You’ve been told you have sciatic nerve pain running down the back of your thigh into your calf muscle causing sciatica pain. This trapped nerve pain in your leg can be a continuous ache or pain that goes from the time you wake up in the morning to the time you eventually fall asleep, probably… Continue Reading
Category Archives: General Health
Piriformis Syndrome – A Real Pain in Bum
Maybe you have a pain in your left or right bum cheek, maybe you have a sciatica pain going down your leg, did you know it could be a piriformis syndrome problem. Your sciatic nerve can get trapped at the spine from a herniated disc or arthritis changes, but it could also get pinched in… Continue Reading
Home Neck Traction for Neck Pain Relief
When you have a neck pain sometimes you feel like if only someone could traction my neck to take the pressure off the nerve. You might have had a physio or chiropractor do some neck traction on you and felt the difference and wanted to do that yourself at home. Today I want to look… Continue Reading
The Diabetes Diet ~ Hope for Type 2 Diabetics
In the news is the latest research on type 2 diabetes normalising their sugar levels on the diabetes diet coming out of Newcastle. This has caught the attention of the press and news agencies because of the dramatic changes the 11 type 2 diabetic participants achieved in the study¹ published the June 2011 edition of… Continue Reading
The Deflame Diet ~ Anti-Inflammatory Foods For Pain Relief
We all realise how food choices in our diets affects our general health and well being. Even in muscle or joint pain inflammatory conditions like gout or arthritis, diet plays a pivotal role. This point really came home recently for me again, when after years of telling my mum about using food as a medicine and eating… Continue Reading
CCSVI and Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis is a chronic neurological condition that has recently had MS patients buzzing around something called CCSVI. CCSVI stands for chronic cerebro-spinal venous insufficiency and was discovered by an Italian scientist. I stumbled across CCSVI on the internet and wanted to share what I found out about this type of controversial new treatment for multiple sclerosis… Continue Reading
Chronic Neck Pain Causes & Crazy Joint Cracking Video
Chronic neck pain really is a pain in the neck. I have seen most people can handle chronic lower back pain better than they can chronic neck pain and stiffness. I think, this is because the lower back is farther away from your brain, so I think you can “cut it off” easier from your… Continue Reading
When Pain Becomes a Disease – Chronic Pain
Chronic pain is a problem for many people unfortunately in the world. Chronic pain can be anywhere in the body and you may have heard, for example, or you might be experiencing a chronic neck pain or chronic low back pain. So what exactly is meant by chronic pain and why does chronic pain occur… Continue Reading
Kinesio Tape – That Coloured Taping on Athletes
You may have recently seen that coloured Kinesio tape used on athletes on TV. You not might have realised what exactly that coloured tape stuff is on them and why the athletes are wearing it. I wanted to find out more about Kinesio® Tex Tape and why the kinesio taping method is used by different healthcare… Continue Reading
Turning Your Discs Blue Could Be Good For Your Low Back Pain
Yes blue could be the new you of the future after what I read today. In a recent study ¹ on chronic low back pain patients who had back pain coming from a disc in their lower backs were injected with methylene blue. You might know methylene blue from your chemistry “Blue Bottle” experiment in… Continue Reading
