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Posted in muscle pain on Mar 4th, 2010
Muscle pain always has a cause. Sometimes the cause is a crooked body. This can happen from an injury, poor standing or sitting habits or bones that are not equal in length.
Bodies are really logical. And smart, too! But sometimes they need a little help. From you, of course.
If you have muscle pain in your [...]
Posted in back pain relief on Feb 14th, 2010
When your back hurts you might think you will have back pain forever. Not so!
You have a smart body. Your back pain is a message. Your body is telling you that it is not happy about something that is happening.
There are a lot of causes for back pain but most involve your muscles. Muscles move [...]
Posted in back pain relief, neck pain on Jan 8th, 2010
If you have neck pain or back pain there’s a really good chance that you have lost the natural curves in your spine.
When you were born you were curled into a rounded-back position. In a little while you began to stretch your arms and legs and rolled over and arched your back in the opposite [...]
Posted in back pain relief on Dec 15th, 2009
Back pain responds to stretching but not just any old stretching. The muscles that need to be lengthened are not necessarily the same ones that are complaining!
Here’s an article that goes into more detail about the benefits of stretching.
http://www.wordcures.com/HealthyLivingDIY/2009/03/stretching_is_just_too_much_wo.html
You may not remember but when you were a baby you were stretching all the time. If [...]
Posted in back pain relief on Nov 15th, 2009
Upper back pain, mid-back pain or lower back pain all have the same most common cause: Your muscles.
Muscles are the most frequent cause of back pain. And that’s good news! Why? Because muscles can be “released” or treated and get back to their normal healthy state.
Here’s more about muscles:
Muscles move bones.
Muscles can get “trigger points.”
Your [...]
Posted in back pain relief, posture, stretching, videos on Oct 27th, 2009
Back pain is often caused by posture. When your posture collapses–you “fall forward” with your head leading the rest of the group–the muscles in your chest get short and tight. That makes it hard to breathe, hard to hold your head up, hard to have good posture.
At the same time, the muscles in your back [...]
Posted in back pain relief, hip pain, muscle pain on Oct 22nd, 2009
Does walking cause back pain? You bet it can! It also causes pain in your hips and pelvis IF you don’t move the way your body was designed to move.
Every week I do another episode of Pain Relief Radio. Today we talked about how to walk to prevent or get rid of back pain. We [...]
Posted in pain relief on Sep 28th, 2009
If you have pain in your back it might be from muscles on the back side of your body. Or…it may be from the muscles on your abdomen! Your belly is the “front of your back.”
Today a client told me that she had a great weekend stretching and straining and balancing on a ladder to [...]
Posted in arthritis, back pain relief, muscle pain, pain relief, posture, stretching on Jul 11th, 2009
Is your back a little stiff? Do you wish your posture was better? Are you as flexible as you’d like to be? Are you feeling “stuck”?
I will always believe that massage is the best thing to help muscles relax but stretching is the next best. So, here’s something that’ll help you get “unstuck” and relieve [...]
Posted in back pain relief on Apr 23rd, 2009
There are many causes for chronic back pain. Muscle strain is one cause of chronic back pain. How do muscles become strained?
