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...
Proper Posture And Gait For Avoiding Pain
“Postural exercises such as yoga, pilates and martial arts are about avoiding pain and injury as much as helping you feel good. Attractive men and women have good posture.” – Liz Miller Being “attractive” may be nice, but avoiding pain and injury is paramount for...
Finding Relief From Chronic Wrist Pain – It’s All In The Wrist
“The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.” - Alfred Austin With spring just around the corner, activities such as gardening beckon. Unless you are suffering from...
Preventing Pain While Getting Fit Again
“Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.” - Lee Haney Because so many of us have had to restructure, scale back, or even curtail our accustomed fitness practices and...
Avoiding Chronic Back Pain From Desk-Bound Work
“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.” - Will Rogers It doesn’t matter whether we are working at the office or working from home - at our desks and cubicles in town, or at the kitchen table at home, we’re still sitting most of...