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How to dodge or deal with winter aches and pains
Whether you suffer from chronic ailments or simply experience the aches, pains and stiffness associated with past injuries or with aging, winter can exacerbate these problems. Plus, there's potential for painful injuries from winter activities. Here's some advice to minimize winter's impact on chronic pain and avoid new pain from injuries.

Uses and Risk Factors of Celebrex
Celebrex was released in the late 1990s alongside Vioxx, which was later banned. Some feel that, due to its side effects and risk factors, Celebrex will also be pulled from the market. It is a COX-2 inhibitor and a subclass of NSAIDS (Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs) that work to treat pain and inflammation. Patients using Celebrex should be aware of the risk factors.

3 Quick and Simple Ways for Athletes to Speed Healing and Improve Performance
ne of the main reasons why most bodybuilders hit a wall and develop injuries is that they don't allow their muscles to recover 100 percent before they work those same muscles again. Ideally, as the body goes through the recovery process, it should lay down nice elastin and collagen tissue. Instead, with insufficient recovery time, it starts to use fibrin, and this is bad. Here are some tips that will allow you to continue to make steady gains, stay healthy, and recover from tendinitis and injuries.

Better Sleep Despite Back Pain
If your first words in the morning are "Oh, my aching back!" instead of "Oh, what a beautiful morning!" you may be among the 85 percent of Americans who, at some time in their lives, suffer from back pain.

Back pain 101
Approximately 80 per cent of Canadians will experience back pain at some point in their lives. Add this to our stressful schedules and work-related back injuries, and we have a virtual back pain epidemic.

What's driving back pain?
Ninety per cent of journeys in North America are made in vehicles. Yet we place little emphasis on our safety and comfort while in them. until pain and discomfort sets in. If you feel stiff or experience back, thigh, or leg pain after a drive, you could be at risk of developing driving-related injuries.

Back health at home and work
If you've ever winced from the pain of a sore back, you're not alone. It's estimated that more than 80 percent of Canadians will experience low back pain at some point in their lives. Back strains account for about one-quarter of all lost-time claims accepted by the Workers' Compensation Board of B.C. (WCB). They are responsible for hundreds of thousands of lost work days each year.

Living with Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia is a pain — literally and figuratively. Not only does the syndrome result in widespread pain, fatigue, sleep disturbances and problems with concentration and memory, but people with fibromyalgia (FM) can spend a lot of time and energy trying to convince others that the pain is real.

How to dodge or deal with winter aches and pains

ow to dodge or deal with winter aches and pains