Pain Specialists of Charleston BLOG
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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A Medical Massage Menagerie: A Complete Guide to Non-Surgical Pain Management
Between a knot in your neck from a rough night’s rest to tension in your back from your workout classes, you may believe that the answers lie in over-the-counter pain medications and sheer hope it will subside.
However, what if we told you there was another way to ease muscle tension and provide you with much-needed mental relaxation – all without a visit to the drugstore?
Medical massage therapy offers an alternative form of healing and pain relief that ...
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