Simple Exercise to Decompress Your Spine

Tweet Are you stuck at a desk job, sitting all day long?  That’s probably THE biggest complaint I hear on a daily basis.  You go to work and sit for eight hours, getting up just long enough to fetch lunch (if you’re lucky) and then right back to sitting again.  And at the end of [...]

Warning: Are You Making THIS Mistake When Trying to Get Lower Back Pain Relief?

Tweet Lower back pain usually doesn’t start in the lower back. In fact, 9 times out of 10, pain isn’t happening where you’re experiencing the symptoms. Back pain happens not because there is is dysfunction in the spine but because there is dysfunction in one of the support systems for the spine, particularly the ankles, [...]

Do Not, I repeat, DO NOT Waste $869 on an Ergonomic Desk Chair

Tweet We’ve all been there.  You’re on a lightning streak of productivity.  You’re camped in front of your computer, coffee mug steaming up an inspirational storm next to your laptop, fingers floating over the keyboard like a concert pianists’, pages flowing onto your screen almost as fast as you can get the words into your [...]

Book Review: The 7 Day Back Pain Cure by Jesse Cannone

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Tweet My biggest beef with back pain books and articles is their limited and narrow thinking.  The majority of the literature available for back pain sufferers looks at back pain from one angle and one angle only, claiming to have found the “cure-all” for your aching spine.  Some say it’s all in your head while [...]

Can Resistance Training Speed Lower Back Pain Recovery?

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Tweet Lower back pain is perhaps the most wide-spread health affliction in western cultures. 81 million Americans report experiencing lower back pain at some point in their lives, and lower back pain is the second most common reason for visiting a medical doctor. All this pain racks up a $50 billion dollar medical bill every [...]

Arnica: The Pain Reliever No Household Should Be Without

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Tweet Aches and pains happen, especially when you’re training at the gym or exerting yourself in any heavy lifting activity, like moving. And as we age, we’re prone to other painful conditions like osteoarthritis. But you don’t have to suffer with muscle soreness and stiffness. You can get relief without risking some of the frightening [...]

Pain, Pain, Go Away…The 7 Mistakes That Are Making Your Pain Persist

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Tweet So often, pain plagues us for years, rearing its ugly head at the most inopportune times, like right before a sporting event, while we’re on vacation, or when the weather finally turns to sun and it’s time to get outside and play. Even worse, it can be a persistent thorn in your side for [...]