments are proven to speed up the healing process. Find out the best back pain treatment you can buy over the counter? Whats the worst thing you can do when back pain strikes? What's best for your back - heat or ice? How should you sleep if you have severe back pain?

These questions and others will both test you and educate you on the essential facts you need if you suffer from back pain.

Check it out on the Mayo Clinic Web Site

Neck Pain Eased by Acupuncture

A new review of all the published research shows that treatment with acupuncture will help people suffering neck pain.

Doctors looked at ten different studies with 661 patients all together.

They found that patients who were treated with acupuncture had better pain relief immediately after treatment than those who received dummy treatments, such as laser methods with the machines switched off, or acupuncture with the needles inserted in the wrong places.
The latter two options were used to show that the real acupuncture treatments were having a genuine effect and that pain relief was not simply due to the placebo effect.


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Pregnant Women, Back Pain and Aquarobic Exercises

Doctors in Sweden have found that exercise in water can help ease back pain during pregnancy.

The study looked at two groups of pregnant women. One group did exercises in the pool and another did exercises on land. Those women who did water aerobics once a week reported less low back pain and less time off work.

390 pregnant women took part in the research. Both groups gained benefit from the exercises but the group exercising in water fared better - particularly in respect of time lost from work.

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PRWEB) July 31, 2006

Elmore Oil , the pain relief lotion produced in Australia using 4 natural ingredients has proven to be an effective pain reliever for all forms of arthritis, including osteo-arthritis. Manufactured using a world first process, known as Triple Maturation, the products creator was able to harness the pain relieving and anti-inflammatory properties of natural tea tree oil and eucalyptus oil, yet produce a potent synergystic effect by the unique maturing process he developed.

Ralph Linford has a background in the manufacturing industry and a love of nature and put his knowledge to work to produce Elmore Oil from 4 natural ingredients, but in Australia the product has proven effective in the relief of all forms of joint and muscular pain, even the more difficult osteo-arthritis.

Now with distributors located in Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Czech Republic, Elmore Oil will soon be available throughout Asia and Europe.

Such is the success of Elmore Oil, Australian based Latrobe University will conduct clinical trials to validate the pain relieving and rapid recovery properties of Elmore Oil. In soft tissue injuries Elmore Oil is believed to speed up the recovery time by more than 35%, leading to happier, healthier patients.

Elite sporting clubs and athletes have given the product a tick of approval with high profile Australian hurdler, Kyle Vander Kuyp a keen advocate, along with National cyclist Zak Demspter.

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Joint Pain And Hormone Changes at the Menopause

I've often seen women experience joint pain more often around the time of the menopause. Pains in the hands and the shoudlers seem to be most common but I also see an increase in neck pain or back pain as the hormone levels begin to change and the hot flushes or hot flashes start.

Until now there has been no real science to back up this situation but a new report has shed light on what might be happening.

You can read more about this here but in essence this is what the scientists have found:

• women with the lowest levels of oestrogen just before the start of their menopause are most likely to develop arthritis
• the researchers are not clear yet if the drop in oestrogen is the cause of arthritis or whether the two problems simply happen to arise at around the same stage of a womans life
• overweight women are more likely to develop osteoarthritis and the scientists believe that this is partly due to lower hormone levels and partly due to stress on the joints because of carrying excess weight

New Glucosamine Information

Glucosamine is well known as a treatment for arthritis but new research suggests that it might help stop the formation of new age spots or help fade ones already present.

Dermatologists think that this new glucosamine information might change the way that sun related skin damage is treated.

The information was first released at a conference in Rome in early 2006 and it has generated a lot of interest since.

It seems to work by reducing the amount of melanin in skin cells resulting in less excess pigment in the skin and thus fewer age spots.

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