When Walking For Fitness Results In Foot Muscle Pain
There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don’t allow yourself to become one of them. – Ralph Marston It seems that for decades now, the world that we know here in America has been caught up in a fitness frenzy that has gone from fitness trends and fads...
When New Year’s Fitness Resolutions Result In Shoulder Pain Or Knee Pain
“If you are a human being, you probably use the beginning of every year to reflect on the past year, make decisions, and set resolutions for the New Year. It is a good thing to make resolutions, but it takes a good deal of discipline and commitment to get results that...
Three Common Areas Of The Foot That Can Have Chronic Pain
“Walking is cheap, fun, safe and acceptable exercise.” – Annie Taylor Research and experience have proven that walking can be as beneficial as running or most any other exercise when it comes to weight loss, improving cardio fitness, and increasing stamina and...
Dealing With Chronic Knee Pain And Its Treatment
“A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.” —Paul D. White For some it’s simply time and wear. For others, it’s overuse or acute trauma such as an injury. Regardless of the...
Taking The Right Steps To Treating Foot Muscle Pain
“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” - Khalil Gibran Our feet, though lowly and often ill-regarded, are our chief means of locomotion. In other words, without them, we would be hard-pressed to get...
When You Train Hard, Play Hard – And Get Hurt
“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” - Arthur C. Clarke We are a society of active people. Despite the recurring news stories warning us of the increasing incidence of obesity and the...
The Dark Side Of Technology And Pain
“Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.” - John Tudor We love our tech. It’s estimated that, on average, video gamers spend six hours and twenty minutes each week playing games. And according to one article, 23...
Considering The Common Causes Of Chronic Pain
“Healing doesn’t mean that the pain never existed. It means the damage no longer controls the lives.” - Unknown Chronic pain can range in severity from being an aggravating annoyance to being crippling and debilitating. More than 1.5 billion people around the world...
Getting In Shape And Staying That Way While Being Pain Free
“If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.” – Hippocrates Not everyone wants to be an athlete. But almost everyone wants to be healthy and fit. The...
When You Need Help For Your Hand: Treating Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
“The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.” - Jacob Bronowski Carpal tunnel syndrome. At one time it seemed that almost everyone knew someone who suffered from it or suffered from it themselves. In fact, it was estimated in an article at the American Academy of Family...