by Peter G. Hanson, M.D. | Jun 19, 2020 | Ergonomics, Health, Stress, Trigger Point Injections
Stress has been greatly increased by the covid-19 pandemic of 2020. Millions have been infected, hundreds of thousands have died, and more millions have lost their jobs. Until a vaccine or a curative drug is available, our main strategy is to modify our...
by Peter G. Hanson, M.D. | Apr 2, 2014 | Anti-Aging, Ergonomics, Exercise, Health, Obesity
One of the common complaints I see in my office is that of hip pains, which come in two varieties: ACUTE hip pains:We see these cases a lot as injuries to the groin muscles on the inside aspect of the hip. These are usually pretty obvious in their origin, for...
by Peter G. Hanson, M.D. | Jan 26, 2014 | Ergonomics, Exercise, Health, Pain, Pain control
Knee pains are becoming very common. Most of the orthopedic surgeons in professional football and hockey are specialists in the knee, leaving others to look after the rest of the bones in question. In looking after sports injuries in my clinic, I can...
by Peter G. Hanson, M.D. | Dec 26, 2013 | Ergonomics, Exercise, Health
Work injuries used to be from highly mobile tasks of hunting and gathering, for which the body was actually well designed. So the injuries tended to be from pure accident, rather than from enforced ergonomics. This changed with the industrial age, when we started to...
by Peter G. Hanson, M.D. | Nov 20, 2013 | Blood Pressure, Ergonomics, Exercise, Health, Sports
Sports injuries are usually not subtle. Tension in the underlying tissues results from acute acceleration or deceleration movements. For example, we see this with a check into the boards, a tackle from the side, or a crash over the...
by Peter G. Hanson, M.D. | Nov 12, 2013 | Depression, Ergonomics, Exercise, Health, Heart Disease, Obesity, Prevention
Times have certainly changed. Smokers were “cool” in the early days of movies, and they were even hailed by doctors in media ads. Smoking became so popular that anyone who didn’t light up at work was considered “anti-social”. Today,...
