What is Chronic Pain? Chronic pain is usually caused by an initial injury, such as a back sprain or pulled muscle. It's believed that chronic pain develops after nerves become damaged. The nerve damage makes pain more intense and long lasting. In these cases, treating the underlying injury may not resolve the chronic pain. Chronic pain is pain that lasts for over three months. The pain can be there all the time, or it may come and go. It can happen anywhere in your body. Chronic pain … [Read more...]
The MELT Method® – Pain Workshop, Feb 12 (7-9pm)
January 25, 2014 by
Feel Better Now MELT Hand and Foot Treatment Erase pain and tension in your hands, feet, neck, and low back brought on by everyday stress, overuse, and age. This simple self-treatment can make your whole body feel better and provide relief from neck and low back pain, arthritis, bunions, plantar fasciitis, and carpal tunnel syndrome. Join MELT Instructor Fahmida Bhabha for an introduction to the MELT Hand & Foot Treatment. Learn how the connective tissue in your hands and … [Read more...]
Pain Intervention: The Therapeutic Power of Touch
August 23, 2012 by
Treating cancer is often an invasive process. Chemotherapy treatments, radiation and surgery are generally painful, and can leave someone who is already feeling weak even more fatigued and exposed to greater amounts of pain. Whether you are battling lung cancer, leukemia or mesothelioma you will likely benefit from incorporating pain management techniques to your cancer treatment program. Massage therapy is one type of treatment that uses the power of touch to enhance wellness and healing while … [Read more...]
Suffering from Sciatic Pain??? Here’s your answer!
July 22, 2012 by
Do you want to keep managing your sciatic pain... or End It, once and for all?! If so, keep reading and forward to someone you know who may need this also. Most doctors have no idea how to cure sciatic pain, so instead they try to "MANAGE" it. Not Good They tell you to rest and to take pain killers or muscle relaxers. A temporary solution. But pills just mask the pain and when you stop taking them the pain comes roaring back. Definitely not Good Then you have to go back to the … [Read more...]
