You deserve to feel better! Discover the truth about why you hurt and the “secrets” to becoming pain free!
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 ice & heat on Mar 1st, 2010
Muscles respond very well to heat and ice therapy. Why is this?
Applications of heat fill the tissues with blood and increase circulation. Short applications of ice also increase circulation. This is all good!
Longer applications of cold by itself reduce the flow of blood to the area so keep application of cold in an area to [...]
Posted in hip pain on Feb 25th, 2010
I had a great time talking with muscle expert and author Gini Maddocks at PainReliefRadio.com Gini always has a lot of excellent input to help listeners get rid of their pain and today was no exception.
We talked about your hip, how it moves and why you have hip pain. Gini told us about her super-dooper [...]
Posted in shoulder blade spasm on Feb 23rd, 2010
Readers ask a lot of questions about knots in their backs. I’m going to give you several links to articles that I wrote which will give you a lot of insight into the causes of pain in the shoulder and upper back.
Usually people have shoulder and shoulder blade pain on the side of their dominant [...]
Posted in knee pain on Feb 2nd, 2010
Knee pain can be caused by strains and tears to ligaments, injuries to the structure of the knee, or by soft tissues. Soft tissues means everything that is not bone. That includes muscles.
You may have to see a doctor if you have an injury which requires repair. But for knee pain which has come on [...]
Posted in jaw pain on Jan 18th, 2010
Do you have pain in your jaw? Is it hard to open and close your mouth? Do you clamp your teeth together without even thinking about it?
Did you know that there are muscles around the joint of your jaw that will cause these symptoms? Let’s talk about those muscles and about that joint–the temporomandibular joint [...]
Posted in massage on Jan 14th, 2010
Does massage help relieve muscle pain?
Oh my goodness! Don’t even get me started on the benefits of massage.
I am SO biased! I LOVE massage!
Pain happens for lots of reasons but therapeutic massage can help with virtually ALL of them. Why? Because muscles are responsible for so much of your pain.
Massage ranges from so light it [...]
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 massage on Jan 6th, 2010
Some people have soreness following therapeutic massage and others never do. The possibility of having sore muscles following a massage is more common with your very first massage. Soreness occurs because “new” things are happening to your muscles. They get kneaded, moved, squeezed.
All of this can release metabolic (body) wastes and other materials that are [...]
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 [...]
