It is well known: sleep is essential for both mental and physical recovery. In spite of this, there are people who go to bed without feeling any discomfort, but who, when they wake up, experience symptoms in the spinal column. Then there are all those people who already suffer from back pain and who experience a worsening of symptoms in …
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Last week in Rome, on 14 and 15 October, a very interesting event took place under the patronage of CONI and its Institute of Sports Medicine and Science. Tennis & Friends 2023 saw the participation of numerous personalities from the world of politics and sport, and the main focus is summed up very effectively by the title given to the …
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Very often we find ourselves ‘enduring’ pain that we should instead be analysing together with a specialist. Pain in the upper and middle back is very common. Let’s try to understand what it depends on and what we can do to alleviate it.The thoracic spine is the longest section of the spinal column, with twelve thoracic vertebrae. It is the …
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Let’s take a look at what lumbar scoliosis is, what the most prominent symptoms are, and how to arrive at a diagnosis and the subsequent treatment phase. Lumbar scoliosis is a complex lateral deviation of the spine, with associated rotation of the vertebrae in the lumbar region, and most frequently manifests as a convex left. The course of treatment can …
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We are in the middle of summer and the most effective remedy we all know to combat the great heat is always the same: turn on the air conditioned. At home, at work, in the car. And the contrast between the heat (and our sweaty bodies) and the cold air can be harmful. Those who suffer from cervical pain know …
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A problem, that of cervical pain, which affects a very high number of women during pregnancy. The body undergoes great changes in nine months that bring discomfort and pain. Let’s find out how we can cure or prevent cervical pain. What are the causes of cervical pain in pregnancy? As we have already mentioned, a woman’s body undergoes many changes …
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Acute lumbago is almost always caused (nine times out of ten) by muscle strains and contractures. Injuries that can occur either by practising sport or by performing daily activities, activities that involve lifting weights or continuous rotational movements of the trunk. Actually, sedentariness (and therefore lack of training) can also be the cause of frequent back pain. But there can …
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In recent years, technology has enabled us not only to perfect our working methods, our approach to diagnosis, but also to take important steps towards patient care and patient protection. We know this well, every action has a consequence and this often applies to the world of medicine as well. So when we take a medicine, the main focus is …
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Pain is very often associated with winter, with cold. But this is not always the case. Very often it is during the warmer times of the year that certain pains are accentuated. Even back pain. It is no coincidence that low back pain increases precisely in the summer. The causes, of course, are many, but they can all be traced …
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A few days ago, a very interesting study on the combined non-invasive method of assessing correct posture was published in the pages of the journal Scientific Reports (title: Thermography and rasterstereography as a combined infrared method to assess the posture of healthy individuals). A study conducted by an interdisciplinary group at the University of Catania, coordinated by Prof. Giuseppe Musumeci …
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