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...
Middle Back Pain: What’s Really Causing It And Can It Be Relieved?
As humans, most of us take movement for granted. The vast majority of us have been moving almost thoughtlessly for as long as we can remember. For some of us, we may only have become cognizant of that after we broke a bone while at the playground. Suddenly, some of...
Compensatory Pain: Experiencing Pain Where There Should Be No Pain
“We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention.” - Marilyn Ferguson One could easily say that we have trained our bodies over time to cope with pain. For most of us it is largely the minor and merely annoying pains that we experience...
Resolving To Be Fit And Pain Free This New Year
“When you're at the gym feeling like you'll never be one of those people who look like they've been at it their entire lives, remember that they all started somewhere.” - Unknown We all do it. We’re speaking of New Year’s resolutions, of course. A time-honored...
Pain And Depression: Staying Safe And Healthy For The Holidays
“I don’t believe in pain management anymore; I believe in trying to cure persistent pain.” - Dr. Moskowitz Anyone who has experienced and suffered from ongoing or chronic pain knows of the emotional toll that it can have. The effects of pain can transcend the physical...
The Unexpected Effects Of Interrupted Exercise Or Workouts
“Once you are exercising regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it.” – Erin Gray Yet, it happens. Maybe the weather became unexpectedly severe, and you had to miss out on some fitness walks or your regular runs. Perhaps it was COVID or some other illness or injury...
Self-Care Tips For Avoiding And Managing Lower Back Pain
My favorite childhood memory is my back not hurting.” - Anonymous It has been something of a cultural meme since probably the beginning of recorded history. People complain about back pain and, especially, as they get older. From minor backaches in the morning after...