Fascia and Pain or Pain and Fascia?

Does Pain Cause Problems in Fascia, or Do Problems in Fascia Cause Pain? “You might attribute a painful neck or a backache to tired muscles or stiff joints. But these symptoms can also be caused by a part of your body you probably haven’t heard of: the fascia. Although fascia looks like one sheet of […]

the latest on centralized pain (central sensitization) as it relates to fibromyalgia and other chronic illnesses including autoimmunity

Dr. Don Goldenberg is not only currently a Rheumatologist and Professor Emeritus at Oregon’s University of Portland, over the past three decades he’s treated over 25,000 patients at his Boston clinic, where his specialty was FIBROMYALGIA and the cluster of symptoms that hover around it like flies swarming around an August roadkill (ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, CHRONIC […]

the very latest research on whiplash & chronic neck pain

Whiplash Injuries

CHRONIC NECK PAIN: WHAT DOES THE LATEST SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE SAY? The statistics on WHIPLASH are frightening.  As you’ll see again today, study after study show that 50% of those injured in a whiplash-type accident end up with chronic WAD — Whiplash Associated Disorders — pain and dysfunction that never completely go away.  The majority of […]

chronic neck pain by the numbers: the very latest research on neck pain

Chronic Neck Pain

CHRONIC NECK PAIN ACCORDING TO THE LATEST RESEARCH  A study from May’s issue of Medicine (Trends in Diagnosis of Painful Neck and Back Conditions…) said this about CHRONIC NECK PAIN.  “In a national population, the prevalence rate for diagnosis of neck and back pain grew 1.8 to 2.3 times faster than the incidence rate. This […]