They can happen while playing a pickup game of basketball, while driving your car to visit friends, or on the job—they’re performance limiting neck and back injuries. What happens when one of these seemingly innocuous activities leads to a severely pulled muscle or a literal pain in the neck, and they cause you to miss work?

When lower back pain stops you from living life the way you want, it’s time to seek expert medical care. Take a look at how Dr. Deuk at Deuk Spine Institute helped Jack Spadaro, an 80-year-young gentleman in Florida get back to his active lifestyle with a simple procedure and no post-operative pain medication. With a little help from Dr. Deuk, people much younger than Jack are amazed at everything he is able to do.

It’s a tough job, but somebody’s got to do it. Even though you risk physical injury and increasing levels of pain to your body every morning that you leave for work, your dedication to your craft remains proudly steadfast.

“I’ll take medical terminology for $400, Alex.”

“Derived from the latin suffix ‘–itis,’ which means inflammation, combined with the term for the joints located at the base of the lower spine called the sacroiliac joints, this relatively common condition causes discomfort, stiffness, and pain in the lower back and buttocks.”  

Recent developments in regenerative medicine are offering a great deal of promise for people looking for an alternative to more traditional procedures related to everything from heart disease and neurological conditions to the restoration of damaged muscles, tendons, and tissues commonly associated with lower back and joint ailments.

Common causes of lower back pain include improper lifting, poor posture, and perhaps the biggest culprit … old age. Any one of these can result in an injury to a lower back muscle, resulting in what’s commonly referred to as a strain. Such a minor injury is likely to go away within a relatively short period of time—usually a few days.

“It’s no fun getting old.” How often do we hear someone in their 50s, and 60s utter those words of despair as they instinctively reach for their lower back in a momentary grimace of agonizing pain? Unfortunately, it’s an all too familiar occurrence because as we age the spine can become more and more cantankerous to deal with. For those with ongoing discomfort, spinal stenosis can be the culprit. Today we review review the best spinal stenosis treatments, so you can get back to enjoying life without grimacing in pain.

Tennis anyone? How about golf, racquetball, or even bowling if the weather’s bad? As we age, most of us make the gradual transition into one of these activities from more rigorous ones like football, basketball, or hockey because they take less of a physical toll on the body, while still providing some of the many health benefits associated with recreational activity.