Tag Archives: pain-or-neck

Back Pain Rating Tool – Recording Intensity of Back Pain with the Oucher or Face

By admin | Published: September 18, 2010

The Oucher or Faces scale is used to help patients record and communicate the intensity of their back pain symptoms and their neck pain symptoms. Using the Oucher to record the intensity of back pain or neck pain is a matter of choosing the face with the emotion that bests matches your own when you feel your back pain or neck pain.

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Herniated Disc Symptoms

By admin | Published: September 6, 2010

Herniated disc symptoms are more than back pain or neck pain. Symptoms of herniated disk are called radiculopathy when the herniated disc presses on a spinal nerve root. Learn more about symptoms of herniated disc.

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Discogenic Pain

By jorge | Published: August 21, 2010

Disocgenic pain is back pain or neck pain that originates from interverbal disks. Learn about discogenic back pain including causes of this type of back pain as well as symptoms, risks and treatments.

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Diagnosing Back and Neck Pain

By jorge | Published: April 16, 2010

Getting a medical diagnosis for back pain or neck pain requires you accurate report your back or neck pain symptoms to your medical doctor. Doctors use the medical history, a physical exam and sometimes imaging or lab tests to come up with a diagnosis for your back or neck.

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Taking Motrin

By shervin | Published: April 10, 2010

If you need an over-the-counter medication for back pain or neck pain, you may think of ibuprofen. Ibuprofen comes in brand and generic form over the counter, and as a prescription, too

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Back Pain Rating Tool – Recording Intensity of Back Pain with the Visual Analog

By melissa | Published: April 7, 2010

The Visual Analog Scale or VAS is used to help patients record and communicate the intensity of their back pain symptoms and their neck pain symptoms. Using the VAS to record the intensity of back pain or neck pain is a matter of making a visual mark to represent where your back pain symptoms are on a continuum from no pain to unbearable pain.

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What is Back Surgery?

By jorge | Published: April 5, 2010

Back surgery is one of the last resort treatments for back pain or neck pain. Many experts even go so far to say that there are too many back surgeries done in the United States, and that patients with chronic low back pain may not need the back surgeries their doctors recommend.

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Symptoms of Back Pain

By admin | Published: April 4, 2010

Pain patterns and your ability to function when you have back pain or neck pain are important symptoms. It is important to tell you doctor about the pattern of pain you experience, along with any disruption of function your back or neck pain inflicts on you.

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What to do When You Have Neck or Back Pain Quiz

By shervin | Published: March 30, 2010

Do you know what you are supposed to do when you get back pain? Should you go see a doctor, like a spine specialist

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