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A recent column about my recent trip to New Mexico brought lots of feedback.

Back pain is one of the most common reasons people seek medical help or miss work. It is a leading cause of disability worldwide. Back pain can range from a muscle aching to a shooting, burning or stabbing sensation. Fortunately, there are measures that can help prevent or relieve most back pain episodes. If prevention fails, simple home treatment and using the body correctly often will heal the back within a few weeks. Dr. Maziyar Kalani, a Mayo Clinic neurosurgeon, shares ways you can avoid surgery for back pain.

TAMPA, Fla. — When a hemp dispensary in this Florida city started to stock edibles with certain mushroom extracts last year, state regulators quickly ordered it to stop selling the items.

WINTERSET, Iowa — For 35 years, this town’s residents have brought all manner of illnesses, aches, and worries to Kevin de Regnier’s storefront clinic on the courthouse square — and he loves them for it.

Q. My ex and I broke up three years ago. He’s recently remarried, and he sent me an email saying that his wife will now be accompanying him to our 8-year-old son’s Little League baseball games. She has not been nice to me over the last year, and the thought of her going to the games makes me very uncomfortable. My ex never calls her on her behavior, and I feel out in the cold. I’m thinking I’m going to back off attending my son’s games because I don’t want to deal with my ex and this woman.

LENEXA, Kan. — Like most people whose pets have gong missing, Jan Langton took to social media when her beloved tortoise escaped from her backyard in Lenexa, Kansas.

CHICAGO — Another Illinois barbecue legend has been inducted into The American Royal Association’s Barbecue Hall of Fame.

FICTION: “Kairos” finds main character Katharina sifting through memorabilia, hunting for answers.

ELIDA — Jean A. and Thomas J. Mosgrove Sr. are celebrating their 50th anniversary with a trip.

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