Today in the USA we are celebrating the 4th of July – our Independence Day. People so often overlook the real reason for holidays that it’s good to give a moment to honor the “reason for the season.” Today I appreciate the men who took great risk to separate our country from England and fought […]

Hi, This week several people on our TriggerPoint Yoga Facebook page were talking about muscle memory and why repetitive movements will cause the muscles to shorten and cause joint pain and stiffness.  I decided that this would be the topic for today’s blog post. Muscle memory, according to Wikipedia, is only discussed in terms of how it works with the

The definition of the word “fibromyalgia” is: Fibro/fiber, my/muscle, algia/pain….so it means “pain in a muscle fiber.” Yet, several doctors have told me that the medical world looks at the definition as “pain from an unknown source.” Of course, this makes sense when you hear other things these same physicians told me. In 1999 one

Hi, Today I had a Skype consultation with a man who lives in England and is an avid golf player, playing every day for months at a time.  It was no surprise to me that he was suffering from low back pain that he described as actually a pain that seems to pull his rib

Hi, Every now and then I get a different type of repetitive strain injury question on one of the forums that I moderate on the internet.  Today I received this message and I haven’t spoken about this in a long time, so I thought I’d share it with you.  Here’s the message: Hi Julie, I’ve

This week I had a radio interview that ended up talking a bit about how people who have been diagnosed with a condition – any condition, but we’ll focus on diabetes and arthritis today – will have all their aches and pains lumped into that condition. It has always amazed me!  Once a person has

Today I had a message from someone who had a severe case of jaw pain which included clicking, and shooting pain into her head.  I thought this would be a good topic to explain to you.  If you know anyone who is suffering from TMJ, or simply jaw pain, please share this blog with him/her.