I was no stranger to back pain. In my early forties, I had three episodes of severe lumbar pain, lasting several weeks each. Lumbar is just the word doctors use for “low back.” An MRI showed ...

In my last blog, Life Lessons Learned from Being Temporarily Disabled, I promised to disclose what I learned about sex from being temporarily disabled. It is with some trepidation that I now fulfill ...

Mrs. Tandy first presented as a well-dressed, meticulously groomed 76-year-old woman. Her response to the question, "What brings you here today?" was very telling of her personality. Well...my feet ...

Ms. B, a 44-year-old, left-handed welder, was referred to our occupational medicine clinic by a local ER for follow-up treatment. Three days earlier, a loose thermocouple in her welding apparatus ...

You never forget the first time a doctor gives up: when they tell you that they don’t know what to do—they have no further tests to run, no treatments to offer—and that you’re on your own. It happened ...

Try these all-natural ways to treat what ails you. Chronic pain affects 116 million American adults. That's more than a third of the U.S. population. \ While pain pills reduce suffering, they can be ...