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With the arrival of winter, your cold hands and feet might not be the result of nervousness. You will mostly see people around you rubbing their hands to keep them warm, but no matter how many pairs of socks you might wear, it just wouldn't work.

We often encounter stressful situations in our daily life, and our stress can manifest in a variety of ways. For instance, our muscles tend to tighten when we’re anxious, causing strain and muscle pain particularly in the trapezius muscles, located in the upper back.

Lots of people are suffering from shoulder pain in their lifetime, especially whose work includes laboring job or housekeeping things. In general practice, incidence rates of shoulder pain is reported from 11 to 29 per 1000 patient years in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands [1]. The etiology of shoulder pain varies and needs to be diagnosed by a physician. The simplest classification divides into acute or chronic problem. The treatments according to different problems are never the same. But they may all have a serious issue of sleeping at night.

Jane was an office worker, who always complaints about sore neck. She needed to stare at her computer for a long time to deal with a large amount of work.

She felt that her working desk and chair may be wrong or not suitable for her, because she got more and more pain during working. But when she was in her day-off time, she might just feel some stiffness but no obvious pain in her neck. Sometimes she put a heat pad on her neck and shoulder, trying to relieve some soreness.

Low back pain (LBP) has become one of the most serious public health problems, with lifetime prevalence as high as 84%. It can present in people with different levels of severity. For example, people who work and lead active lives, as well as people who are severely disabled or unable to work.

We perform plenty of daily activities that involve lower body locomotion such as walking, running, and climbing the stairs. We do all these with the help of our leg muscles, specifically our calf muscles.

In simple terms, a hot water bottle is a container that is filled with hot water and then sealed using a stopper. It is used to apply heat to different parts of the body to aid in pain management.