While there are many conservative treatments for back pain, one of the most common is heat therapy.

If you’re facing back or neck pain, two of the most popular home remedies for these conditions are hot and cold therapy. Here are some tips on how to make your own gel ice or moist heat packs.

If you’re living with sciatic pain, massage therapy may be a great option. While it’s not a cure for this condition, it can ease your discomfort and improve your overall quality of life.

Safety first: Read about the steps of RICE and why they’re important.

Herbal medicine provides alternatives to drugs for pain management. However, just like traditional pain relievers, herbal remedies also have their down sides.

A pinched nerve can occur anywhere in the spine: neck (cervical spine), mid back (thoracic spine), and low back (lumbar spine). From the anatomy stand point, we called “foraminal stenosis” where the nerve gets pinched in the neuro-foramen or the hole that the nerves leaving the spine. From the clinical Read more…

The degenerative disc is believed to be a natural process when we are getting older. The disc is the “cushion” between the bone and the surrounding by a capsule. This is probably the most common cause of back pain. When we are getting mature (as I hate to say we Read more…

Spinal stenosis means narrowing of the spinal canal and therefore the is not enough signal down the nerve that running to your arms or legs. The most common lumbar stenosis symptom is difficult to walk and limited walking distance(a medical term called neurogenic claudication) as the legs and feet do Read more…

It is important to understand what the sciatica is and what causes sciatica. The most common cause is herniated disc. The good news is that this usually gets better over time and with non-surgical treatments. The bad news is some patients state that “sciatica is worse than having a child-birth”. Read more…