Understanding Joint Pain

• Joints play a large part in your movement.  
• Joints provide support you while moving.  
• Joints are the connections between your bones.

There are many reasons that would cause joint pain:

1. Osteoarthritis:  Considered the "wear and tear" arthritis.  This happens when you have a previous injury, obesity and age.  Osteoarthritis can affect any joints including the hand, wrist, neck, back, knee and hips.
2. Rheumatoid Arthritis:  Chronic disease, which means long-term.  Often referred to as RA and symptoms may come and go and each person is affected differently.  Joints become inflamed, which is the body's natural response to infection or other threats, but with RA inflammation can happen for unknown reasons.
3. Bursitis:  Bursa is a sac filled with lubricating fluid that is located between tissues such as bone, muscle, tendons and skin that decreases rubbing, friction and irritation.  Bursitis is the inflammation or irritation of the Bursa.
4. Gout:  Type of arthritis that causes a sudden burning pain, stiffness and swelling in a joint.  The most common is the big toe.  Gout is most common in men.

Joint pain can range from irritating to debilitating and can go away in a few weeks or lasts for several months.  

Treatment for joint pain range from medication to physical therapy but it is essential to know what is causing your joint pain, what type of joint pain are you experiencing and what is the best treatment for your situation.  

If you are unsure what is causing your joint pain you need to speak with your Doctor.  If you know and your treatment is not working you need to get a second opinion.  

If you are in Southern Colorado and are experience joint pain I highly recommend Premier Back Rehabilitation Center, PC.  Visit their website to learn more about them.  Please share your story on your joint pain and how you treat it.

Information provided by WebMD

Do I have a cold or allergies?

Runny nose.......
Cough......
Congestion.......

Which is it........a cold?  Or is it Allergies?

It's difficult to tell. 

Colds are caused by a virus:  When one of these viruses gets into your body, your immune system attacks it. Some of the effects of this immune response are the classic symptoms of a cold, such as congestion and coughing.

Allergies are caused by an over active immune system.:  For some reason, your body mistakes harmless substances -- such as dust or pollen -- for germs and attacks them. Your body releases chemicals such as histamine, just as it does when fighting a cold. This can cause swelling in your nasal passages, a runny nose, coughing, and sneezing. Allergies are not contagious, although some people may inherit a tendency to develop them.

information provided by WebMD

Here's the problem.....they pretty much have the same symptoms but the treatment is not the same.  You cannot take cold medicine to relieve allergy symptoms and vice versa.

So what can you do for Allergies?  There is a treatment, Subcutaneous Immunotherapy, that requires you to get weekly shots for THREE years.  Maybe this is why only about 40% of patients ever complete this treatment.  (Dr. Sutton Premier Back Rehabilitation Center)

Luckily there is an alternative to WEEKLY shots:  Sublingual Immunotherapy:  Immunotherapy treats the cause of allergies by giving small doses of what a person is allergic to, which increases “immunity” or tolerance to the allergen and reduces the allergic symptoms. Unlike SCIT – Subcutaneous Immunotherapy, which is given as shots, sublingual immunotherapy is given as drops under the tongue.

How it works:  The first step is to confirm allergies through allergy testing. Then a vial of drops is prepared for the patient. The patient takes drops under the tongue daily. During the first two months, called the “escalation phase,” the dosage is gradually increased. After that, in the “maintenance phase,” the patient takes the same dose of drops each day.

Here is the best part of Sublingual Immunotherapy (drops) vs. Subcutaneous Immunotherapy (shots) and that is the drops cost about $1600.00 LESS per year!!!

Premier Back Rehabilitation Center, PC located in Pueblo Colorado has these shots available.  Like them on Facebook.

Comment on how you treat your allergies.

FREE Vitamin B12 Shots for a YEAR!!!!!!!

Premier Back and Rehabilitation Center wants to know how they have helped you so in return for your story they are giving away one (1) Vitamin B12 shot per month for one (1) year.  

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The Pretty One: A feel good story

No matter what your situation is, no energy, can't sleep, feel tired all the time, allergies......you will always be the "Pretty One" to us.  Premier Back Rehabilitation Center, PC values each and every client and treats them as valuable as this little boys does his new puppy.

This was the last litter of puppies we were going to allow our Cocker Spaniel to have. It had been a very long night for me. Precious, our only black cocker, was having a very difficult time with the delivery of her puppies.

I laid on the floor beside her large four-foot square cage, watching her every movement. Watching and waiting just in case we had to rush her to the veterinarian.

After six hours the puppies started to appear. The first born was a black and white party dog. The second and third puppies were tan and brown in color. The fourth and fifth were also spotted black and white. "One, two, three, four, five," I counted to myself as I walked down the hallway to wake up Judy and tell her that everything was fine. As we walked back down the hallway and into the spare bedroom, I noticed a sixth puppy had been born and was now laying all by itself over to the side of the cage. I picked up the small puppy and laid it on top of the
large pile of puppies, who were whining and trying nurse on the mother.

Instantly Precious pushed the small puppy away from rest of the group and refused to recognize it as a member of her family.

"Something's wrong," said Judy.

I reached over and picked up the puppy. My heart sank inside my chest when I saw the little puppy was hare-lipped and could not close its little mouth. We had gone through this once before last year with another one of our cockers. That experience like to have killed me when the puppy died and I had to bury it. If there was any way to save this animal I was going to give it my best shot.

All the puppies born that night, with the exception of the small hare-lipped pup, were very valuable because of their unusual coloring. Most would bring between five to seven hundred dollars each. The next day I took the puppy to the vet. I was told nothing could be done unless we were willing to spend about a thousand dollars to try and correct the defect. He told us that the puppy would die mainly because it could not suckle.

After returning home Judy and I decided that we could not afford to spend that kind of money without getting some type of assurances from the vet that the puppy had a chance to live. However, that did not stop me from purchasing a syringe and feeding the puppy by hand. Which I did very day and night, every two hours, for more than ten days.

The fifth week I placed an ad in the newspaper, and within a week we had taken deposits on all of the pups, except the one with the deformity. The little guy had learned to eat on his own as long as it was soft canned food.

Late that afternoon I had gone to the store to pick up a few groceries. Upon returning I happened to see the old retired school teacher, who lived across the street from us, waving at me. She had read in the paper that we had puppies for sale and was wondering if she might buy one from us for her grandson. I told her all the puppies had been sold, but I would keep my eyes open for anyone else who might have a cocker spaniel for sale. I also mentioned we never kept a deposit should someone change their mind, and if so I would let her know. Within days all but one of the puppies had been picked up by their new owners. This left me with
one brown and tan cocker as well as the smaller hare-lipped puppy.

Two days passed without me hearing anything from the gentleman, who had placed a deposit on the tan and brown pup. So I telephoned the school teacher and told her I had one puppy left and that she was welcome to come and look at it. She advised me that she was going to pick up her grandson and would come over at about eight o'clock that evening. Judy and I were eating supper when we heard a knock on the front door. When I opened the door, the man, who had placed a $100 deposit on the dog, was standing there. We walked inside where I filled out the paperwork, he paid me the balance of the money, and I handed him the puppy.

Judy and I did not know what to do or say if the teacher showed up with her grandson. Sure enough at exactly eight o'clock the doorbell rang. I opened the door, and there was the school teacher with her grandson standing behind her. I explained to her the man had come for the puppy just an hour before, and there were no puppies left.

"I'm sorry, Jeffery. They sold all the puppies," she told her grandson.

Just at that moment, the small puppy left in the bedroom began to yelp.

"My puppy! My puppy!" yelled the little boy as he ran out from behind his grandmother.

I just about fell over when I saw the small child was hare-lipped. The boy ran past me as fast as he could, down the hallway to where the puppy was still yelping.
When the three of us made it to the bedroom, the small boy was holding the puppy in his arms. He looked up at his grandmother and said, "Look Grandma. They sold all the puppies except the pretty one, and he looks just like me."

Well, old Grandma wasn't the only one with tears in her eyes that day. Judy and I stood there, not knowing what to do.

"Is this puppy for sale?" asked the school teacher.

"My grandma told me these kind of puppies are real expensive and that I have to take real good care of it," said the little boy, who was now hugging the puppy.

"Yes, ma'am. This puppy is for sale."

The lady opened her purse, and I could see several one-hundred dollar bills sticking out of her wallet. I reached over and pushed her hand back down into her purse so that she would not pull her wallet out.

"How much do you think this puppy is worth?" I asked the boy.

"About a dollar?" He replied.

"No. This puppy is very, very expensive... More than a dollar," I told him.

"I'm afraid so." Said his grandmother.

The boy stood there pressing the small puppy against his cheek.

"We could not possibly take less than two dollars for this puppy," Judy said, squeezing my hand. "Like you said, "It's the pretty one." She continued.

The school teacher took out two dollars and handed it to the young boy.

"It's your dog now, Jeffery. You pay the man."

I think it must be a wonderful feeling for any young person to look at their selves into the mirror and see nothing, except "The pretty one."

Want: I feel gooooood? James Brown said it best

• You know you can feel better. 
• You know there is a way to do that. 
• You know you want to feel better. 

Do you need to understand why you feel the way you do?
Do you need some help to feel better?

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We all watch the infomercials.  We all search the net.  We all listen to our well meaning friends.
What would you say if I told you that there really isn't ONE thing that works for EVERYONE?  What would you say if I told you that the infomercial you watched on television that guaranteed that you will feel better or your money back....knows if it doesn't work that very few will actually use that guarantee and get their money back....it's just one more thing you tried that didn't work, right?

Now, what you you say if I told you that you could have PROFESSIONALS, that use the LATEST TECHNOLOGY, that will work with you one on one to achieve your goal of feeling better?  Not through video, cd's, a book that would take years to read.....but face to face!

Premier Back Rehabilation Center, PC is just that place.  Don't let the work "Back" in the name stop you because your back isn't the issue!

If you feel tired.
If you feel "just not right."
If you feel dizzy at times.
If you have trouble sleeping.
If you have trouble waking up.

If your problems are listed...or if you have other issues that aren't...I strongly encourage you to call Premier Back Rehabilitation Center, PC and give them the opportunity to put you here (click the word here)

First Line Therapy......Changing your life, bad habits and being a better YOU!

Ever wanted to make some changes in your life and just never did or never followed through?  Eat healthier, exercise more, reduce stress...the list goes on and on.  Most people fail because they are in it alone.  Most people don't have the "energy" to make any changes.  And....I hate to say this but our family and friends will tend to "discourage" you because they don't have the energy to change.

Does this sound familiar:  First day....Ahh this is easy, second day, ahhh this is easy...by the time the third day on change becomes a "chore." 

Failure of knowing is one of the biggest causes when a person fails at change.  We KNOW we have to eat better and exercise to lose weight, we HEAR and SEE all the different ways to do this but we don't really KNOW.  How is a person supposed to make an informed decision if you don't know. 

I have learned in life you don't have to know...you have to learn.  You can sit down at the computer and do all the research yourself OR you can go to someone you trust who already KNOWS.  Be careful of this.....your friend who ate only carrots and lost weight does not KNOW what YOU need to lose weight. 

• You need to find professionals that are invested in YOU! 
• You need to find professionals that use the most current scientific research.
• You need to find professionals that their concepts are supported by RECENT controlled clinical studies.

I love the saying "why re-invent the wheel" but I'm going to use this in a different concept here...why buy a wheel from someone who builds boxes?  If you TRULY want to change you find the professionals who want the same things for you.  You want the PROFESSIONAL guidance of YOUR health care provider.

Do you often feel tired or have a lack of energy?
Do you have difficulty concentrating?
Are you easily irritated or feel moody?
Do you have trouble sleeping?
Do you wake up feeling unrefreshed?
Do you feel bloated or gain weight easily?
Do you have digestive or intestinal discomfort?
Do you have occasional mild headaches?
Do you feel like you're not healthy as other people your age?

If you answered "yes" to any of the questions above, than a SIMPLE program could help you feel better and have more energy in JUST 10 DAYS!!!

Just answering YES to any of these questions is the FIRST step in changing.  NOW pick up the phone and call Premier Back Rehabilitation Center, P.C. at 719-544-1161 and meet with the PROFESSIONALS that want your sucess as much as you do.  Free Consultations so you meet with REAL PROFESSIONALS face to face (no internet search here) and together you decide what the best approach for you is (no order this cd today and change your life).  At Premier Back Rehabilitation Center, P. C. you are a PERSON not a number and your success is their priority!!

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My Vitamin B12 Shots

I did it.  I posted on facebook last Friday about taking my vitamin B12 shot so it's been a few days:

Anyone who knows me is saying, "Man, Rhonda got a shot that is going to give her more energy.....watch out world."  I have to admit, when I first did this I was worried about "bouncing" off the walls more that I already do.  Let's face it, energy is not really what I lack. 

I want to begin by telling you....I hate shots.  I think I've said this before haven't I?  This one, wasn't anything like I thought it would be.  Hating shots I thought it would be terrible, but, honestly it isn't bad. 

So, I get past the shot.  Alright, waiting for the "bouncing off the walls" and really started to feel sorry for my husband.  I have to say.....it feels "different."  Yesterday I was asked how I felt after my first shot (okay I really need to start calling this an injection because it is nothing like the "shot" I am so used to).  My response.....different. 

Different how?
My energy level is solid.  I don't have "more" energy but I have a steady feeling of "feeling good."  I don't feel like I need a nap at 2:00 PM. 

Another thing, and again let's face it I am a crazy person and go and go and go....and normally I am needing to go to bed around 9:00 PM.  Now, I will be up doing things and realize it's after 10 PM and I'm not "going to drop."

I sleep like a baby.  I have never had problem sleeping, an earthquake couldn't wake me up.  This sleep is different...when I wake I feel rested.  The best way to describe it is I smooth through the night.  I don't sleep "hard,"  I sleep well....and "well" really isn't a good word to describe it but it is a great nights' sleep.

It's been five days...going for my second round Friday.  It's hard to describe but I feel a more "even" feeling throughout the day.  I don't stop and say, I need a nap, I need a break or I'm done for the day. 

I want to also add that I recently "fractured multiple ribs" and although the B12 doesn't help with the pain it sure has made the pain easier to live with.

Stay tuned for more on my journey!

Hurt in a Car Accident? The X-Ray you get can make a difference!!

Fourth of July!  Not only do fireworks go up but so do car accidents!!  Fourth of July is the highest holiday for car accidents and death according to Fox New and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

The X-Ray you have done can make all the difference in your treatment!!

Digital Motion X-Ray makes all the difference to you!!

According to Dr. Sutton, Premier Back Rehabilitation Center, PC:

Digital Motion X-Ray is simply a type of fluoro-based x-ray system, coupled with new digital and optic technology, allowing clinicians to view the spine in real-time motion at 30 x-rays per second. The procedure is performed with the patient standing and actively moving in a weight-bearing position within the system.

DMX is a digital movie of an x-ray in motion and it can be:

* Printed and emailed as "still" x-rays;

* Stored on a hard drive;

* Recorded on DVD.

Traditionally, diagnosis of whiplash injuries rely upon non-moving diagnostic procedures such as static x-rays, stress view x-rays, CT, and MRI. During these tests, patients are asked to stand or lie still: "Don't move" and/or "Hold your breath". Patients hurt more when they move and pain is commonly an indicator of injury. The majority of these non-moving diagnostic tests come out negative or unremarkable.

Watch this video to learn more about Digital Motion X-Ray and this life-saving method

If you or a loved one is involved in a car accident INSIST on Digital Motion X-Ray!! 
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