With the holiday season coming to an end, many of you are making plans to shed some pounds in the new year. When you are trying to lose weight, the first thing you should know is that it's a lot easier to consume a calorie than to burn it off. So your first priority should be your diet - as in staying away from meals like these. Once you have a proper diet, the next step is exercise. Most people assume that the best way to burn calories is to do lots of cardio. But you might

We've all had an event in our lives when we've suffered a physical injury but delayed getting treatment for it. We might have been too busy with work, or maybe hoped it would heal on its own. Waiting can be risky however, as the presence of one injury could lead to others. Let's say that you were playing basketball and twisted your ankle. Now you have a pain in your ankle every time you take a step. Such a pain is bound to change your gate, or how you walk, as your body autom

Do you have a literal pain in the butt? If so, you might be suffering from piriformis syndrome, a type of sciatic pain cause by when the piriformis muscle gets shortened or goes into spasm, putting pressure on the sciatic nerve. The piriformis is a muscle deep inside the group of muscles that make up your butt, one that helps lock down the hip joint for walking and mobilize it for virtually all lower body activities. If injured or overused it may tighten too much, putting pre

Do me a favor and close your eyes after reading this paragraph. Feel the area in your upper back as well as the back of your neck. Does it feel tight or strained? Now raise your head until you are looking straight ahead. Does that feel better? Whether you are reading this on a smartphone, tablet or the screen of your desktop computer, odds are you are putting needless pressure on your neck by looking down. In recent years we have seen an increase in patients with neck issues