When Work Is A Pain In The Neck – Literally
“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.” ― Robert Fulghum Occasional neck pain or soreness is a commonly occurring condition for most people. Most of us have fallen asleep...
Pain And Performance Can Mean Pain-Free And High Performance
“Too often people don't distinguish between the discomfort that comes from fatigue and the feeling of pain.” - Bryce Hastings, Physiotherapist and Les Mills Head of Research No pain, no gain. We’ve all heard it. And many of us may have subscribed to it. But as...
Taking Aim At A Restored Gait And Relief From Pain
“Walking is the natural recreation for a person who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.” – Leslie Stephen As humans, most of us engage in physical movement every day. Some more than others, of course, and some by...
When Your Middle Back Pain Doesn’t ‘Go Away’ On Its Own
While this sentiment may be humorous on its face, the truth is that many of us don’t do things that we might enjoy, or simply should do, because of a “bad back.’ Back pain can present itself in a myriad of degrees and locations. The structure of the human body we...
Dehydration, Underhydration, And Muscle Pain
Although we use the term “dehydration” or speak of being “dehydrated” rather than underhydrated or the state of underhydration, the latter is considered technically correct. While it is not a strict usage, one way of thinking about the terms is that dehydration is an...
When Chronic Hand Pain Makes Daily Life Activities Difficult
“The hand is the visible part of the brain.” - Immanuel Kant Humans are somewhat unique in the animal kingdom for a several reasons, and at the top of that list is that fact that we are bipedal - we walk upright on two limbs and use our feet quite extensively for...
Maintaining Health And Fitness While Staying Pain Free As You Age
“Home, home again. I like to be here when I can and when I come home cold and tired, it's good to warm my bones beside the fire.” - Pink Floyd It is a simple yet inescapable fact that we are all getting older. And with this aging process, there are inevitable changes...
Compensation Pain: When It Hurts Where It Shouldn’t
“Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.” ― George Orwell, 1984 Most of us do not enjoy being in pain. Fleeting, temporary, passing pain is bearable. And it...
New Year, New Body, No Pain
“Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.” - Tony Robbins Many people look to the new year as a fresh opportunity to improve their health, their level of fitness, and their physique. And this almost always involves...
Living With Chronic Pain: Getting Better, Not Just Getting Along
“I don’t believe in pain management anymore, I believe in trying to cure persistent pain.” - Michael Moskowitz, MD, M.P.H. There are a multitude of chronic pain types and a variety of reasons why people suffer from long-term or recurring pain. While we understand that...