We hear a lot about carpal tunnel nowadays. The increase in computer use and texting in our everyday lives has this and other repetitive stress injuries (RSI) on the rise. In fact, not only has the number of computer users increased from 5 million to 50 million in the past […]
Bone spurs are something we run into from time to time, with clients who have sustained repetitive aggravation from an injury. This pointed outgrowth of bone, is most often caused by inflammation. Inflammation can encourage cells to deposit bone, eventually causing the formation of a spur. For example, inflammation of […]
What is a muscle spasm? It’s an involuntary contraction of the muscle that is usually quite painful and which occurs suddenly and resolves just as quickly. Different than a twitching muscle, which is an uncontrolled movement of the muscle visible beneath the skin, spasms occur for a variety of reasons: […]