Thrive for Life

In this month's issue we’re going to talk about a topic in which there is surprisingly little written... the duration and frequency of treatment for whiplash injuries.While many individual authors have published recommendations based upon personal and or clinical experience, and a small number of good solid studies have in fact been published.... the primary focus [..]

On January 28, 1993, the New England Journal of Medicine published:Unconventional Medicine in the United States Prevalence, Costs, and Patterns of UseKey Points from the abstract of this article include:1) Many people use unconventional therapies for health problems, but the extent of this use and the costs are not known. The authors conducted a national survey [..]

In this months issue we are going to detail the most recent, comprehensive, and authoritative Clinical Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Low Back Pain.These guidelines were published in the October 2007 issue of the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.An extensive panel of remarkably qualified experts constructed these clinical practice guidelines.These experts performed a review [..]

The Potential Pitfalls Of Clinical Joint Immobilization Back in 1984, orthopedic surgeon Sir James Cyriax, MD, reviewed The Concept Of Motion in his Textbook of Orthopaedic Medicine, Diagnosis of Soft Tissue Lesions (1). In this text, Dr. Cyriax carefully noted that harmful infections create tissue destruction, resulting in inflammation. A current prevailing concept in explaining [..]