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Pain is a common sensation, experienced by most of us at some point in our lives. When the discomfort lasts more than 12 weeks, it is classified as chronic, experienced by about 20 percent of the population. 50 million US citizens live with it…..but how much do we really know about chronic pain? The answer may lie in how well we (don’t) deal with it. Most people when asked will say pain is an undesirable sensation, which is an understandable sentiment. Yet, this is not always the case: pain has numerous functions in the human body. The pain experienced from trauma to our skin is ...

Outdoors North: Lady Springtime may have hit the snooze alarm

Friday: Outdoors

“Meet me on the mountain when the winter lays her head to rest,” — Gary Richrath As the gray morning wore on, I was heading west across the peninsula with a cold wind putting a snap in the springtime air. Watching the sides of the road, I was surprised to see many of the small creeks and streams flowing still well within their banks despite a good deal of the snowpack now melting or already gone. In many a past springtime, these waterways would be unapproachable, consumed and swollen, flooded and roaring. The miles ahead would explain the phenomenon as the farther into big ...

Asparagus in the garden takes its time but is worth the wait

Friday: Outdoors

Asparagus isn’t the most common vegetable among home gardeners, and that’s likely because growing it is an exercise in patience. But three years of patience is a small price to pay for up to 20 years of relatively effortless tender green shoots. If you’ve never seen an asparagus plant, ...

Great Lakes fish consumption app improves Anishinaabe way of life

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MARQUETTE — A long history of Great Lakes pollution has discouraged the Anishinaabe practice of fish consumption, as eating what’s caught in Great Lakes waters means ingesting toxic chemicals. But a mobile app — GigiigooApp — is safely bringing the tradition back. A new study from ...

Health Matters: Ball of foot pain sometimes a mystery

Tuesday: Health

There is an abundance of unexplained medical conditions in the world, although our understanding has advanced tremendously. There is much we don’t know about the human body and don’t let anyone pretend otherwise. How about an explanation for “Stiff Person Syndrome” or Morgellon’s with the strange skin fibers? We don’t even understand something as common as migraine headaches. Schizophrenia and many disorders of the brain remain a mystery. How about the one where an adolescent suddenly develops pain in the ball of the foot for no reason and without injury? In the disease ...