A client came into the office today and told me that his thumbs were sore, so much so that he could hardly hold the steering wheel to drive to my office. He’s a tennis player and a few days ago he played right after a heavy rain, so the tennis ball was soaking wet. He […]
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Trigger Finger Release – Muscles Need to Be Treated: Trigger finger release techniques are simple to do when you learn just a few focused points in your forearm. The debilitating effects of trigger finger are caused by the flexor muscles that move your fingers down (so you can tap on the table) and the extensor
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I’ve been moderating a forum on my websites for many years, and also I’m the Repetitive Strain Injury expert on www.allexperts.com.my for about 8 years. All of the threads on the different forums are about everything from headaches, whiplash, frozen shoulder, carpal tunnel syndrome, to low back pain, sciatica, knee pain, shinsplints, plantar fasciitis, and any other
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Stretching is NOT a Good Calf Cramp Remedy! One thing that I’ve seen repeatedly over the years is that when a person gets a sudden Charlie horse, or violent calf cramp in his/her calf, the first remedy they try to do is stretch. This is the exact opposite thing of what you need to do,
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by Julie Donnelly – The Pain Relief Expert I moderate several online forums and today a runner posted a message about pain in his big toe joint. He only feels the pain when he curls his toes down. He had been to the foot doctor, who couldn’t understand why it only hurt on the downward curl and
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This morning I was watching my grandson’s soccer game and I ended up helping one of the parents who had a serious headache that ended up being the result of tight muscles pulling his cervical vertebrae out of alignment. He was amazed when I started to tell him about the levator scapulae muscle and how
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Today I received an email from a woman named Laree Draper. Several weeks ago I heard fromLaree, telling me that she had read one of my articles and wanted permission to put it into her blog. After looking at her blog to make sure I would be happy to have my name on her site,
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Pain in the posterior knee was a topic today while I was answering my forum. As I was answering the post, I realized that most people don’t understand how muscle memory will cause a muscle to stay contracted even when we want to stretch it, so I want to explain it here. Muscle memory is a
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Today I spoke to a woman who was having a strange feeling in her body — not pain, and not in her organs, but a feeling she couldn’t explain in her buttocks, like she was sitting on a rolled up towel. She had all of the tests that the doctors could imagine, and nothing was
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A bone bruise is ugly…it takes (what seems like) FOREVER to heal! I used to run a lot and, thanks to knowing how to self-treat, I never really had any problems. Oh, I definitely did get repetitive strain injuries, but I would treat the muscles immediately and it would quickly clear up. Then I did
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