Sitting is slowly Killing all of us Things aren’t what they used to be in many ways. We used to fill our days with standing working on crops in our fields, gathering or hunting for our food or standing working in factories or mills. With the advent of computers, TV and desk jobs many of […]
Homemade Ice and Heat Packs
As simple as it may seem heat or cold application can provide a surprising amount of pain relief for many types of pain. Cold packs help reduce inflammation and numb painful areas. Heat packs help increase circulation to a specific area of the body and can promote healing. What most people don”t know is that […]
Why Things Hurt
The following video is entitled “Why Things Hurt”. The presenter in the video is Lorimer Mosely who is a neuroscientist in Australia. He describes several interesting pain experiments in which a person’s pain perception is altered by changing the context of pain. Lots of cool stuff here. The highlight for me is the last 90 […]
5 Self Help Tips for Living Better with Arthritis
Ease the Pain caused by Arthritis Arthritis has become an epidemic among Americans and many of us feel the effects of the disease when first get moving in the morning. Most of us know that this is a chronic condition that becomes more complicated as the disease progresses but there are a few things […]
Best Back Pain Patient Resource I’ve Read
The Tasmanian Health Organisation South has put out one of the best low back pain pamphlets that I ever seen. It is very simple without any fancy graphics but their message is spot-on. A copy of the pamphlet can be found here. What I like about this information is that it is re-assuring and accurate […]
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