by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 22, 2013 | Joints & Bones
If you suffer from severe back pain and your doctor has not found a cause, ask him or her if you need a bone density test to determine if you have osteoporosis. All women and most men will suffer osteoporosis if they live long enough. Your bones are strongest in your...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 22, 2013 | Joints & Bones
Manipulation is as effective as everything else that a medical doctor has to offer to treat low-back pain, yet many doctors criticize osteopaths and chiropractors for using manipulation. An article in the New England Journal of Medicine (November 4, 1999) showed that...
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....
