Pain Specialists of Charleston BLOG
Can’t Sit or Stand Without Pain? Gluteal Tendinopathy May Be to Blame
Today’s the day you’ve decided to stop considering “bending for the remote” a form of physical exercise and are ready to get on your feet and get moving!
Maybe you’ll run a marathon, or maybe you’ll finally sign up for that Zumba class in the park – the world is your oyster and you’re ready to start taking advantage of it. But as soon as you make a move to get up, the pain in your hip reminds you why you said no all these years.
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Coping with Nerve Pain Flares at Home
Have you ever experienced the moment as a child when your mom or dad told you not to touch the stove, but your hands somehow found themselves inching closer and closer to the heat source until something in your brain yelled at you to stop before you hurt yourself?
Pain is supposed to be a warning signal our nerves send to the brain when they believe something isn’t quite right. However, if those nerves are damaged, they send signals to our brain that we are experiencing ...
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It’s All in the Legs: Education on Proper Body Mechanics
Sometimes, walking down the yellow brick road of life is not as cheerful and easy as we would like it to be. As much as we would like to imagine ourselves moving with the ease and flexibility of the scarecrow, one wrong bend or lift can have us aching and stuck like the Tin Man.
While we are neither made of tin nor hay, we need to keep our bodies moving like well-oiled machines – and that starts with proper body mechanics.
Body mechanics describes the ...
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10 Ways to Avoid Back Pain on Your Next Summer Road Trip
The kids are out of school, work has slowed down just enough, and that PTO you’ve been holding on to is ready for some TLC – what better way to kick off the official start of summer than with an epic road trip?!
Whether you are prepping the kids for a family-fun adventure or seeking out a solo escape, any adventure can quickly become tainted by burning lower back pain.
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Waking Up with Neck Pain: Saying Sayonara to a Stiff Neck!
As the morning sun begins to creep in through the windows, and the smell of freshly brewed coffee eases its way into your senses, you can’t help but think to yourself, “Today is going to be a good day.”
But all of your thoughts and senses are immediately clouded by a shooting pain in the left side of your neck. Waking up with a stiff and painful neck can be the result of something as simple as your sleeping position or as complex as an underlying cervical spine issue....
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