Health + Wellness

Bulging Disc or Herniated Disc: Why the Difference Matters

A radiology report is one of the few documents people read with a dictionary open. Yours might say bulge on one line, protrusion on the next, and herniation in the impression at the bottom, and it is fair to wonder whether you have one problem or three.You almost certainly have one. The words describe different amounts of the same process. The reason the distinction is worth understanding is not academic. It changes which approaches make sense, and it changes how much weight to put on the report...

Health + Wellness

Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression in The Woodlands Area

Somebody told you about spinal decompression. A neighbor in The Woodlands, a coworker, a friend who swears it fixed the leg pain nothing else touched. So you looked it up, and what you found was a wall of clinic pages that all say the same handful of confident things and none of which tell you what the machine actually does.That is a fair frustration. Decompression is one of the most oversold treatments in this field, and the marketing around it has gotten loud enough to obscure a real and...

Arts + Culture

Peace, Love and Pepperoni

American GIs didn’t bring pizza to America. But what they tasted, learned and remembered during World War II helped turn it into an American tradition. Article by Chris Staples By the time American troops landed in Sicily in July 1943, pizza was already an American food. Italian immigrants had been making and selling it in New York for decades. Pizza businesses appeared there as early as the 1890s. Frank Pepe was selling tomato pies to workers in New Haven before opening his pizzeria in 1925...

Arts + Culture

Debbie Glenn's Triple Play

Award Winning Music and Menus with an Amazing History. Article by Kevin Bratton | Photography by Montgomery Historical Society & provided In the heart of historic downtown Conroe, preservation is not merely about maintaining old brick and wood. Debbie Glenn is an accomplished Texas songwriter, entrepreneur, and culinary visionary who is transforming the local landscape one venue at a time. Driven by a desire to preserve the rich heritage of her adopted hometown where her four children Haley...