I end up being my own best lab as to what is hurting lately, giving me lots of topics to talk about here on the blog. Today I started having some serious pain along my left ribcage, mostly under my arm all the way down to the bottom of my ribs and a bit toward […]

Today I received an email from a reader of this blog.  I get so many questions from people (I moderate several forums and blogs) that I’ve asked my webmaster to fix it so blog questions will either go straight to the free forum or the person can order a telephone or email consultation.  However I

Hi, It sounds like Pollyanna but I’ve always wanted to make the world a better place because I lived here. I know that’s what lead me to the work I do teaching people how to self-treat for chronic pain caused by tight muscles.  Each time someone sends me an email, or posts a thank you

Hi, As you know I am the moderator for several forums on the internet.  On one of them I received this message: I strained my right rhomboid 10 years ago while playing baseball in high school. The pain is felt in the rhomboid as well as in the front of the shoulder and in the neck. I

Hi, Every day I receive so many emails from people in pain. Unfortunately I can’t answer all of them because I can only work so many hours for free and I’m stretching my limit already.  One way I can do it is to add a message here and then respond as a blog post. Yesterday

Hi, I’ve worked with thousands of people all over the world and every single time I get an email or a forum message telling me that they are out of pain, I feel fulfilled in what I do for a living.  Today was one of those days. I want to share this one with you

Hi, This broken ankle has given me the opportunity to spend the last six weeks at my daughter’s house. Thank heaven for Anne-Marie and her husband, Rob, I don’t know what I would have done without them. Meanwhile, I’ve been seeing something that is so wrong that I wish parents across the country would start

Back in November I was stopped while making a left turn. I looked in my rear view mirror and I saw a car about eight car lengths behind me so I wasn’t concerned. But then I saw that the car wasn’t slowing down at all, and she quickly ran into me doing around 55-60mph.  Thank

Hi, As I move through this broken ankle situation I see how important it is that I know how to self-treat and release the spasms that are shortening  the insertion points on the muscle fibers and stressing the joint, in this case the movement of my ankle. The accident was exactly two months ago and

On one of the forums that I moderate, a member was saying that she gets terrible headaches where she feels she can’t even hold her head up straight.  As she described the terrible pain, saying she had been to her physician and had many tests done which were unsuccessful at finding  the answer, it became