I remember one patient recalling her battle with sciatica. Margo was healthy, active, and in her mid-40s. A few years earlier, she had told me that she sometimes felt a slight tingling run down her hamstring, but she had always just shrugged it off. Three years after the tingling first started, Margo and her husband [...]

Everyone has found it difficult to swallow during a particularly emotional time, whether it’s your child taking her first steps or graduating from high school. At those moments, you’d probably find yourself unable to swallow even your favorite food. An ordinary sore throat can also make swallowing hard. However, if you’re having difficulty swallowing and [...]

Asthma, technically called bronchial asthma, is a disease of the bronchial tubes that lead from the windpipe, or trachea, into the lungs. The bronchial tubes ordinarily do not furnish any marked resistance to the entrance or exit of air. However, in asthmatic attacks, the bronchial tubes tend to close down, causing asthmatic wheezing. If the, [...]

The teenage years are a time for experimenting with new ideas new body sensations, and new experiences. If your teenage children can depend on you to tell the truth about danger rather than to exaggerate, threaten, or mislead them, you have established a healthy atmosphere in which to thrash out the problems connected with the [...]

Like all the rest of us, you may develop some illness while you are pregnant. Because pregnancy is an added strain, and because you have your baby to consider, it is most important for you to be familiar with the danger signals I discuss in Chapter 9. Here are a few conditions to which pregnant [...]

If you or other members of your family have a chronic illness, you may have considered moving to a better climate. Before you decide to make a major change for the sake of a more healthful climate, my advice is: think not twice, but three times! The chances are very high that you are making [...]

The larynx, which projects itself on the outside of the body as the Adam’s apple, is part of the breathing apparatus. Its main function, however, is to act as a voice box in producing sounds. Hoarseness is a sign that something may be wrong with your larynx. Naturally, if you have been shouting and cheering [...]