Word: sciatica
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...upper bourgeoisie have taken to the fad. Why? Though the ads say nothing about it, to avoid the laws against false and misleading advertising claims, the beautiful people are convinced that the copper bangles* will miraculously alleviate the pain of a variety of ailments, ranging from arthritis to sciatica to chronic backache...
...wife reach an accommodation with age. It is a counting of what is left, rather than what is gone: his clarity of mind and a measure of curiosity, her skill and knowledge, a love based solidly on respect. For the moment, these outweigh the prospect of false teeth and sciatica. Will they continue to? "I do not know. Let us hope so. We have no choice in the matter...
...Miami last week, leaving behind three sons, his mother, and wives Nos. 1, 2 and 3. Says "the Keed," now a Jehovah's Witness: "I don't think, if I had known God's Word, I would have become a boxer." He suffers from cataracts, sciatica and penury, but he has high hopes that his problems will all be resolved when he goes to New York City, where he has three other sons...
...Yeats and James Stephens. Probably no writer was ever more single-minded than Joyce or more convinced of his own genius, even before he published a line. Yet his life was a continuous obstacle course. His eyes failed him, he had facial neuralgia, arthritis of the back, sciatica. "My mouth is full of decayed teeth," he wrote, "and my soul of decayed ambitions." He was to die in 1941 from the hemorrhaging of a duodenal ulcer-his stomach pains had been diagnosed in Paris as due to nerves...
...result, said Dr. Snorrason, the sitter's muscles and ligaments stretch and he becomes fatigued. Long periods in a conventional chair can cause lumbago (generalized pain in the loins), sciatica from pressure on the sciatic nerves, or even contribute to disk displacement resulting in extremely painful pinched nerves in the lower back...