by Dr. Scott Van Dam | Aug 9, 2016 | Health Articles
Fall sports season is here!
Whether you are a youth player, weekend warrior, or a professional athlete, you can be injured playing any sport. Injuries are caused by a variety of factors including accidents, poor conditioning or training practices, not wearing proper protective equipment or an inadequate warm-up. Some of the most frequent sports injuries include ...
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by Dr. Scott Van Dam | Aug 8, 2016 | Newsletters
Included in this month’s issue…
Low Back Pain
After upper-respiratory infections, back pain is the second most common reason for visiting a doctor. It will affect 80% of us at some point in our lives, and half of all adults are estimated to suffer this every single year, with over 10% of people suffering ongoing bouts of ...
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by Dr. Scott Van Dam | Aug 4, 2016 | Zed
by Dr. Scott Van Dam | Aug 2, 2016 | Health Articles
The human body is one of the most amazing machines on Earth. It is designed to be self-sustaining as it is constantly making repairs and with proper nerve flow regenerating new healthy cells.
Our bodies mass are almost 99% made up of six elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. With water being the most ...
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by Dr. Scott Van Dam | Jul 28, 2016 | Zed
by Dr. Scott Van Dam | Jul 26, 2016 | Health Articles
The summer season is fully here! As we are enjoying the warm weather, barbecues and the excitement of pre-Olympic warm-ups, are you feeling red with anger, white with pain, and blue with being sidelined with low back and leg pain?
If so, read on.
First Understanding Sciatic Nerve Pain
Your sciatic nerve is the longest and widest nerve ...
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by Dr. Scott Van Dam | Jul 21, 2016 | Zed
by Dr. Scott Van Dam | Jul 19, 2016 | Health Articles
Most of us all love summer and vacations at the lake or ocean. We all relish the great memories we created as children. Unfortunately, many of us try to recapture our youth without hesitation with spontaneous water fights, being first to show off how well we "used" to water ski, or even go and jump ...
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by Dr. Scott Van Dam | Jul 14, 2016 | Zed
by Dr. Scott Van Dam | Jul 12, 2016 | Health Articles
Are you feeling stressed-out? Run down? Exhausted? What choices are you making? When is now important enough?
We all promise to take a vacation from our busy lifestyles and unplug, but many of us still bring our computers, phones, and work with us on "our" vacations. It is not until an injury or illness strikes for ...
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