You deserve to feel better! Discover the truth about why you hurt and the “secrets” to becoming pain free!
Nov 1st, 2011 by Kathryn Merrow
If you suffer from pain in your lower back and neck you can benefit from a lumbar support pillow. It’s easy to make your own and it’s a good way to get natural back pain relief.
You can create Continue Reading »
Oct 27th, 2011 by Kathryn Merrow
Sep 15th, 2011 by Kathryn Merrow
Feet hurt? Feet take a beating all the time. And if you are carrying a few extra pounds that creates a lot of stress on the joints, bones, muscles, ligaments and tendons in your feet.
A rheumatologist (a medical doctor who specializes in arthritis and similar diseases) said that if you lose just ten pounds–Just Ten Pounds!–a lot of your foot pain will be gone!
Gone!
She said you don’t have to get to normal weight to get rid of foot pain. Just Continue Reading »
Aug 20th, 2011 by Kathryn Merrow
Do you have a stiff neck? Here are eight ways you can get that tight neck loosened up.
1. Massage. If you have massage does your massage therapist massage, warm and loosen the muscles on the front of your chest and arms and abdomen? Does she or he or has anyone checked to see whether you have flat arches on your feet? Did you know that flat feet can cause neck pain?
2. Posture corrections. Neck muscles can pull your head forward. I hope your massage therapist works on the muscles in the front of your neck and on the sides of your neck and not just in the back? Do you Continue Reading »
Aug 13th, 2011 by Kathryn Merrow
Tension headaches should really be called Muscle Tension Headaches. They happen when we do things that tighten the muscles that attach at the base of the head. What are some of these things?
1. Driving. Most car seats tilt back too far or have headrests that push your head forward. Either of these will strain the muscles that cause tension headaches.
2. Couches (sofas) and chairs that have too much backward lean.
3. Slouching or sitting on your tailbone with a rounded back. Slouching or leaning sideways will do it, too.
4. Forward head posture or holding your head in front of your body.
What’s the solution?
1. Padding Continue Reading »
Jul 30th, 2011 by Kathryn Merrow
Bodies heal all the time.
Sometimes when you have pain or discomfort you think, “I’m getting old.”
Or maybe you (or your doctor) says, “It’s arthritis.”
Well, maybe it’s arthritis. Maybe not. But it’s probably muscles and muscles are fixable.
Joint pain is often really muscle pain. We think Continue Reading »
Jul 9th, 2011 by Kathryn Merrow
Fibromyalgia is a whole-body pain syndrome. A “syndrome” is a bunch of symptoms. Symptoms are things like irritable bowel, headache, muscle pain–those are symptoms.
And your body is 100% all natural so it just seems reasonable to me to use 100% all natural methods to get rid of the things that cause pain and distress whenever you can.
I’ll bet that makes Continue Reading »
Jun 26th, 2011 by Kathryn Merrow
If you have serious pain in your jaw, you can try doing massage on the muscles in your face. (<== click here.) But if that only helps for a short time and the pain comes back that could mean you have an abscess.
An abscess is an infection in the space around a tooth. It needs to be treated by a dentist. The first treatment is with an antibiotic to clear the infection and then you and your dentist will decide what to do next.
One man went to his doctor and to a dentist complaining about the pain in his face and the roof of his mouth. They ‘couldn’t see’ anything. The dentist ground down the surface of a molar guessing that that might have been the jaw pain problem.
But it wasn’t.
Neither doctor listened to his Continue Reading »
Jun 26th, 2011 by Kathryn Merrow
Mike had constant pain and muscle tightness under his right shoulder for decades. He also had lots of neck pain and stiffness and headaches.
But Mike in Miami is feeling better now and he wrote this very nice email message to me. I want to share it with you because there is a very important message here. I’ll tell you about it at the end:
Kathryn:
I’ve been meaning to write and tell you a HUGE “THANKS”. Thanks for helping me
finally realize where my pain was originating and what to do to relieve it.I’m confident I found your website through various google searches. You see, I have
had back issues for decades. I’m 53, tall and can still hear my mother “hold your
shoulders back”. I didn’t. I slouched. I had horrible posture, both sitting and
standing, and I sit at a computer 8 hours a day with my right arm up on the desk
“driving” that mouse.I have had constant pain and muscle tightness under my right shoulder for DECADES.
I have also had alot Continue Reading »
May 18th, 2011 by Kathryn Merrow
I have heard horror stories about people having teeth removed because they were painful. But the problem is that the teeth were innocent!
After the tooth or teeth were pulled, the people still had tooth pain. The teeth were removed but the original cause of the pain wasn’t treated.
There is a strap-like muscle that attaches your lower jaw to your upper jaw. It allows you to chew and clench your teeth. It is called the massater. There is one on each side of your face.
When the massater develops trigger points (hyper-irritable areas of muscle that cause pain) it feels like the pain is in your teeth!
If you have pain on the top and bottom teeth on one whole side of your mouth there is a very good chance that the massater muscle is to blame.
Here’s the treatment:
