Hi, I was reading a back issue of Reader’s Digest and found an article titled 50 Secrets Your Surgeon Won’t Tell You. It was very interesting and worthwhile sharing with anyone who may now or eventually need surgery, but one “Secret” that was especially interesting had to do with back pain. Written by Kevin B. Jones, M.D., […]

I just read an interesting article in the New England Journal of Medicine titled Skeletal Fluorosis Due to Excessive Tea Drinking. The article was showing bone deformity that was caused by drinking an estimated fluoride intake, >20 mg per day. While that is an extreme amount, and in this case was due to the woman drinking a pitcher

My good friend and business partner, Ana Johnson, is an amazing woman. Ana is an athlete (ultracyclist), an extraordinary yoga teacher, and a woman who is determined to stay healthy from eating properly and otherwise caring for her body so she can live to be 130 years old (Okay…I may be exaggerating that a little

Hi, This week I was doing some research on YouTube and short commercials pop up before you can watch the video selected. Usually I click on the “skip ad” button, but this one sounded interesting so I decided to watch it. I’m so grateful I made that decision! This short ad says so much that

My heart goes out to everyone who was at the Boston Marathon, what a nightmare! If you were there, or if you know someone who was affected by this tragedy, please accept my caring concern. Right now the only thing I can think of to help is to donate blood to the Red Cross. I

Hi, Today I received an interesting message on one of the forums that I moderate and I want to share it with you. The woman has a case of frozen shoulder, a really painful condition that can vary in severity from mild discomfort and flexibility issues, to incredible pain and serious debilitating range-of-motion problems. Here

Yesterday I had an interesting (??) thing happen to me. My feet had been absolutely fine all day, I did my normal walking in the morning and had no problem. Then suddenly the bone at the base of my left big toe felt like it was hit with a hammer! I couldn’t put any pressure

Hi, This morning I was roaming around YouTube and I found a relaxation meditation that is fantastic. Since the title of this blog is Pain-Free Living, I think this meditation fits right in to a topic that causes so much pain to many of my readers. The stress of worrying about how to pay the bills,

Hi, I just can’t keep this secret any longer! My life-long goal was always to make the world a better place because I lived. That goal was realized in an unusual way, and was the catalyst to starting my career as a massage therapist, when by just rubbing his back I had been able to

Hi, I called this blog Pain-Free Living because my work with thousands of people who were suffering from the aches and pains that are caused by tight muscles. As time went along I realized that when I worked with so many of my clients we had expanded our relationship to discussing the aches and pains that happen