Posts Tagged ‘Pain’

How to Control Body Pain And Symptoms

January 28th, 2010 admin

Body pain can be caused by a number of factors, including inflamed joints, broken bones, pulled muscles or tendons and arthritis. Over time, the pain can become a nuisance and have a negative impact on a person’s lifestyle. There are also a number of diseases that can cause your body to feel pain.

Common causes of body pain symptoms: -

1. Unusual exertion or overuse, including strains or sprains
2. Accidental injury including fracture
3. Gout (especially found in the big toe)
4. Osteoarthritis – degenerative joint disease
5. Septic arthritis
6. Tendinitis
7. Bursitis
8. Infectious diseases, including
9. Chondromalacia patellae
10. Osteomyelitis

* Influenza
* Measles
* Rheumatic fever
* Epstein-Barr viral syndrome
* Hepatitis
* Mumps
* Rubella
* Vermicelli
For those who are seeking home remedies for pain, the following treatments will help:
* Prepare ginger tea by boiling fresh ginger every day. Regular drinking of the tea will help boost the body’s immune system, making it more resistant to pain.
* Apply ointments or paste made from grounding peppermint or spearmint. The cooling menthol in these herbs helps relieve body from pain.
* Heat and then sniff some essential oils that are known to possess healing properties. These oils include olive oil, jasmine, juniper, lavender, rosemary, and thyme.
* Although not essentially a treatment, eating a balanced diet helps in maintaining the body’s vitality, making it resistant to pain.
The benefits of yoga are 3 fold : -

1. Flexibility: – This is obvious isn’t it. But this has to be talked about again… I know a little redundant. Flexibility will really benefit your body and weight training.

Let’s just put it this way. When I wake up in the morning and start my yoga routine, I bend over for the first time to touch my toes and the stiffness is incredible. I cannot wait for the morning when I bend down and with the ease of rubber band just flop right down.

The greatest thing about flexibility and yoga is it is by far the greatest range of motion increaser out there. Whatever you may read, muscle down get longer… then just get back to moving the way they were meant to move. We are all dysfunctional and yoga will cure this!

2. Breathing: – I would easily consider this to be one of the most under appreciated techniques in fitness. Breathing can make the difference between getting that one extra rep and saving your head from blood pressure headaches.

Yoga is really cool in that sense because it teaches you’re to concentrate and control your breathing. It will actually a lot harder to do at first. Concentrating on breathing out and breathing in on direction is hard… especially when you are tired and start to break faster.

3. Mental Power: – The ability to concentrate and keep your mind focused is huge. Focus will improve your performance not only in yoga but in weight training. Yoga is so great because if forces you to focus.

I can’t even imagine how I would let me mind wander during the routine. I am so present trying to make the different positions effective that I am always there. That is a good habit to form.

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How to Kill Pain of Injuries Quickly

January 27th, 2010 admin

Injuries are probably the most common health problem. From a simple cut or bruise to severe and life threatening concussion, all injuries have the potential of resolving completely by the knowledgeable use of the homeopathic medicine Arnica.

Knowledgeable use means that you not only need to know the right medicine, but also the potency (strength) and frequency of dose.

Home prescribers of homeopathic medicine can do a huge amount of good with the low potencies available to them. But it doesn’t mean, that when, say, Arnica stops working, that it is no longer required. A higher (or lower) potency may be needed. Or more (or less) frequent doses may be needed.

Only someone professionally trained will know the answers to these puzzles.

But as a general rule of thumb:

  • the more recent the injury, the fewer the doses
  • the more distant the injury the lower the potency
  • the more distant the injury, the more frequent the doses
  • the more serious the injury, the higher the potency
  • the more serious the injury, the more frequent the doses

Repeating a dose should occur when the effect of the last dose wears off. This is normally experienced by a return of the old pain/symptom or a plateauing of the improvement.

Dosing more frequently will generally not show up as an improvement, making novice home prescribers believe it no longer works.

Although minor injuries can be easily and completely resolved by homeopathic home prescribers, the more serious ones are best left to a professional homeopath. This doesn’t mean you can’t start off the treatment by using Arnica immediately, as this will always have a positive effect.

I once fell off my roof, while doing some essential repairs before a forecast windy night. Although it was only a fall of about three metres, I landed on concrete.

I don’t know what I did to myself, and I wasn’t about to find out by waiting. Although in shock, I crawled into the house, found my bottle of Arnica, always kept in a handy location, and dosed myself.

Frequently.

Initially I was feeling nauseous and, what I can only describe as odd. And I wasn’t about to move.

But after about half an hour, I was ready to move about, albeit slowly. A couple of hours later and I was back on the roof, to make it secure for the night.

At no time did I have any pain (even though I couldn’t stand initially, this wasn’t due to pain – to be honest, I don’t know why I couldn’t) or any bruising.

And I have no fear about doing minor roof repairs.

If you use no other homeopathic medicine, buy yourself a few bottle of this fabulous medicine for any unforeseen injuries you, your family or your animals may sustain. You may never know how much good you do, or what disasters you averted.

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Terramed Alliance News Pain From Breast Cancer Treatment Can Linger For Years, Study Finds

January 23rd, 2010 admin


Terramed Alliance News Nearly half of all breast cancer patients experienced chronic pain two to three years after treatment and more than half felt discomfort, according to a study by Danish researchers published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New York Times reports. The study found that women younger than age 40, those who underwent radiation treatment and those who had surgery to remove lymph nodes in the armpit are most likely to experience lingering pain.

In an accompanying editorial, Loretta Loftus, a senior member of the breast cancer program at the Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, wrote, “This should alert clinicians who are caring for these patients to pay more attention to those who are in the high risk groups for pain” (Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 11/10).

Researchers examined a 2009 survey of 3,253 Danish women who had breast cancer surgery in 2005 and 2006, Reuters reports. Forty-seven percent of the patients reported pain. Within that group, 13% described the pain as severe, 39% described it as moderate and 48% said it was light. Twenty percent of the women surveyed said they had contacted a physician within the last three months regarding their pain (Brown, Reuters, 11/10). Women of all ages who had mastectomies were more likely to have severe pain than light pain. Pain most frequently occurred in the breast that was operated upon, in the chest area where tissue was removed, in the upper arm where lymph nodes were removed or along one side of the body, according to U.S. News & World Report’s “On Women.”

“This study isn’t saying to change treatment recommendations based on whether or not a certain treatment is likely to be associated with pain,” Loftus said, adding, “But it’s telling oncologists that they need to be more alert to the incidence of pain,” she said (Kotz, “On Women,” U.S. News & World Report, 11/10). The study’s author, Henrik Kehlet of the University of Copenhagen, said more research is needed to determine why some women experience lingering pain and others do not (Szabo, USA Today, 11/11).

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