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My granddaughter wasn’t feeling well so she was lying on the sofa and she was complaining of a headache.  When I looked at her I saw that the pillows were positioned in a way that brought her chin down toward her chest (contracting a muscle called the scalenes, and putting pressure on a bundle of […]

Hope you had a wonderful day.  If you’re like me, you ate too much….but it was soooo good that it was worth it! The weather is gloomy here in NY, but I’m going out fast-walking anyway.  If you are also going to try to run off some of the food you ate yesterday, please be

My grandson Martin is an excellent soccer player. Yesterday he mentioned that his calves hurt so I took a look and his right calf felt like stone, it was amazing that he hadn’t torn his Achilles tendon! Your calf muscles originate at the back of your knee and then merge into your Achilles tendon. The

I’m having an interesting experience right now, not one I would have chosen but if you get handed lemons, make lemonade. On Tuesday I broke my left ankle, in fact both ankle bones were broken so my foot just fell out of the joint. Weird feeling!  UNC Orthopedics is wonderful, I met some excellent Nurse

Today I was so grateful that I know how to do self-treatments!  On Thursday the doctor finally did the surgery to fix my broken ankle and now I’m two plates and many screws heavier…I guess I’ll be setting off alarms at the airport.  It hurts although not as bad as when I first broke the

Today I was sitting on the sofa, with my leg up (“nose to toes” level, according to my doctor) and I received such a nice phone call. A woman who had previously bought my Pain Free Living ebook and healed several nagging issues called to tell me she lost her ebook when her computer crashed and I

I’m really stuck in a chair because of this broken ankle and it’s making me focus on other parts of my body that are aching  since they are being repetitively strained.  The biggest immediate problem is my hamstrings. Your hamstrings originate at the base of your posterior pelvis and then travel down the back of

Today I had a message on one of the forums I monitor on the internet.  The man has lung cancer and he is now having pain in his shoulder and under his shoulder blade. All the doctors want to do is give him pain pills and it made me think of so many of the

One thing that this ankle break has done is prove to me that I want to finally do what I’ve had on my mind for years…go out and teach as many people as I can nationwide. Thank heaven I know how to self-treat because so many things have been hurting: my hamstrings from holding my

It’s hard to believe that we’re only hours away from 2011!  Time flies and we get so busy that we don’t really design our lives, too many people just keep putting out daily “fires” and doing what needs to be done just to survive. Sitting here with my broken ankle has forced me to slow