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Strength training might come at the expense of endurance muscles

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Fitness clubs are booming: New gyms are springing up like mushrooms. More and more people are striving to build up and strengthen their muscles. But what exactly happens in the muscle during training? In their recent work, Prof. Christoph Handschin’s research group at the Biozentrum,… Read More»

Taking care of an ageing spine

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Spinal degeneration can lead to pain in the back or neck, so get it properly diagnosed and managed to avoid unnecessary complications. Out of the 206 bones in the body, 33 are found in the spine, and it stretches all the way from the skull… Read More»

Back pain increases with age

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Back pain doesn’t improve with time. The older we get, the worse it gets without proper treatment. With time, the spine wears down. The different components, the joints, the discs and bones, they all get weaker. Nerve pain is highly unpleasant. With age, discs in… Read More»

Yoga poses a risk to those with osteoporosis

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Yoga postures that flex the spine beyond its limits may raise the risk of compression fractures in people with thinning bones, according to research from Mayo Clinic. The results appear in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Researchers at Mayo Clinic and elsewhere have described injuries from yoga.… Read More»

That feeling in your bones

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Rainy weather has long been blamed for achy joints. Unjustly so, according to new research from Harvard Medical School. The analysis, published Dec. 13 in BMJ, found no relationship between rainfall and joint or back pain. The notion that certain symptoms and weather go hand… Read More»

Sleep affects pain management

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After one night of inadequate sleep, brain activity ramps up in pain-sensing regions while activity is scaled back in areas responsible for modulating how we perceive painful stimuli. This finding, published in JNeurosci, provides the first brain-based explanation for the well-established relationship between sleep and… Read More»

Hello George! Your days of back pain are over

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Osteopath Dr Gerhard van der Merwe has recently opened his Spine Health & Back Pain Centre in George at 2 Forest Road, Heatherlands. Here he treats back pain, musculoskeletal disorders and sports injuries with an integrated approach of physiotherapy, osteopathy, musculoskeletal medicine, exercise physiology and… Read More»

Video-game exercises can reduce chronic low back pain in older people

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New research from University of Sydney has found home-based video-game exercises can reduce chronic low back pain in older people by 27 percent, which is comparable to benefits gained under programs supervised by a physiotherapist. Published in Physical Therapy journal, this first-of-its-kind study investigated the effectiveness… Read More»

Exercises to relieve sciatic pain

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Sciatic pain can stop you in your tracks. If you’re experiencing a flare due a recent or past back injury – or possibly from spinal stenosis or a herniated disk – you know that it can feel like a lightning bolt is running from your… Read More»

Get a good night’s sleep to relieve back pain

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Sleep. It’s one of the most natural and nurturing human activities, and it’s something we all require to keep our minds and bodies functioning properly. But did you know you can actually sleep the WRONG way? Think about the last time you awoke with a… Read More»

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