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Heel Pain

For a few months or so I would get heel pain as I stepped out of bed in the morning, the pain would dissipate as I moved and then vanish. It would reappear after sitting for awhile at times but would never last for long. It did not prevent me from walking with the kids or working out. It seemed to only be a problem on some mornings and rarely after sitting for a while. Then recently, the pain did not dissipate as the day went on. It was on and off all day long. I thought I may have … Continue reading →

How Yoga Benefits Your Joints

Yoga has been known for millennia to have abundant health benefits. Yoga improves circulation, flexibility, strength, balance, oxygenation of the body and more. The benefits are not confined to the muscles and organs of the body. A regular yoga practice also helps the joints. Flexibility is a known benefit of yoga, but many people think of muscle flexibility. Flexibility in the joints helps to improve strength and this prevents injury. In fact, yoga is often used therapeutically to increase flexibility and heal a wide range of injuries and health conditions. Yoga increases strength in the muscles and the joints. Strong … Continue reading →

Alternative Treatments for Pain

While most of the time we think about using medication to ease pain, the reality is that sometimes other treatments are better, sometimes because these other treatments can bring better relief and sometimes because personal preference or a physical condition makes us seek out other ways to deal with the pain. There is growing evidence that alternative treatments can be very effective with fewer side effects than those that are associated with pain medication. Plus, growing evidence shows that the mind/body connection may be more effective in managing pain long term. Here are some of the more common alternative treatments … Continue reading →

Yoga for Hip Pain

Yoga offers pain relief benefits for many conditions and areas of the body, including the hips. Hip pain can be caused by several factors, such as tight hips or health conditions like osteoarthritis. A growing number of people are seeking alternative therapies to chronic pain. One of these is yoga, which is an ancient practice that offers many physical benefits and has been used for over 2000 years for the treatment of a wide range of conditions. The poses in yoga can help to open and stretch the hips, which will reduce pain. There are several ways in which yoga … Continue reading →

Real Time Pain Relief Sample

If you are one of the many Americans that are plagued by pain then here is your chance to try Real Time Pain Relief for free. Real Time Pain Relief is a topical cream that is recommended by doctors to help with the relief of muscle aches and pain. The manufacturers of Real Time Pain Relief claim that RTPR has ingredients that not only relieve your pain, but that restores your pain tolerance level to its natural state if you have been using other pain medications. They also state that Real Time Pain Relief helps to heal any damaged tissues … Continue reading →

Dealing With Aches and Pains

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Aches and pains are pretty common during pregnancy. They are so common that it’s unusual if you don’t have them. Headaches, backaches and sore hips and joints pretty much come with the territory. The tricky part is dealing with the pain in such a way that will not present any risk to the baby. You may have popped two or three Ibuprofen before you were pregnant, but it’s no longer so simple. While some over the counter pain relievers, such as Acetaminophen, are perfectly safe during pregnancy, other common pain killers, like Aspirin, should be avoided. For those who want … Continue reading →

Six Causes for Jaw Pain

Sometimes, a health issue is straightforward: you experience pain in an area of the body, and that’s where the problem is. Sometimes, where it hurts isn’t where the problem actually is. The jaw is an area of the body where there’s a few different things going on — you’ve got your teeth and sinuses and ears in close proximity, and pain in any one of those three could leave you with an achy jaw. So what could that jaw pain be? If the pain appears at the hinge of your jaw when you open your mouth wide, there may be … Continue reading →

Do Growing Pains Really Exist?

Every once in a while, my eldest son will complain that he can’t sleep because his legs hurt. We will inspect his legs and other parts of his body to make sure that he isn’t ill or injured, and we come up with nothing. There is no redness, swelling, bruising or other outward signs of something wrong. Joints don’t make any noise and skin is in intact. It isn’t even time for school or a hated chore. What then could be wrong? When I was little, I remember my parents calling these growing pains, a mysterious pain, usually in the … Continue reading →

Relieving the Pain of Bursitis

Bursae are little sacs of fluid throughout the body. There are eight bursae around each shoulder and eleven around each knee. Each side of the body has dozens of bursae that help your joints work without friction and pain. When the bursae are working right, you’d never know they were there! But when something’s not right with even one little sac of fluid, you’ll know it. Pain is the number one symptom of bursitis — and it’s a pain that comes and goes. The best thing you can do when bursitis flares up is rest. Stop whatever you’re doing that … Continue reading →

Those Painful Bunions!

Bunions first appear as a bump along the side of your foot at the base of the great toe or the big toe as most people call it. The actual name for this toe joint is called the MTP joint or metatarsophalangeal joint. This toe joint becomes enlarged and thus moves the other toes towards the others. As it does this all the toes become out of whack and end up causing pain. You will probably have redness and swelling in this area as well. This deformity can also occur on the other end where the little toe is and … Continue reading →