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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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Muscle spasms are contractions in your muscle.  Imagine you are flexing your upper arm by bending your elbow.  Your bicep muscle will pop up.  It is contracted or in contraction. At the very same time, the muscle in the back of your arm is also going into a different type of contraction.  It has to.  [...]

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A “knot” is a contraction (shortening) or spasm in a muscle. It is a place where a muscle has become ‘tight’ for one reason or another. Overwork is the most common cause. That doesn’t mean that YOU are working too much–it means that some of your muscles are. When you were a child you used [...]

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How Your Mind Causes Pain

Your thoughts can cause pain.  When you have certain thoughts you will assume certain postures. If you are depressed, you must hunch forward.  You get a depressed posture. If you don’t, you cannot stay depressed. If you are sad, it’s reflected in your mouth and face and in your whole body. When you are happy, [...]

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Massage Gets Rid Of Pain!

Massage is the oldest pain medication in the world! Click the link –> to discover why:   http://www.kathrynmerrow.com/massage/massage-is-medicine/#more-373 You may know that I have been in the massage field for over 20 years.  In that time I have seen over and over and over how beneficial massage is for so many pain issues. Basically massage is [...]

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What’s the most common cause of upper back pain?  Muscles! Upper back muscles get strained from being stretched and overused.  Then they get cranky and start complaining. You might feel the complaint as muscle strain, a headache or neck ache, a muscle spasm near your shoulder blade or “knots” in your upper back. But guess [...]

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