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Knowing How to Find the Right Spine Specialist
July 23, 2024
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When your pain has gotten bad enough that it’s time get help, choosing the right spine specialist is crucial. But what are the ways to know you’ve found...
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10 Best Ways to Treat Back Pain
July 23, 2024
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Back pain is an all-too-common phenomenon, but it does not always have to be quite such a serious disruption to your day. Many individuals don’t realize...
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What You Need to Know About Sciatica
July 23, 2024
06 min read
If you have been dealing with pain that radiates from your lower back down through your leg, you may be dealing with a condition known as sciatica. In...
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What happens when a herniated disc goes untreated? | Long Island Spine Specialists
July 23, 2024
06 min read
A herniated disc is a common but treatable source of back pain. Increased pressure on the spine causes the gel-like center of the disc to seep out through...
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Medical Service
5 Neck Stretches to Help Alleviate Neck Pain
July 23, 2024
06 min read
Have you been sitting at a desk looking at a computer screen for days on end? Or are you often looking down at your phone? Do you sit hunched over a device...
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Medical Service
How a Standing Desk can Help Alleviate Back Pain
July 23, 2024
06 min read
How a Standing Desk Can Help Alleviate Back PainToday, most jobs require a lot of desk time, leaving you sitting in front of a computer or in meetings...
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What To Know About Interventional Pain Management
July 23, 2024
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What is interventional pain management? There is little in life that is more distressing than chronic pain. Untreated pain in the back, neck, and spine...
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Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery vs. Traditional
July 23, 2024
06 min read
  Lower back pain and neck pain affect most people at some point in their lives. Spine-related back pains can severely limit your ability to walk or work,...
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What is scoliosis and what causes it?
July 23, 2024
06 min read
Scoliosis is a condition in which your spine curves sideways instead of being completely straight. It usually occurs in the growth spurt just before kids...
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Good exercises to help sciatica
July 23, 2024
06 min read
Sciatica, or sciatic nerve pain, is so painful and debilitating that most people can’t get off their bed or stand upright. Sciatica is perhaps one of the...
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How to find the best back specialist
July 23, 2024
06 min read
Back pain specialists are doctors who diagnose and treat pains arising in different parts of your body, including your back, knees, hips, shoulders, etc....
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How to manage back pain at home?
July 23, 2024
06 min read
Back pain is a widespread problem that interferes with our work and social lives. In fact, lower back pain is one of the leading causes of disabilities...
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Q&A: Pediatric Scoliosis Specialist Dr. Laurence E. Mermelstein
July 23, 2024
06 min read
“It is very important that the kids feel involved!” A Q&A with Dr. Laurence E. Mermelstein, M.D, on the importance of a good patient-doctor...
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Protect Your Neck During Summer Activities
July 23, 2024
06 min read
By Dr. Sushil Basra The spring and summertime are excellent opportunities to enjoy the outdoors. Many of us will take this time to enjoy water activities...
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Golf Is More Than a Leisure Activity
July 23, 2024
06 min read
By Dr. Thomas J. Dowling Golf can be enjoyed by all at almost any age. The game affords a way of getting outside and spending quality time with friends...
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How Tiger Got His Back Back
July 23, 2024
06 min read
By Laurence E. Mermelstein, M.D. I must admit that I got emotional watching Tiger Woods knock in his short put on the 18th  green at August National and...
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LISS Doctors are Top!
July 23, 2024
06 min read
Congratulations to the wonderful, caring physicians at Long Island Spine Specialists for once again being named NY TopDocs and Top Doctors! Dr. Dowling,...
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7 Habits that Lead to Weak Bones
July 23, 2024
06 min read
Our bones can start to lose density at a very early age. Luckily, our bodies are always forming new bone. In our teens and 20s, our bodies form new bone...
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5 Ways to Strengthen Your Balance and Prevent Spinal Fractures
July 23, 2024
06 min read
Falling is a common injury. Whether you’re a wobbly toddler or a middle-aged athlete, just about everyone has experienced the pain of a fall. But, as you...
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Quitting Smoking Can Ease Back Pain, Aid in Healing
July 23, 2024
06 min read
If you have plans to quit smoking in the new year, doctors have an added incentive: It could ease back pain. Drop the pack, improve your back — that’s...
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7 Tips to Motivate Yourself to Exercise
July 23, 2024
06 min read
Is exercising more often one of your New Year’s resolutions? Having trouble getting started? If you’re not already a fitness buff, it can be difficult...
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Chronic Back and Neck Pain’s Close Connection to Insomnia
July 23, 2024
06 min read
If you have chronic back or neck pain and struggle with sleep, you might assume it’s the pain keeping you from sound slumber. Seems obvious, right? But...
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7 Ways to Give Yourself More Free Time
July 23, 2024
06 min read
Are you happy with the amount of free time you have? Time with no obligations, when you can relax and do whatever you want? For many of us, unscheduled...
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Healing Power of Man’s Best Friend—and Cats, too
July 23, 2024
06 min read
Here are some ways that our four-legged friends can help us to live better with chronic pain. 5 Ways Pets Can Relieve Chronic Pain 1. Animals make us feel...
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5 Overlooked Ways to Relieve Back Pain
July 23, 2024
06 min read
Back pain affects a large portion of the population. Approximately eight out of 10 people will experience this common medical condition at some point in...
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Health tips
Why Hats Should Be Mandatory for Your Kids in Cold Temperatures
July 23, 2024
06 min read
When bitterly cold temperatures hit, you have to be careful to avoid staying out in the frigid air for too long. A cold weather emergency can happen relatively...
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What to Do When Lower Back Pain Slows You Down
July 23, 2024
06 min read
Lower back pain afflicts approximately 80 percent of the population at some point in their lives, and is responsible for $50 billion in healthcare costs...
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Health tips
Why You Can’t Shake That Cold: Tips on Walking Pneumonia
July 23, 2024
06 min read
When you have cold-like symptoms — headache, runny nose, cough and a sore throat — you likely slow down a bit, thinking you can beat it in a few days....
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10 Scientifically Proven Ways to Stick to Your New Year’s Resolutions
July 23, 2024
06 min read
New Year’s resolutions have a habit of being broken more than any other goals. This year, impress your friends and show yourself resolved to follow through...
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Poor Posture Hurts Your Health More Than You Realize: 3 Tips for Fixing It
July 23, 2024
06 min read
Didn’t listen when your mom nagged you to sit or stand up straight? You should have. If you’re a serial sloucher, you can probably trace your neck and shoulder...
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Health tips
Why Working Out with Friends Makes You Fitter
July 23, 2024
06 min read
For many of us, working out is a major chore. But we still try. We sign up for gym memberships. We buy a new pair of sneakers. We start going to that dreadful...
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Sciatica
Sciatica: Symptoms and Possible Causes
July 23, 2024
06 min read
The term sciatica is commonly used to describe pain traveling in the distribution of the sciatic nerve, so it’s more accurate to say that it’s a symptom...
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Health tips
22 Fast Facts About Exercise and Your Heart
July 23, 2024
06 min read
You may think you know all there is to know about your heart and exercise. But myths abound about how much — and what kind of — physical activity you need....
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Facts Every Young Professional Should Know About Back Pain
July 23, 2024
06 min read
What do you do when it becomes recurrent or severe? Do you rush to the hospital? Take painkillers and retire early or assume and carry on with your daily...
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Health tips
8 Fun Indoor Activities to Beat the Winter Blues
July 23, 2024
06 min read
If winter is your least favorite season, maybe you’re just not taking full advantage of all the fun activities you can do while you’re inside hibernating....
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Health tips
7 Tips to Avoid Overspending on Gifts This Holiday Season
July 23, 2024
06 min read
The Winter holiday season in America has become a monthslong shopping extravaganza. And as the ever-expanding Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales indicate,...
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Diabetes and Spine Surgery: What You Need to Know
July 23, 2024
06 min read
If you have diabetes and will undergo spine surgery, you need to make special accommodations to ensure a successful surgery and recovery. People with diabetes...
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Don’t Let Pregnancy Be a Pain in Your Back
July 23, 2024
06 min read
Back pain during pregnancy is no laughing matter, as any mom-to-be with back pain can attest. Many pregnant women are told not to worry and that the pain...
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Health tips
How to Help Your Baby or Toddler Clear a Stuffy Nose
July 23, 2024
06 min read
When your child’s too young to blow his or her nose, the job of getting out excess mucus from allergies or illness falls to you. (Lucky you!) So it’s time...
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Cyber Safety over the Holiday Season
July 23, 2024
06 min read
With under a month now to Christmas, many people are starting to attend company Christmas parties and social events. As the date gets closer we all start...
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Health tips
Healthy Eating During the Holidays
July 23, 2024
06 min read
One of the biggest challenges we face during the holidays is eating healthy. We are more likely to indulge at this time of year at holiday parties, family...
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5 Cozy Ideas for Winter Self Care
July 23, 2024
06 min read
Winter is such a love-it-or-hate-it time of year. For some of us, winter is snowflakes, hot chocolate and cable-knit sweaters. For others, it’s dry skin,...
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10 Core Exercises for Lower Back Pain Relief
July 23, 2024
06 min read
Lower back pain is a pesky problem that unfortunately, many of us have experienced at one point or another to some degree. “Lower back pain is the most...
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8 Holiday Travel Tips to Stay Healthy
July 23, 2024
06 min read
The holiday travel season is full of headaches. And sometimes those headaches can turn into full-blown illnesses. If you’re planning a holiday trip, here...
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10 Foods that Prevent Muscle Cramps
July 23, 2024
06 min read
Don’t assume you’re safe from muscle cramps just because you don’t do strenuous exercises. You can suffer them even while sleeping. Luckily, you don’t...
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Snow Shoveling Techniques to Prevent Low Back Injuries
July 23, 2024
06 min read
Snow shoveling is one of the more common causes of back injuries during the winter months. However, this type of injury is preventable if you know the...
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80% of Americans Don’t Get Enough Exercise — and Here’s How Much You Actually Need
July 23, 2024
06 min read
About 80 percent of U.S. adults and children aren’t getting enough exercise for optimal health. But just how much exercise do we really need? For the first...
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4 Ways To Relieve Back Pain
July 23, 2024
06 min read
Back pain is a common problem with the potential to affect individuals of any age. While it may occur as a result of injury, it could also be the result...
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How Cooler Weather Affects Chronic Pain
July 23, 2024
06 min read
For those of you who deal with chronic pain, does cold weather worsen your pain? As we say goodbye to summer and look ahead to autumn, here are some tips...
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12 Ways to Prepare for Black Friday Like a Pro
July 23, 2024
06 min read
Black Friday is an exciting time, but it can also be overwhelming. If you don’t have a strategy in place, you could miss the best deals. That’s why we’ve...
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