Rehabilitation & Therapy

5 Exercises to Prevent an Aching Neck
Although neck pain can be the result of stress, age or injury, it is most often associated with poor posture.

A Guide to Common Medicinal Herbs
Here's a look at some of the more common medicinal herbs. Most herbs have not been thoroughly tested for effectiveness or interactions with other herbs, supplements, drugs or foods.

Balancing Act—When You Have Heart Failure and Diabetes
Between 12 and 30 percent of people with heart failure also have diabetes. This double diagnosis makes it especially important that you manage both conditions. Here’s how.

Don’t Let Nerve Pain Keep You on the Sidelines
Regular exercise is essential for managing diabetes—even if you have nerve damage due to high blood sugar. Just follow these precautions when you work out.

Getting the Most From Physical Therapy
Physical therapists teach people recovering from surgery or with injuries, sprains or arthritis how to perform exercises that will help them gain strength and mobility and prevent recurring injury. Here are suggestions to help you get the most from physical therapy.

Helping the Heart Through Cardiac Rehab
A rehabilitation program often can help heart patients live better with their disease and recover from medical procedures like surgery and angioplasty. But experts say that only 25 percent of those who could benefit from cardiac rehab are getting it.

Massage Therapy for Back Pain
More than half of American adults seek medical treatment for back pain at some point in their lives.

Nutrition to Help Ease Rheumatoid Arthritis
What you eat and how you cook may make life easier for people with RA.