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Did stress take its toll on you in 2011? Did it scatter your brain or sit on your shoulders? Does stress always go straight to your back and shoulders no matter how often you do your postural exercises?
If you’d like to learn to how to control stress on a daily basis with simple, practical, [...]
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” ~Kenji Miyazawa
I came across this quote last week and found it particularly poignant.
When I was in the worst throes of pain, I used to feel hopeless and helpless. There seemed to be nothing that could be done. The doctor’s orders were [...]
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:
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 [...]
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 [...]
Chronic pain is frustrating precisely because it seems like you’ll never beat it. Everywhere you turn, someone is telling you that pain is just a necessary part of aging and that there’s nothing you can do about it. Doctors are telling you that some injuries just don’t heal, so tough cookies. Have some pills.
As [...]
Are you a San Diegan suffering from chronic pain, looking for answers but finding nothing but half-truths, half-solutions, and half-baked ideas?
Come to a free workshop, hosted here at the Upright Health office! You’ll get vital information that will show you the way to get out of pain and get back to living your life! The evening will be one hour long with two information-packed talks by Samantha Hua of Happy Food Health and Matt Hsu of Upright Health.
I saw something called the Seat Assist while walking by a medical supply store in San Francisco a few months ago, and it really got my brain up in a tizzy.
While I know the people behind the product (and a wide array of products like it) are only looking to help reduce [...]
Slowing down because of chronic pain isn’t a long term solution. It’s a stop-gap measure until you find a long term solution.
Have you ever heard an alternative health practitioner tell you that they are helping you unlock your potential to heal yourself, only to find out after seeing them fifteen times that they actually don’t know how to help you heal yourself?
BECOME A FAN OF GOOD POSTURE
