What is a Physiatrist?Sep 10, 2020Physiatrists, 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...Continue reading →
The Healing Art of Jin Shin JyutsuSep 10, 2020The 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.Continue reading →
Risk of Osteoarthritis Linked to Finger Length RatioSep 10, 2020The 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.Continue reading →
Norco and Vicodin Can No Longer Be Called in or FaxedSep 10, 2020DEA 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)...Continue reading →
1 in 3 American Adults Experience Chronic PainSep 10, 2020An 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…”...Continue reading →
Exercise is Key to Preventing Back Pain RecurrenceSep 10, 2020Most 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...Continue reading →
If You are on Opioids, You Should Know your Morphine Equivalent Dose, by Vinay M. Reddy, M.D.Sep 10, 2020Morphine 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...Continue reading →
Opioids Dependence Rates Higher than Initially ThoughtSep 10, 2020For 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.Continue reading →
Drug Overdose Deaths Plateau In California, Soar NationallySep 10, 2020Please click on this link for this article by Pauline Bartolone. Drug Overdose Deaths Plateau In California, Soar NationallyContinue reading →
Acupuncture For Chronic PainSep 10, 2020I 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.Continue reading →
Sacramento Opioid Awareness SummitSep 10, 2020The body content of your post goes here. To edit this text, click on it and delete this default text and start typing your own or paste your own from a different source.Continue reading →
New California Law Requires Providers to Prescribe Overdose Reversing Drug NaloxoneSep 10, 2020California 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...Continue reading →
Are Your Joints Aching More This Winter? You’re Not Alone!Sep 10, 2020This 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.Continue reading →
Build Strength During the Coronavirus Outbreak With ‘Prehabilitation’Sep 10, 2020As 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.Continue reading →