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You probably know someone who’s complained about tennis elbow in the past. And their doctor probably mentioned epicondylitis or tendinitis. And if you’ve been alive long enough to hear “-itis” a few times, you know that that suffix means there’s inflammation, and you should ice the heck out of it.
Guess what? Research shows that tennis elbow ISN’T about inflammation. In fact, the pain from repetitive motions isn’t from inflammation at all! Whether it’s typing, tennis, or track and field…
In pain in San Diego and considering a cortisone shot? You should seriously reconsider that option.
This is important for you and those you care about.
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A lot of people ask me, “Can I really change my posture?” And the answer is an unequivocal yes. Your posture shows us what your muscles are doing. Your muscles are positioning the bones in specific pattern. If you can change the muscle actions, you can change the bone patterns. That’s as complex as posture [...]
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:
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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