SIMPLE PAIN RELIEF with Kathryn Merrow, the Pain Relief Coach

There are many ways yoga can help get rid of headaches.

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Why We Hurt explains the causes of our pain. It also tells us what we can do to get rid of our backaches, headaches, shoulder pain, arthritis and fibromyalgia, naturally.

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Muscles, posture and headaches are closely related. Discover what causes head pain and what to do to get rid of it.

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Is your posture good or not-so-good? People with poor posture look like they are leaning or collapsing forward.  Often their head is way forward in front of their body (“forward head posture.”)  The curve in their neck is either too much or too flat, and so is the curve behind their waist. Their shoulders round [...]

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Your head may actually pound. Light hurts your eyes. Every sound is noise and the noise is all too loud. You might even throw up. You feel bad, and you look bad, too. I really can’t think of anything worse than a really bad migraine. A broken leg may keep you from moving, but a [...]

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Choices, choices, choices. All of our lives we make choices. More than we would like to make. So many! Some of our choices have been excellent, and some, well…maybe not so good. But we keep on going. Jerry L. Old MD is a geriatric physician. I figure, with a name like that, how could he [...]

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I recently went to a birthday celebration. It gave me the opportunity to observe how some people take care of themselves…or don’t. The party was for a sixteen-year old boy. He has chronic headaches. He has been treated by a neuromuscular massage therapist (not me,) which helped, but did not cure him. He is being [...]

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If you have achy, breaky shoulders you are not alone! Our lives cause us to overstretch our upper back muscles often. We work on a line, at a desk, holding our babies, cooking, or other things. All of them require us to hold our arms and hands in front of us for long periods. The [...]

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Wow. Today I am feeling really insignificant. I love helping people feel better, to reduce their pain. Sometimes I even help them see things differently, so they can function better. I help them move better and hurt less. I help them understand why they hurt. And I have my own story about pain. I have [...]

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Did you have a good night’s sleep or did you wake up with another headache? What could have caused your head pain? Could the culprit be, perhaps, your pillow? Headaches don’t happen for no reason. They happen because your neck, head or shoulder muscles get tight and cranky and complain. They let you know they [...]

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