by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 22, 2013 | Joints & Bones
Your choices for treatment of back pain are surgery, steroid injections, pain medications, exercise strengthening and stretching programs, or techniques that place external force on the back such as deep massage, manipulation and passive stretching. Because surgery...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 22, 2013 | Joints & Bones
When all the cartilage in your knee is gone, the only effective treatment is to replace the whole knee. The ends of bones are soft, so they must be covered with a thick white gristle called cartilage. Once damaged, cartilage can never heal or re-grow. Small holes in...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 22, 2013 | Joints & Bones
A diet loaded with cooked vegetables and olive oil helps to reduce the pain, swelling and discomfort of rheumatoid arthritis, according to a study from Harvard School of Public Health. Before this study, there was no really good evidence that diet had anything to do...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 22, 2013 | Joints & Bones
If your back is stiff and hurts when you move, if it hurts to touch two points at the side of the top of your pelvis where it joins your spine (the sacroiliac joint), and if your back x ray shows signs of this disease, you probably suffer from ankylosing spondylitis....
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 29, 2013 | Joints & Bones
A study from Springfield College in Massachusetts showed that T’ai Chi is an ideal exercise for a person with arthritis (Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2000, Vol 48, Iss 12, pp 1553-1559). The ends of bones where they come together at joints are...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 29, 2013 | Joints & Bones
One in ten North Americans suffers from osteoarthritis or degenerative arthritis, a disease in which the currently-used medications, acetaminophen, aspirin and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs, do not slow or reverse the progressive destruction of joints and no...
