Is RICE Dead? Why Ice Delays Recovery by Gabe Mirkin MD
March 20, 2014 by Gabe Mirkin, MD When I wrote my best-selling Sportsmedicine Book in 1978, I coined the term RICE (Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation) for the treatment of athletic injuries (Little Brown and Co., page 94). Ice has been a standard treatment for injuries and sore muscles because it helps to relieve pain caused […]
Remarkable Recovery from Hip Pain
78 year old woman comes into the clinic with chronic hip pain. She is also hard of hearing. She has been to a Chiropractor for a year and seen an orthopedist who prescribed pain control injections and sent her to physical therapy. So she has pursued the proper therapeutic modalities that one should in this […]
Acupuncture for Shoulder and Neck Pain In Stuart, Florida
Down here in the treasure coast area of Stuart and Port Saint Lucie (this are also includes North Palm Beach County like Hobe Sound and Jupiter), there are a lot reasons why shoulder and neck problems are the biggest reasons for people coming into Treasure Coast Community Acupuncture for treatment. Fr the younger crowd it […]
The Mission of Treasure Coast Community Acupuncture
Treasure Coast Community Acupuncture or TCCA is to provide low-cost medical care to the community of Martin, Saint Lucie and North Palm Beach County. The medical care we give is in the form of acupuncture, Chinese herbal therapies and natural medicine. If we can we will advise you on how to pursue conventional medical care […]