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...TWIST It's amazing the contortions some people will go through to retrieve luggage from the overhead bin on an airplane. Rotating your spine while putting extra pressure on it can lead to muscle or ligament strain if you're lucky?and a herniated disk if you're not. Point your toes in the direction in which your hands are moving, say the experts. Then, when you have lowered your bag, you can turn your whole body to head down the aisle...
...TWIST It's amazing the contortions some people will go through to retrieve luggage from the overhead bin on an airplane. Rotating your spine while putting extra pressure on it can lead to muscle or ligament strain if you're lucky--and a herniated disk if you're not. Point your toes in the direction in which your hands are moving, say the experts. Then, when you have lowered your bag, you can turn your whole body to head down the aisle...
...Americans with chronic lower back pain turn to spinal-fusion surgery for relief. The Food and Drug Administration has approved an alternative called the Charité. It's an artificial disk--high- density plastic sandwiched between metal plates--designed to replace the natural fluid-filled disks of the lower spine when they are damaged by degenerative disk disease. Doctors hope the Charité, which has been used in Europe since 1987, will allow patients more freedom of movement than the spinal-fusion procedure...
...Melbourne's eastern suburbs. Sitting around the kitchen table at the home of member Jeanette, three of them explain how the therapy helped them after the shattering diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer. "I was spiraling down," says Sally, 47, whose cancer reappeared in the original site and on her spine eight years after she thought she'd beaten it. "I'm coping enormously better now, purely and simply because I can go to this group, this sanctuary. You can say what you like. No one's going to ridicule you, no one's going to laugh...
...John Edwards have both invoked Reeve's advocacy of embryonic stem-cell funding in their campaign against the Bush Administration, which restricts research on religious grounds. But scientists must first coax stem cells to develop into nerve cells before they can begin to put them to work in the spine...