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What is a Physiatrist?

What is a Physiatrist?

Sep 10, 2020

Physiatrists, or rehabilitation physicians, are nerve, muscle, and bone experts who treat injuries or illnesses that affect how you move and function. Physiatrists are medical doctors who have completed training in the medical specialty...

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The Healing Art of Jin Shin Jyutsu

The Healing Art of Jin Shin Jyutsu

Sep 10, 2020

The Healing Art of Jin Shin Jyutsu The body contains energy pathways that feed life into all of the cells. When one or more of these pathways become blocked, the effect can lead to discomfort, pain, illness and injury.

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Risk of Osteoarthritis Linked to Finger Length Ratio

Risk of Osteoarthritis Linked to Finger Length Ratio

Sep 10, 2020

The University of Nottingham located in the United Kingdom published a study in 2008 which looked at the role that the length of people’s fingers may play in predicting osteoarthritis.

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Norco and Vicodin Can No Longer Be Called in or Faxed

Norco and Vicodin Can No Longer Be Called in or Faxed

Sep 10, 2020

DEA Reclassifies Hydrocodone Combination Products to Schedule II On August 22, 2014, the U. S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) published the Final Rule moving hydrocodone combination products (HCPs)...

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1 in 3 American Adults Experience Chronic Pain

1 in 3 American Adults Experience Chronic Pain

Sep 10, 2020

An estimated 116 million adults experience chronic pain, according to a report published by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, and treatment is all too often “delayed, inaccessible, or inadequate…”...

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Exercise is Key to Preventing Back Pain Recurrence

Exercise is Key to Preventing Back Pain Recurrence

Sep 10, 2020

Most people in the Western world will suffer from disruptive lower back pain at some point in their lives. And studies show that about 75% of people who’ve had one bout of debilitating back pain will have another within a year...

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If You are on Opioids, You Should Know your Morphine Equivalent Dose, by Vinay M. Reddy, M.D.

If You are on Opioids, You Should Know your Morphine Equivalent Dose, by Vinay M. Reddy, M.D.

Sep 10, 2020

Morphine Equivalent Dose (MED), also known as Morphine Milligram Equivalents (MME) is a numerical way to compare different opioids (narcotics). For example, if person A is on 4 tablets of Norco (hydrocodone/acetaminophen) 10/325...

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Opioids Dependence Rates Higher than Initially Thought

Opioids Dependence Rates Higher than Initially Thought

Sep 10, 2020

For years we have known that opioids (drugs such as Norco, percocet, oxycontin, morphine, fentanyl, etc.) are dangerous. They can lead to dependence and addiction. They can often also lead to overdose and death.

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Drug Overdose Deaths Plateau In California, Soar Nationally

Drug Overdose Deaths Plateau In California, Soar Nationally

Sep 10, 2020

Please click on this link for this article by Pauline Bartolone. Drug Overdose Deaths Plateau In California, Soar Nationally

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Acupuncture For Chronic Pain

Acupuncture For Chronic Pain

Sep 10, 2020

I recently reviewed a report on acupuncture for chronic pain. It reviewed 13 clinical randomized trials that occurred up until December 2015 and included over 20,000 patients.

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Sacramento Opioid Awareness Summit

Sacramento Opioid Awareness Summit

Sep 10, 2020

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New California Law Requires Providers to Prescribe Overdose Reversing Drug Naloxone

New California Law Requires Providers to Prescribe Overdose Reversing Drug Naloxone

Sep 10, 2020

California Assembly Bill 2760 went into effect on January 1, 2019. That bill requires providers to offer a prescription for the overdose reversing drug, naloxone, when the following conditions are present...

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Are Your Joints Aching More This Winter? You’re Not Alone!

Are Your Joints Aching More This Winter? You’re Not Alone!

Sep 10, 2020

This cold weather that we’re experiencing here in the Sacramento Valley (which we know doesn’t compare to the cold around the country ) is bringing in more patients complaining of aching joints.

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Build Strength During the Coronavirus Outbreak With ‘Prehabilitation’

Build Strength During the Coronavirus Outbreak With ‘Prehabilitation’

Sep 10, 2020

As the new coronavirus spreads throughout the U.S., federal officials are urging Americans to stay home as much as possible to reduce their chances of getting sick from COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the virus.

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Elk Grove, CA 95758

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Folsom, CA 95630

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Granite Bay, CA 95746

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Roseville, CA 95661

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Sacramento, CA 95834

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