Sciatic pain usually begins in the lower back and moves down to the legs. Fortunately, there are different ways to relieve sciatic pain, including exercising and spinal decompression therapy.
About the Sciatic Nerve
Sciatic pain is usually debilitating and excruciating. The condition is also common. The sciatic nerve starts from the lower back and moves through the buttocks and hips and down to each leg. The sciatic pain usually follows the sciatic nerve’s path.
Common sciatic pain causes include:
Spinal stenosis
A ruptured disk
Injury
Sciatic pain may also be caused by a condition known as piriformis syndrome. The piriformis muscle usually extends from the buttocks towards the edge of the spine to the top of the thighs. There are …
If you are running a medical practice, you know how many decisions there are to make and how much thought and care goes into each one.
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Types of X-Ray Machines
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Moyiga Nduru
JOHANNESBURG, May 8 2006 (IPS) – As the rape trial of former South African deputy president Jacob Zuma wrapped up Monday with an acquittal for the defendant, calls were sounded for the verdict not to be seen as undermining the fight to curtail rape.
Tomorrow if you go to the Johannesburg court, you ll get six other women waiting for their rape cases to be heard, Dawn Cavanagh of the Johannesburg-based Gender AIDS Forum, a non-governmental organisation, told IPS in front of the city s High Court.
So, the struggle continues.
The judge in the case, Willem van der Merwe, expressed similar sentiments as did members of the tripartite alliance, made up of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), the South African Communist Party, and the Congress o…
Humberto Márquez
CARACAS, May 31 2007 (IPS) – The 150 million smokers in Latin America and the Caribbean are finding it more and more difficult to smoke in public spaces, as a growing list of countries adopt measures aimed at protecting non-smokers from second-hand smoke.
But activists say bans on smoking must be accompanied by consciousness-raising and efforts at persuasion. This is the tendency that civil society has supported the most the route of information, education and awareness-raising, Eva Martínez of Venezuela s Anti-Cancer Society told IPS.
On Thursday, World No Tobacco Day, the Society distributed a poster that shows an ashtray with an office inside it, to support the international smoke-free workplace campaign.
The World Trade Organisation (WTO…
Pavol Stracansky
BELGRADE, Mar 13 2011 (IPS) – Russia and the Ukraine have been warned they are lagging behind the rest of the former Soviet bloc in introducing a simple and inexpensive public health measure that has curbed the incidence of mental disabilities among children across the region.
UNICEF says that the two countries, whose populations are the largest in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS, a grouping of ex-Soviet states) region, are using spurious arguments rooted in business concerns to resist introducing mandatory laws making all edible salt iodised and helping prevent mental retardation in children.
Anatoly Karpov, a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador who has worked extensively in former Soviet Union countries to…
Pavol Stracansky
BEIRUT, Apr 5 2011 (IPS) – A pioneering drug substitution programme in conflict-wracked Afghanistan has been hailed as a resounding success as local doctors and international health organisations battle soaring heroin addiction rates and an HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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Mitch Moxley
BEIJING, May 6 2011 (IPS) – In China, where a growing demand for organ transplants coupled with a dramatic shortage of donors has fuelled a rampant black market trade, selling your organs for cash is a mouse click away.
An Internet search reveals a website offering kidneys for sale and the contact information of those able to procure them. A young woman, posing for IPS as a migrant worker from Hebei province, calls a man who has advertised on the website, identified as Mr. He.
I need money, she says over the phone. Do you want a woman s kidney?
Mr. He asks her age. Twenty-five, she replies.
Of course we want your kidney.
Mr. He tells the woman to travel to Xuzhou city, Jiangsu province, where somebody will be waiting when her t…