Category: Pain or Injuries
Why Do I Get Knee Pain after Exercise?
July 9th, 2010, Comments Off
If you find yourself suffering from knee pain after exercise, it could be due to something obvious like below or it could mean something more.
1. Insufficient warm up or cool down during exercise
Before you begin your cardio like running or aerobic exercise, you need to warm up by doing very light aerobic exercises to warm up [...]
Knock knees, bow legs and back pain due to structural and muscle imbalance
June 23rd, 2010, Comments Off
As mentioned in my previous article, massage by traditional Thai healers (not your usual over-the-counter masseur) is effective to overcome structural imbalances that bring about conditions like knock knees, bow legs, knee pain and back pain. Such massage sessions are usually very painful as the healer worked to clear blocked channels.
Still, professional therapists who have [...]
Curing Knock Knees through Clearing Meridian Blockages
June 21st, 2010, 1 Comment
Since there is no conventional cures offered todate for knock knees, I would like to state my recent experience and what traditional Thai healing via massage could offer. This is not the usual kind of massage that you get from a spa or a masseur.
Recently during a trip to Thailand, I had the chance to [...]
Controversies surrounding mind-body-spirit medicine
May 31st, 2010, Comments Off
Lately in this blog, I have been featuring articles connecting the role of our outlook, attitudes, personality and how we deal with emotions on how they affect health ailments that we may have in our bodies. The mind-body-spirit connection in health and healing has many controversies and in this article, I will attempt to address [...]
Story of a lady with arthritis, joint pain and high uric acid
May 21st, 2010, Comments Off
This is not the only case I have of someone with such condition. But Anne’s story (not her real name) can offer an insight on how our personalities can map out certain specific health conditions.
Anne is almost 70 years old now. She had suffered from arthritis, joint pain and high uric acid. If she as much as eat [...]
Knee pain- to go for knee surgery or not?
April 7th, 2010, Comments Off
Someone I know, who is obese had been suffering from knee pain lately. Usually she does not move around much and is quite sedentary.
When she saw the specialist, she was told that her cartilage had dried out because there was no more synovial fluid. The suggested option was knee replacement surgery to be done on [...]
Acu cupping therapy to relieve lower back pain
February 16th, 2010, Comments Off
A friend of mine recently went for Acu cupping treatment, a traditional Chinese treatment whereby certain meridian points and energy gateway of the body are activated. Usually, it is believe that the dampness and wind are trapped in certain part of your body, blocking good chi and energy flow- and also bring about pain, especially [...]
More exercises to relieve stiff shoulders and lower back
February 5th, 2010, 1 Comment
This is continuation from a previous published post on How to Overcome Shoulder & Lower Back Soreness When Travelling .
4. Shoulder stretch- very good to relief tension in the shoulders and back area. I always do this exercise. (click HERE to view the picture from another site)
It gets more effective when done with a resistance/exercise band [...]
