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...
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...