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December 2010

The San Ramon Patch -Check it Out

Just discovered a nice little community website that covers news and events in our wonderful town.   Great resource to find things like concerts, plays, fairs, local school events, classes, garage sales, and so forth.  If you are a business owner, you can advertise as well. Here’s the link:  http://sanramon.patch.com/

How to Prevent Lower Back Pain from Setting In

Lower back pain afflicts hundreds of thousands of people in this country.  For most, it gradually sets in without no apparent cause.  I get this a lot in my practice. One common denominator in many patients who have lower back pain is a sedentary job.  These patients sit for the most part of their workday, [...]

Rainy Season is Approaching – Drive Carefully

We’ve been getting intermittent days of rain here in San Ramon over the past couple of weeks. Once the rainy season starts, please make sure you drive with extra caution.  The first rains of the season loosen the previous months’ buildup of oil on the roads, making them extra slippery.  It’s a good idea to [...]

Ten Heart Attack Symptoms You Should Know About

Image via Wikipedia Heart disease is the number one killer of Americans each year.  This helpful article recently came out.  Please familiarize yourself with these symptoms, whether you have risk factors for heart disease or not: How to Tell if Someone Is Having a Heart Attack Don’t let that happen to you. Here, 10 heart [...]

New Study: Just being a little overweight increases risk of death

A recent study involving about 1.5 million people concluded that healthy white adults who were overweight were 13 percent more likely to die during the time they were followed in the study than those whose weight is in an ideal range. The study’s conclusions, published in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine, are similar to [...]