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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Tension Headache Natural Relief

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 [...]

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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

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Why Does It Hurt To Have A Massage?

Sometimes it hurts when your muscles are being massaged.  The reason for this is usually that your muscles are on the ‘tight’ side. Muscles are supposed to be balanced.  That means that they are all working together and none are ‘too strong.’  They are all ‘just right.’ But sometimes that’s not the case. Sometimes muscles [...]

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Got knots in your upper back?  Interestingly, this has been one of the most common complaints I have received email and comments about lately.  And it’s no surprise! We used to swing from trees.  (Well, okay, our ancestors used to swing from trees but maybe you did when you were a kid.  At least, I [...]

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