Lower Back Pain: Causes and Treatment
Lower back pain is more common than upper back pain and middle back pain. It can develop because you’ve overstretched the muscles and ligaments of your lower back, or overtaxed them while lifting a...
View ArticleKidney Pain: What’s Behind It?
Because kidney pain location is frequently focused in the upper back, it’s easy to mistake kidney pain for upper back pain. But kidney pain isn’t related to muscular issues, or to other causes of back...
View ArticleKidney Failure: Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Your kidneys work as the filters of your bloodstream, removing waste materials and excess substances such as water while retaining things that your body needs, such as red blood cells and proteins....
View ArticleWhat’s Causing Your Middle Back Pain?
Like the upper back, the mid-back region is very stable, and this stability gives it some protection from injury. But the same underlying conditions and circumstances that can result in upper back pain...
View ArticleWhat You Might Not Know About UTIs
Cranberry juice, bidets, probiotics, antibiotics…all claim to prevent or treat urinary tract infections (UTIs). What really works and what’s just fiction? We turn to studies and medical experts for the...
View ArticleUrinary Tract Infections in the Elderly Are Different
UTIs in the elderly are more common than in younger adults. UTIs in elderly women are more common than in men, but both men and women are at higher risk. UTIs in the elderly can cause confusion and...
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