Chronic back pain is a very important and costly condition in advanced industrial societies which is the chief cause of limitation of physical function in younger people under 45. The definition of chronic is variable and can be taken to be a pain persisting beyond the expected healing time of the tissues which may have been damaged in the acute back pain event. This is often taken to be beyond twelve weeks as much of the soft tissue healing will have occurred at that point. Acute pain serves a biological purpose to warn us to stop doing the aggravating activity and to take care of the injured part, however chronic pain appears to have no …

I’ve recently been working with a client who was in a near fatal head-on bicycle accident. At the emergency room, the doctors diagnosed him with a concussion, told him to take it easy and reassured him he could return to work. He followed their advice.
However, he soon realized that the stress of deadlines, the need to think on his feet, the pace of work and life – things which he handled easily before – were now too much for him. He developed severe headaches, migraines, extreme fatigue, and a lack of emotional well-being. For someone used to handling a very active lifestyle and a demanding job, he found himself at a loss. In the wake …

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the United States and there are dozens of treatments and therapies designed to cure or remove the disease.
Each year, the American Cancer Society estimates the number of new cancer cases and deaths expected in the United States in the current year and compiles the most recent data on cancer incidence, mortality, and survival based on incidence data from the National Cancer Institute, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries and mortality data from the National Center for Health Statistics. Incidence and death rates are age-standardized to the 2000 US standard million population. A total of 1,437,180 new …