You deserve to feel better! Discover the truth about why you hurt and the “secrets” to becoming pain free!
Posted in muscle pain, self help on Apr 6th, 2011
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. [...]
Posted in knots in your back, shoulder blade spasm on Feb 17th, 2011
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 [...]
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, [...]
Posted in massage, natural health on Dec 4th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in back pain relief, shoulder blade spasm on Nov 30th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in back pain relief, ice & heat on Oct 11th, 2010
Upper back pain? Muscle spasms? Knots in your back? Here’s a “cool” natural self-help tool: Ice! Ice can be a very good friend! Lots of folks prefer heat. They like the way it feels more than they do ice (and I don’t blame them one bit!) But as a pain relief tool for getting rid [...]
Posted in natural health on Oct 6th, 2010
Every time I read a new article about Vitamin D3 (the sunshine vitamin) researchers have discovered new benefits! Here’s the link to an article that explains how D3 works and what it does. Vitamin D3 (<– click here) Vitamin D3 (read the label) is the proper form of D to take and it’s a really [...]
Posted in massage on Oct 4th, 2010
I grabbed this article from The American Massage Therapy Association. It might not be terribly exciting reading but it shows how the understanding of the value of therapeutic massage is changing. It also shows why YOU should consider massage as a natural tool for stress and pain relief. Who Gets Massage, Where And Why? * [...]
Posted in foot pain on Sep 7th, 2010
When I was in ninth grade my big toe joint swelled and hurt. The school nurse wasn’t very sympathetic. She blamed it on my shoes. Maybe so. But they were cute. Cheap but cute. They probably caused me to curl my toes to hold them on my feet. But according to Doctors Travell & Simons [...]
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 [...]
