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According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, a headache is the most common form of pain and a leading cause of missed work and school. In fact, the World Health Organization estimates that half of all adults experience at least one headache each year. Not all headaches...
If you exercise regularly, play amatuer or organized sports, or participate in any type of routine fitness activity, you’re at risk for a specific type of musculoskeletal condition called a sports injury. You’re more prone to these type of injuries if you: Overtrain Fail to warm up before you exercise...
If you have neck pain after a car wreck, sports injury, or other type of accident, it’s possible that you experienced a whiplash injury. Research shows that 50% of people who suffer this type of neck condition develop chronic symptoms. In fact, whiplash is a common cause of disability and...
Do you have lower back pain that shoots down your legs? If so, it’s likely that you have sciatica. Sciatica is actually quite common, with 10%-40% of the population experiencing the condition. The integrative medical team at BodyWorks Medical Center in Carol Stream, Illinois, is here to cover all of...
Did you know that more than 9% of people in the US have diabetes? Of those, most have type 2 diabetes, which is an illness that impairs your body’s ability to process insulin and manage your blood sugar. At Bodyworks Medical Center, we know just how much regular physical therapy...
More than just a tension headache, a migraine headache is debilitating and disruptive. If you get migraines, you know the agony they cause, and you’ve likely tried just about everything to get rid of it. Our team of specialists at BodyWorks Medical Center can help. We work with migraine patients...
Back pain is a normal part of nearly everyone’s life at some point in time. In fact, about 80% of Americans will deal with back pain, either acute or chronic, during their lives. But, is back pain normal and inevitable after your 50th birthday — a time when many adults...
You spend hours texting on your smartphone, playing Candy Crush on your tablet, and working at your computer. It’s no wonder that your neck aches. You may have what’s called “tech neck.” And even though it’s a funny name, tech neck is no laughing matter to the medical professionals at...
A migraine is much more than a garden variety headache. It’s a sensory event that can even be accompanied by harbingers that indicate serious pain and discomfort in your near future. Migraine pain can be so severe and disorienting that it makes you take to your bed and draw the...
If you have chronic muscular or joint pain from a medical condition or old injury, or acute pain from a recent trauma, your doctor may recommend physical rehabilitation to help relieve the pain and restore your range of motion. At BodyWorks Medical Center, our team uses physical rehabilitation techniques as...
Neck pain can significantly disrupt your life and make it difficult — if not impossible at times — to do normal, everyday tasks. While neck pain may go away on its own, almost 50% of people who experience neck pain find that it returns either sporadically or as a chronic...
Some six million automobile accidents happen each year in the United States, which cause an estimated 2.6 million injuries. If you’re among these individuals, scheduling an exam as early as possible after the incident is important. Because symptoms such as pain are often delayed, chiropractic care, in particular, may bring...