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Are you approaching 50 or 60 years old? Or maybe you’re at the leading edge of the Baby Boomer generation and you’re turning 65…and aches and pains are starting to slow you down. This is “Baby Boomer-itis, and… It doesn’t have to happen! Through the years, as a whole, our generation has been the most active […]

Stomach sleeping is really a challenge because it requires changing your unconscious habit, yet this is a change that will benefit you in more ways than you can imagine. As your holding your head to one side or the other, your cervical vertebrae will be impinging the nerves. So you could be having sinus problems,

…well, it actually isn’t the driving that is the pain, but pain can come from the repetitive strain of sitting for hours. Pain can be caused by your foot pressing on the gas and brake pedals, yet another repetitive strain injury. This weekend I was up in Cooperstown, NY to visit family and to join

One of my new neighbor’s is a quilter and she does beautiful work. I just moved here, and she was moving out this coming weekend. Last week she was complaining to me that her thumb was so painful that she was sure she had arthritis. Then she told me that the burning pain goes all

Here in Chapel Hill we have a Whole Foods market, and I’m so happy because now it’s so easy to get organic foods of every kind. If you haven’t had the chance to go to Whole Foods, it’s a real experience! I’m not going to get crazy about what I’m eating because I really believe

It’s a terrible thing when a person has pain, goes to their doctor and is sent for PT, or just given drugs to mask the pain, and it still doesn’t go away. On Wednesday, in my office here in Chapel Hill, NC, I worked on a client who started her nightmare by simply buying new

Stretching Hamstrings Can Cause Them to Tear “Don’t stretch your hamstrings” is the opposite advice to that given to the vast majority of athletes, especially runners. There is good reason to stop before you stretch, and consider why your hamstrings feel tight in the first place. I received a message about a hamstring injury on one of

“Procrastination is a thief of time.” I read that in a Reader’s Digest many years ago, and have thought about it frequently. Most of the time I don’t procrastinate….unless it’s something I don’t want to be doing in the first place. Do you find that to be the case with you? Pain isn’t just physical, mental “pain”

I’m really excited to finally be able to share a project that I’ve been working on for almost a year. A long time ago, before I ever even thought about becoming a massage therapist, I tried to do Yoga so I could stretch my muscles, and the pain ended up being so bad that I

Several years ago I had a client who was suffering from IBS – Irritable Bowel Syndrome. The condition had weakened her to the point where she weighed about 75 lbs and couldn’t hold any food in her system at all. The massages she received were to calm her down and help her to relax. During