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Posts by George W Kukurin DC DACAN
Commonly whenever surgery does not work out and nerve fibres are damaged, a spinal cord stimulator is proposed to patients for pain relief. These types of stimulators are actually similar to the pacer makers used to keep the heart in tempo. However rather than attaching the device to your heart, the device is connected to the dorsal column of the spinal cord. This element of the spinal cord, the dorsal...
8/2/2013 4:44:38 AM
Pharmocognosy is the study of the pharmacology of natural substances. Most synthetic prescription drugs are synthetic reformulations of natural occurring compounds. To understand how medications work and provide possible alternatives to them, we need a quick lesson of two chemicals within the nervous system that become abnormal when a nerve gets damaged or injured. To help you to understand this complex...
7/16/2013 5:12:25 PM
The nervous system entails the brain, spinal cord and all the wire-like peripheral nerves. For proper bodily function, information about the state of almost every body part is transmitted by way of the peripheral nerves through the spinal cord to the brain for appraisal and processing. Once processed the brain sends signals back down through the spine out through the peripheral nerves and makes adjustments...
7/2/2013 3:02:46 AM
Many people with back, hip oR leg pain think they have sciatica. Although in common, use the term sciatica is actually old and out dated. Sciatica refers to back pain that radiates down the buttocks hip and leg. It can include numbness tingling and other sensations. In severe cases weakness of the leg muscles may also be present. But the truth is what people call sciatica is in reality a symptom of...
1/26/2013 5:26:38 PM
Integrative neurology combines the knowledge of medical neurology (the study of the brain and nerves) with complimentary techniques like acupuncture, chiropractic and herbal therapies. It doesn't seem to make sense, going to a neurologist for a bladder problem. These conditions are normally treated by a urology specialist not an integrative neurologist. Sometimes the urologist gives the "all clear",...
5/4/2010 7:48:55 AM
The combination of alternative and complimentary medical techniques, like acupuncture and chiropractic with the traditional medical specialty of neurology, is called Integrative Neurology. Pain or numbness in the feet, legs, hip and back occurs frequently and there are a number of reasons for it. The most common are spinal stenosis, sciatica, pinched nerves and neuropathy. Despite billions of dollars...
4/19/2010 1:01:04 PM
Frequently my waiting room looks like a bad B-Movie. There are all sorts of poor souls, barely able to walk. Glazed look on their faces from the heavy doses of medications they use to try to quell their nerve pain. My office is most often the last stop on the train for these folks. By the time they rearch my office they have been just about everywhere else. A family member usually needs to carry their...
4/15/2010 6:54:53 AM
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