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by Dr. Scott Van Dam | May 21, 2013 | Health Articles

Have you ever woken up after a full night’s sleep and felt more exhausted than when you went to bed? Of course you have, but what is the difference between good sleep and bad sleep? The difference is in our sleep cycle and most importantly about the REM our brain was able to experience during ...
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by Dr. Scott Van Dam | May 16, 2013 | Health Articles

Today most people know that they “should” be doing regular exercise. However, for the vast majority it has been so many years, if ever, since they did regular exercise that they don’t even know where to begin. This tends to result in an inevitable merry-go-round of various training programs and routines. You probably know exactly ...
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by Dr. Scott Van Dam | May 9, 2013 | Health Articles

Our feet carry us everywhere that we want to go. They come in virtually every size and shape and are thrust into narrow spaces or raised up on four-inch heels to give us height. Victimized by bunions, calluses, plantar warts, and blisters. Subjected to hot sand, hard gravel and stones in the summer and occasionally ...
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by Dr. Scott Van Dam | May 7, 2013 | Health Articles

Over the last few decades the number of total hip and knee replacement surgeries have been rising at an alarming rate. In the United States for total hip and replacement surgeries have increased more than 50% and 170%, respectively. Europe is also seeing similar rises for these procedures with some the northern European countries reporting ...
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by Dr. Scott Van Dam | May 2, 2013 | Health Articles

Fibromyalgia can create many challenges for a person suffering with this disorder. The challenges often go well beyond the typical characteristic of chronic pain. Suffering from chronic pain alone can be debilitating. For a fibromyalgia sufferer just trying to explain all of their locations of pain is often confusing to their doctor and to complicate ...
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by Dr. Scott Van Dam | Apr 30, 2013 | Health Articles

Most people that have experienced this painful condition will call it a "pinched nerve", exclaiming, "it feels like I've pinched a nerve". However, the majority of the time there's a bit more going on!
Between each of the bones of the spine there are a pair of openings, which are individually called the intervertebral foramen or ...
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