Posted in foot pain on Aug 1st, 2010
What is the cause of pain on the bottom of your feet? There are several possibilities including the muscles on the bottom side of your foot. Those muscles can be pressed into with fingers or a tennis or golf ball. The muscles to press tend to be in the area of foot pain. If those [...]
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Posted in self help on Jul 11th, 2010
You have muscle or joint pain and, of course, you want to get rid of it. You prefer to get rid of your pain naturally without the use of drugs or surgery. Is this possible? Yes. Why? Your body heals all the time. It is constantly changing and making corrections (when it can.) Let’s use [...]
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Posted in massage on Jul 9th, 2010
Is massage therapy good for people who have hypermobile joints? Here’s a question I received and my response. Question: I have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Hypermobility Type. Have you worked with this disorder before? If so, is there any type of massage that I should avoid? I know I don’t like the deep tissue massage, and any [...]
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Posted in self help on Jun 19th, 2010
Did you know that pain can be caused by not getting enough sleep? Researchers have been able to create muscle pain in healthy, young college students simply by depriving them of sleep! The kind of pain they developed was the type that people with Fibromyalgia Syndrome have: all-over joint and muscle aches. If you have [...]
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Posted in natural health on Jun 12th, 2010
What’s the relationship between gratitude and pain? It turns out that when you realize all that you have to be grateful for, your levels of stress and pain go down. That’s a very good thing! Gratitude helps you feel better on ALL levels. Here’s the link to a very good article about an easy [...]
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Posted in back pain relief on May 30th, 2010
We humans get back pain when our muscles get out of balance. How does this happen? Well, we are supposed to move, run, jump, climb, roll and continue doing all of the cool, fun things we did as young children. But most of us do not. So, we get back pain. Why? Because we are [...]
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Posted in tooth pain on Apr 22nd, 2010
Have you ever heard of someone having a tooth pulled because they had pain in the tooth? But afterward they still had the pain? I have. Here’s how: There are muscles in your head that can actually cause you to feel pain in your teeth. The pain is not IN your tooth but that is [...]
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Posted in foot pain on Apr 6th, 2010
If you have stiffness in your ankles or pain in the arch of your foot, this article is for you! My client Pat had told me about the pain that ran from her hip to her foot. We had worked on the muscles of her lower back and hip in previous sessions because those muscles [...]
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Posted in muscle pain, pain relief on Apr 2nd, 2010
Muscle pain happens for reasons. The good news is that you can get rid of those reasons by taking simple, natural actions. I’ll tell you about five of them shortly. As a neuromuscular massage therapist, I learned a lot from my clients, my instructors and my own body and pain. That’s how I know that [...]
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Posted in massage on Apr 1st, 2010
Which type of massage is best? Here’s an article from my friend Janet McClain. She’s been providing therapeutic massage to residents of southeast Michigan since 1992. Janet says: Some people have a preference for a certain type of massage. This may be because they have had it in the past and enjoyed the experience. But [...]
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