Yes, I tend to talk a lot about posture, but this time around I don’t mean that question in the postural sense. I am asking about your attitude toward challenges in life. Thomas Jefferson once said:
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ACL surgery efficacy questioned again
A study published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine questions the effectiveness of ACL surgery in restoring health to injured knees. Here’s a brief summary from the New York Times: Over two years, the injured knees were assessed using a comprehensive numerical score that rated pain, function during activity and other measures. At [...]
Make your sleep more restful
Sleep should be a restful period, but for a lot of people with chronic pain, it’s not. For some reason, sleeping actually seems to make pain and fatigue worse. Frustrating? Yes. Incomprehensible? No. When pain is a result of poor posture, sleeping can often exacerbate the pain. Beds often tweak the body in ways that [...]
Why is it so hard to make a fake knee?
Find out why making a fake knee can be so hard, and why it’s practically impossible to make one as good as a biological one.
Wrist pain taught me to stand up straight
I was a student at UCLA. I worked in an on-campus computer lab. One winter, I injured my right shoulder in mid-air while snowboarding. I struggled to figure out how to help my shoulder heal, but nothing was helping. Physical therapy wasn’t helping. Sitting on my butt, chatting online, and updating my friendster profile while [...]
Heel pain? What are your shoulders doing?
Everything is connected — in your personal life, in business, in your body. I have a client who can tell you personally just how much those connections matter. We’ll call him “Mr. Twister.” Mr. Twister had pain in his feet that wasn’t caused by anything going on anywhere near his feet. Take a look at [...]
The diction of doom
The way the medical world views pain dooms its victims to failure. What’s shocking is that it stems from a lack of linguistic precision. Think about this example. Your friend is lying in bed, sweating and coughing and complaining of congestion. His temperature is 103 degrees. He feels dizzy and weak and occasionally cold. You [...]
Another back ache bites the dust
Got some more pictures for you of someone who’s suffered with back pain for about 6 years. Not just back pain, but searing, debilitating back pain. Now, to be clear and upfront, he’s still got some pain lingering around, but he’s moving very obviously in the right direction. For someone who’s had nonstop pain for [...]
Wisdom comes from failure
I just wanted to share a quick quote that is truly relevant to the way we treat our bodies and how we bring them back to health. We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do by finding out what we will not do. ~Samuel Smiles As we [...]
Ever woken up with back pain?
Have you ever woken up from a good night’s rest to find your back in miserable spasm? You can’t turn to the side. Every step you take is like having someone twist the knife that someone else must’ve jammed into your back while you were sleeping? In fact, I just had this same experience a [...]
