By Susan Bratton Pain can severely impact your libido, but it doesn't have to destroy your intimacy. Pain numbs your sex drive because desire is "life force.” Desire can get used up battling illness or negative emotions. Pain medications, including anti-depressants that use SSRI’s produce a state of satiety due to r … Read More
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Spinal stenosis is a condition in which the spinal canal narrows, compressing or "squeezing” the spinal cord and nerves inside. ("Stenosis” means "narrowing” in Greek.) Most commonly, the narrowing occurs in the lower back, which is called "lumbar spinal stenosis.” (When it occurs in the neck, it’s called "cervical spinal st … Read More
If you’ve gotten to this point and you’re still experiencing pain, don’t lose hope. Your diet could have a lot to do with it. First, let me encourage you to continue with the muscle-balance therapy, trigger point therapy, proteolytic enzymes and natural pain relief creams. Some people with particularly stubborn, chr … Read More
If you’ve used the combination of Muscle-Balance therapy, trigger-point therapy, and inversion therapy for several weeks and you’re still experiencing pain, it may be time to evaluate your emotional state of mind. I’ve found that, in most cases, if someone is not feeling a lot better by the time they’ve adopted these thre … Read More
For most people, short-term pain relief involves taking some type of anti-inflammatory medication–Advil and Motrin being the most popular over-the-counter versions. These medications were originally designed to be used only once in a while, but many people now rely on them on a daily basis. Considering the dangers–heav … Read More
For most people, short-term pain relief involves taking some type of anti-inflammatory medication–Advil and Motrin being the most popular over-the-counter versions. These medications were originally designed to be used only once in a while, but many people now rely on them on a daily basis. Considering the dangers– … Read More
A number of back-pain sufferers I work with tell me they’re in way too much pain to take the steps needed for long-term relief. While they’re looking forward to solving their back pain problem once and for all, they can barely move right now. Let me now address the topic of short-term pain relief. Sometimes it’s necessa … Read More
Most back-pain situations that don’t fall into the other categories still are the result of problems in the mind, body, and/or diet–all which are addressed here. You will be performing your own self-assessment as you go through the steps, which will help you determine exactly what you need to do to feel better, and it als … Read More
The sacroiliac (SI) joint connects the base of the spine to the pelvis. In other words, it joins the sacrum (the triangular bone at the bottom of the spine) with the pelvis at two connection points. (You can see these from the outside as two "dimples” on each side of the lower back, at the belt line.) It’s small, but very … Read More