About Back Pain on About - Smoking and Degenerative Disk Disease
Tuesday April 18, 2006
Did you know that smoking is linked with degenerative disk disease? About's Smoking Cessation editor, Terry Martin, offers insight as to how smoking speeds up degenerative changes in the intervertebral disks, changes that, in a non-smoker, happen more slowly, and are associated with aging. In this article, Terry is accompanied by one of her site visitors, who shares her story of smoking and disk disease.
Related articles:
- Degenerative Disk Disease, written by About's Arthritis editor, Carol Eustice.
- The Intervertebral Disk, a walk-through on the anatomy of this part of the spine.
Comments
Where is the article. I have looked through some of your articles, and they are only a paragraph or two. This makes me think that signing up to your newsletter would be useless. I’m just letting you know that maybe more info would get you more readers?
Thanks,
Leah
Hi, Leah,
First, let me apologize for not making the link to the article more obvious. Here it is: http://quitsmoking.about.com/od/tobaccorelateddiseases/a/smokingandDDD.htm (If you clicked on “smoking” in the first sentence, it would take you there, too.)
Second, I think you may be confusing the blog posts which often are only one or two paragraphs with the full articles. Here is an example of a full article:
Yoga for Back Pain Overview:
http://backandneck.about.com/od/yogaforbackpain/p/yogabackpainove.htm
You can find articles via the left side links and also via links in the blog posts.
You could think of blog posts as announcements for articles and news. Then the articles themselves are generally longer.
But not always - here is an example of a long blog post, that I think is quite meaty:
What’s that in Your Shoe?
http://backandneck.about.com/b/2007/10/31/whats-that-in-your-shoe-is-it-helping-your-back.htm
I hope that helps.
Anne