What are the major causes of hip pain? They are Arthritis, Avascular Necrosis, Hip Pain Strain, and Back Pain. There are stretches and hip pain exercises that you can do every day to decrease your hip pain and strengthen your hip muscles.

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Pilates is well known these days and certainly many of today’s celebrities are keen Pilates exercisers. Such celebrities often visit Pilates classes to keep in shape and we can see this from their toned bodies that grace the cover of magazines. Celebrities love Pilates as it works on strength and balance and is a low impact and highly achievable form of exercise.

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Irritability of inflamed or injured facet joints is high in terms of easily and quickly flaring up into pain when subject to unusual stresses, but then later can react badly even to normal stresses. The typical symptoms are local tenderness and aching throughout the neck, across the shoulder blades, over the neck/shoulder area and upper arms. All this pain can cause the muscles to go into spasm which compounds the problem by facet joint compression with consequent enhancement of the pain and joint forces. Some patients have severe neck muscle spasm which presents as tight, hard muscles.

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Our necks are our spines continuing above shoulder level so that our head can be supported and facilitated in its job. The neck is beautifully designed and engineered and performs its highly complex functions automatically without us having to give them any thought. Our heads are very heavy and placed on top of the lever which is the neck, however we can move them or stop moving them very quickly, positioning them at a very specific point within the large ranges of movement the neck can perform. The ears and eyes, some of our most vital organs of sensory input, are placed on the head and the neck has to serve their needs.

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Every bone in your body plays a vital role in your health. When bones, muscles, or tendons are disturbed it can lead to serious back problems. This can include slipped herniated disks, a broken back, or fractures. Back pain can be triggered by a number of situations such as overexertion and poor alignment when performing day to day activities.

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Most of the patients I see on a daily basis have suffered from lower back or neck pain for many months to many years.

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You may be familiar with the picture, either personally or from a story somebody told you. A young man goes out for the evening, all dressed up and smelling of aftershave. He meets his mates in the pub and has a few beers, starting off the process of intoxication which continues most of the night. After the pub there is the nightclub and more drinking until it’s time to roll out and round to the kebab house to have a snack. After a bit more hanging about he goes home or to one of his mates’ houses to watch television, chat and perhaps drink a little more.

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After a few years of not looking after your body, eating lots of rich meats and drinking to much beer, there is a good chance that your body will have accumulated enough uric acid crystals for your first experience of gout.

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It is a common scenario played out in every city and town in the land on Friday and Saturday nights. After getting showered, aftershaved and dressed up the young guy goes out to meet his mates in a pub he typically frequents. He starts the drinking which will continue for the next five or six hours at least as he has a few pints with his friends and then follows them into the nightclub until early in the morning. Leaving there they are all hungry so they go round to the take-away and have a kebab, heading to the one of their houses to watch a film, plus a few more drinks.

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At the neck the spine becomes exposed above the level of the shoulders in order to render head support and allow us to function better. Highly sophisticated and with a complex design, the neck functions smoothly underneath without us having to consider it. The neck is an extended lever on top of which is placed the heavy head, but even then we can begin and end head movements with some speed and with very great placement accuracy. It’s very important for us to get accurate information from our most useful sensory organs such as the eyes and ears and the neck allows placement of the head in the optimal positions for this.

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