The Multifactorial Approach to Healthcare
Back Pain isn’t Scary ! Every day that passes by sees an increase in the amount of new pharmaceutical interventions, diagnostic tests, and diagnoses. Pressure to make a firm diagnosis and to establish a quick and effective treatment pushes doctors to focus hard on the imaging and laboratory results in order to make sure we […]
Back Pain isn’t Scary !
Back Pain isn’t Scary ! Back Pain Myths and Why You Shouldn’t be Scared I often see patients that are in heavy distress due to their low back pain. Whether it is acute or chronic, low back pain is often felt by patients as being a very scary thing. My goal today is to try […]
The Truth About Fat !
The Truth About Fat ! For many of us, the word “fat” is a scary one. We try to eat a low fat diet in order to protect ourselves from all of the dangers of fat. When we think of eating fats we usually associate them with weight gain and poor heart health. What we tend to do […]
The Dangers of Opioids
The Dangers of Opioids Opiates: Friend or Foe in the Fight Against Pain? The business of pain is a difficult one. People suffer every day all over the world with horrible pain that seems like it can’t be resolved. As physicians grow busier and busier and the amount of chronic pain patients continues to grow the […]
CoQ10 Benefits !
CoQ10 Benefits ! Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10 or Ubiquinone/Ubiquinol) Today let’s have a quick talk about an often overlooked nutrient. While much of the time we spend our time examining things such as trace minerals (Calcium, Magnesium, Iron…), or talking about the named Vitamins (A, B, C, D…) we often forget about the other nutrients that […]
Do You Have a Magnesium Deficiency?
Do You Have a Magnesium Deficiency? Do you suffer from Diabetes, Hypertension, Osteoporosis, or Obesity? Do you have trouble sleeping at night and feel tired throughout the entire day, even with coffee? It turns out there is a vital mineral that many of us are missing in our diets that has shown to be correlated with […]
Curcumin !
Curcumin ! Let’s take some time to discuss curcumin. We live on an island where spices are used in every dish, but are we having enough of this tasty anti-inflammatory? Curcumin is the pigment that gives the yellow color to turmeric and ginger. This pigment is called a “polyphenol” which includes many different naturally occurring chemicals within plants and […]
Le Miracle morning …. c’est bon pour son dos !
Le Miracle morning …. c’est bon pour son dos ! Dans deux posts précédents, nous avons abordé la notion de douleur, et en particulier de la douleur chronique. Nous avons compris que la douleur n’est pas matérialisable, qu’ elle n’est pas objectivement quantifiable, on peut simplement en mesurer les manifestations. La douleur est » une […]
Que faire en attendant ? (video) LOW BACK PAIN
Que faire en attendant ? (video) LOW BACK PAIN Que faire en attendant ? ACUTE LOW BACK PAIN (video) En ces temps de confinement, nous tenterons de faire des petites vidéos sur les conduites à tenir (à la maison) en cas de problème musculo-squelettique aigu. 1ère vidéo de cette série, par le Dr Ranen Rambrij, chiropracteur […]
Que faire en attendant ? (Video) L’entorse de la cheville !
Que faire en attendant ? (Video) L’entorse de la cheville ! Conduite à tenir simple en cas d’entorse latérale de la cheville. L’incidence de l’entorse de la cheville est de l’ordre de 1 entorse pour 12000 habitants par jour, soit à peu près 100 entorses par jour chez nous à l’Ile Maurice ! En cette […]
