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Pumpkin For….Pain?

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     Pumpkin season is almost in full swing! Pumpkin spice lattes and pumpkin recipes are all over the internet. Oreo’s latest flavor even contains Fall’s favorite ingredient. But pumpkin can be used for more than signaling the start of a new season. Like all vegetables, pumpkin has benefits that can keep you healthy year round.

Pumpkin is rich in dietary fiber, antioxidants, minerals, and vitamins[1]. It’s low in all the things that we try to avoid. Such as saturated fats, cholesterol, and calories. Even the seeds can be beneficial! Pumpkin seeds have a protective effect against diabetes. They help to stabilize blood sugar and protecting the insulin-producing cells in the body against damage[2].

Suffer from arthritis? Pumpkin can help you with that as well! Pumpkin is abundant in Vitamin C. This vitamin is needed to help the body rebuild cartilage in the joints. Consuming enough Vitamin C can improve joint health and prevent inflammatory arthritis[3].  Less inflammation means less pain!

Next time you see a pumpkin recipe, you may want to consider saving it. Cooking with pumpkin is a great way to get all the benefits it has to offer. Pumpkin can be enjoyed all the time, but with their popularity in the Fall, it is easy to enjoy them even more.

Some see pumpkin as a seasonal treat, but don’t be afraid to use it all year. This way you can receive all the benefits it has to offer.

 

[1] https://rtpr.com/blog/pumpkin-good-younot-just-pie

[2] http://www.nowtolove.co.nz/health/body/arthritis-eat-some-pumpkin-14508

[3] https://rtpr.com/tips/top-10-vitamin-c-rich-foods

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Chronic Prostatitis Pain

It is really painful and you need to take care of your body to minimize the chance of being affected by this physical discomfiture. You should remember that it is not a disease but it is a sort type of symptom which should be detected at an early stage to rescue your body from the utter deterioration.

Traditional Chinese Medicine diagnosis for the acupuncture treatment identifies the specific disharmony by analysing the symptoms such as the presence of pain, cloudy or bloody urination, urinary inhibition, as well as the reduction or increase in urine flow.

There are various types of treatment available to treat the condition. The patient is advised to go for both physical and psychological therapies. While physical therapy includes medications, psychological therapy is used to manage anxieties and this type of therapy involves paradoxical relaxation, progressive relaxation, adaptation, etc.

A cesarean birth requires cutting through layers of the abdominal muscles and the peritoneum-a thin membrane that lines the abdominal cavity and the internal organs. When it is cut from the uterus, the body responds to the inflammation of the incision by producing scar tissue.

A natural ovarian cyst treatment system, will teach you how to handle stress, remove toxins from your life and insure your nutrition, so that in just a couple months you could be feeling better than ever. Your cysts will be gone, never to return. As will your pain. Tell me something you’d rather have than absence from that pain!

Actually you can start on those natural relief methods right now. At least get some relief for your pain. When standing, or even when sitting for periods of time, elevate one foot onto a stool. It changes your whole body position and can bring some relief from pelvic pain.

The pain in the pelvis area my wane and intensify in short episodes and the degree of pain can range from a mild condition to severe and debilitating pain.

There is often more than one source of this kind of pain. It also may be necessary for your doctor to consider other parts of your body when diagnosing causes of pain. It may be caused by problems in the digestive or urinary systems, as well as the reproductive organs.

There are simple, natural tips as well as medications and medical treatments that knowledgeable doctors, physical therapists, and other healthcare providers are increasingly integrating into their practices with great success.

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Chronic Back Pain Treatment

Chronic Pain is defined as pain that occurs frequently or persists longer than six months. It is estimated that chronic back pain affects nearly one out of ten Americans. Chronic pain has been known to disappear over time, but it can also last a lifetime as there is presently no known cures for it.

Once you have chronic back pain for any reason you shortly come to realize that you’ll more than likely be living with it the rest of your life. There is exercises you will be able to do to help strengthen parts of your back and fight  pain but the fact is when the weather changes, or there has been a drop in the barometrical pressure, your back pain will flair up and remind you that you’re still injured and all the physical exercise in the world isn’t going to help.

Persistent backaches are often a lifelong problem. You can do exercises to strengthen your back and reduce the effects somewhat, but when the weather changes or the barometer drops, there will be a flare up. It’s as if your back is reminding you of your injury and that there is nothing you can do to eliminate the pain entirely.

Painkillers form a part of most chronic back pain treatment programs. Other options include exercise, manual therapy such as chiropractic or massage therapy, and acupuncture. Spinal fusion surgery is generally only recommended if all other treatment options have been tried and nothing else helps.

The best way to get relief from your pain and gain practical knowledge could be to chat with friends suffering from same problems since a long time. Most of such patients have tried various methods and can tell you some of the effective ones. But you should ensure that both of you suffer from the same ailment otherwise that treatment can even harm you more than you can imagine.

There are different kinds of treatments that doctors use. One of the most common is the adjustment and manipulation treatments It is a process that uses pressure on certain parts of the spine or joint that is causing you pain. This can help to relieve the stress placed in joints, and help them to function properly.

Back pain, or any pain, is your body telling you that you need to rest. Pain indicates that all is not well, and your body needs time to repair. A healthy body will be able to repair many pains with adequate rest and no other treatment.

The back muscles in the human body are really strong and are naturally meant to take a lot of strain. But there is a limit to everything. Reaching beyond that limit can cause the back muscles to cramp up painfully and get inflamed, causing the chronic back pain. You can only strain your body so much and no more. I

In several cases, rest can cure back pain, e.g. if it is acquired while jogging or playing. But in the case of trucking, the truck drivers sit in the same position and do the same thing, every day of their working life. Truckers also usually are on the road and don’t get to their homes often enough to seek treatment.

Another treatment method includes eating healthy. It is important to make sure you get all of your vitamins and minerals. Try to eat healthy food as much as you can. You see, simple things, such as losing weight and eating healthy may be all you need to do to get rid of that chronic back pain.

So there you have, ways that can help you alleviate back pain; you may take Advil or other pain relievers, exercise and do some stretching, choose a relaxing spa treatment or simply use a heat therapy product such as Back Wrap which my grandma would definitely vote for.

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Understanding Chronic Pain

Chronic pain is the major cause of disabilities and the most disabling of all aliments. Chronic pain happens over a long time and therefore affords an opportunity for learned behaviour.

Rehabilitation may not produce a cure but it stands to greatly improve one’s quality of life. There is a need to identify the elements in a client’s environment that reinforce pain behavior. Chronic pain people sometimes manipulate and control out of a compulsion to remain as pain patients. As practitioners, we cannot take away a client’s pain but we can help them to release their pain when that is what he or she decides to do.

The practitioner’s purpose is to challenge the client’s beliefs; to shake them if they are flimsy; and to make the client support or change them until their beliefs are shaken down to those in which they can show interest and enthusiasm.

It is always a good idea to ask oneself whether the client’s pain is a warning of disease, a bid for attention or sympathy, a signal of unhappiness or depression, or merely a characteristic way of reacting to other people. With discussion, conflicts don’t disappear, but with insight the client can choose to change their behaviour and/or their reactions.

Clients often resist change and cling to their pain. They have a fear of change and lack something constructive to replace the pain. Bear in mind that not all chronic pain sufferers are professional pain clients.

When all is said and done, pain is when there is a sensation of hurting. A simple statement for sure, but nonetheless it is the bottom line. For pain is not a simple cause and effect process. It is very individual and very varied. One’s psychic structure at any point in time can raise or lower the pain threshold. Philosophy, religion, sex and culture can affect the perception of pain. What one person feels as pain, another might not notice. Pain is the accepted name that is put on a sensation that is felt. For some, pain is not a primary sensation but rather a complex state of mind, holding emotionally charged feelings that would better be described as anguish, grief, distress, tension or anxiety. Pain is a signal that something is not right or a warning that requires a reaction.

Clearly pain cannot always be separated from emotion and emotion plays a major role in the perception of pain in some cases, increasing the pain and others blocking the pain.

Pain can be controlled in some situations by increasing large fiber output such as initiated by massage or tactile stimulation, which Polarity Therapy does for example. Pain can also be lessened by such means of specific training as behavioral conditioning and/or using the power of suggestion and distraction techniques. There is truth in the sayings “As we think – we are” and “Our body is a reflection of our thoughts.”

The multifaceted, multi disciplined approach works best with chronic pain. There are four basic steps in the successful management of pain:

1) have check-up by your doctor to determine cause and whether or not medical treatment is indicated.

2) doing the proper work up and getting a complete history

3) determining the trigger for the pain

4) using the best strategy, in the right amount, at the right time for the particular client’s aliment

People can build their world around pain and a behaviour pattern that victimizes family, friends and even medical personnel can develop. Their environment is what molds the direction their behaviour takes. When a sense of reward or satisfaction follows a given behaviour in their environment, then that behaviour is repeated. Unknowingly, the pain behaviour finds reinforcement within the environment. When the client engages in some behaviour identified by others to be indicative of pain, then this behaviour becomes known as pain behaviour. (e.g. favoring a sore leg)

When the chronically ill begin rehabilitation, major gaps in their well-behaviour repertoire are found. They have been out of touch with healthy actions for so long that they don’t know how to be well. It has to be relearned, reprogrammed with healthy patterns and actions re-established. This is what brings about well being.

The reason that chronic pain is so hard to alleviate is that the memory of pain tends to lower pain thresholds. This can result in a more intense response.

Drugs do not kill pain, they change people’s perception of it. They work in the brain itself interfering with the communication between the cortex (thinking cap) and the deeper thalamus. Actually, our psyche operates in pain perception perhaps even changing the way parts of our brain and nervous system respond to one another and send signals. Our bodies produce endorphins and these are our natural painkillers. It has been said that when pressure is applied to the head these endorphins are produced. There are theories that joggers enjoy jogging because it stimulates the brain to release endorphins. Endorphins are powerful antidotes to depression and lift one’s spirits. In the case of acupuncture and acupressure, endorphin release again occurs. These principles are also used in other disciplines such as Polarity Therapy.

Regularity in exercise is important to stimulate endorphin secretion. When starting to make regular exercise a part of one’s natural habit pattern it helps to remember that it takes about six weeks to develop a habit. Start gradually and work up to 1/2 – 3/4 hr. for three to five times per week. The best exercise is walking, swimming or jogging.

Dr. Stone the founder of Polarity Therapy said, “All pain is but an obstruction to energy flow.” Energy flow gets blocked when there is unexpressed emotion. Only when life’s currents are obstructed and become stagnant does fermentation of waste in the tissues cause decay and germs. Electromagnetic waves, their charge and cellular polarity are effected by depressed and repressed mental – emotional states. Even the cerebrospinal fluid becomes blocked when there is toxic waste build up. Through bodywork like Polarity and Cranial Sacral Therapy these blocks are removed as the energy currents are once again restored to free flowing. Remembering that force negates, and the supreme art is in the mastering of the art of “doing by – not doing” and to guide or facilitate the client’s return to the desired state of wellness and well -being.

Let your personal experience be the next step in your move forward to attaining your goals and dreams in life. For private sessions and for information on courses, call Sher Smith at Realizing Your Potential (905) 751-1076.

Sher Smith is a Registered Nurse, Registered Polarity Practitioner, Registered Cranial Sacral Therapist and Educational Kinesiology Instructor who has been involved in the holistic health field since 1979. As a metaphysical graduate, the ancient rituals, esoteric teachings and healing practices of the ages continue to be ongoing areas of study and interest.

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Yoga For Chronic Pain

Chronic Pain sufferers deal with pain most of the time with no relief. With awareness, the gentle movements of Yoga can relieve some of that pain. Studies have shown that a Yoga practice can reduce the amount of pain in people who suffer from fibromyalgia, arthritis, chronic back pain and many other painful ailments.

Chronic pain carries anxiety and frustration with it because we constrict our breathing when we feel pain. Constricting the breath can lead to anxiety. Anxiety can make the pain worse. Constricting the muscles when they hurt, also increases pain. The frustration of it all can make us not want to do anything. Sedentary lifestyles can be detrimental to the whole body. Your muscles weaken, your immunity levels drop and your state of mind can move from frustrated to depressed. It can be a vicious cycle or a downward spiral.

Even with the popularity of Yoga today, some of you may think of a bunch of old men wearing sheets and sitting in pretzel poses. The actuality is that if you can simply calm your breathing, you can reduce the anxiety associated with chronic pain (and you can wear any comfortable clothing that you choose – no sheets required). Once you can relax a little, you can generate some healing properties into painful areas and the focused energy and blood flow can often reduce some of the pain.

Deep, slow breathing into painful areas can reduce the constriction in the muscles and send a fresh supply of oxygen to body parts that are in need of healing. The breath is a powerful tool that everyone possesses but many people don’t take advantage of.

Can Yoga cure you? We won’t go that far, but wouldn’t it be worth it to try to alleviate some of the pain? Let’s look a little more into some specific analogies.

Fibromyalgia is a condition that gives you widespread chronic pain in your muscles and even into your ligaments and tendons. It is described as a deep ache with trigger point areas that are more painful when touched. Basically ~ everything hurts and you can experience extreme fatigue.

Yoga can provide less pain, better sleep, more strength, endurance and stamina and increased positivity in everyday life. It is a practice of easy postures that can be adjusted according to your level of activity and pain on any given day. You can practice Yoga to reduce fatigue, to strengthen muscles or to simply relax your body.

Arthritis sufferers also have chronic pain. The sharp intense pain associated with arthritis can make you want to reject all movement. But people who live with this pain know that movement is essential. Unless your arthritis is severe, exercise is recommended for people with arthritis due to decreased strength and endurance. You may not want to practice first thing in the morning when pain is sometimes at its worst, but later in the day, once your joints have warmed up a bit, a gentle Yoga practice could be the best form of exercise for you.

When you do practice Yoga, adjust your poses so that you feel your stretch. Don’t’ go so far into any pose that you feel sharp pain in the joints. Some days you might be able to stretch certain muscles and other days the same stretch might be painful. You need to really listen to your body and adjust your poses and the intensity of your stretches accordingly.

There are studies that recently revealed that Yoga can help with chronic back pain. Practicing restorative types of Yoga, such as Iyengar Yoga, can help with posture, range of motion, and reducing recovery time from injury.

Chronic back pain patients need to focus more on alignment, using props such as blankets and Yoga blocks to achieve some of the poses. The muscle strengthening and lengthening should be practiced slowly while focusing on the breath-work. The same benefits previously discussed will provide relief with stress, anxiety, frustration and depression.

Chronic pain is a maddening issue to deal with. Always being in pain, sometimes worse than others, can carry negativity and depression with it. The breathing practice that is incorporated into Yoga poses sends fresh oxygenated blood into areas to warm the muscles. Gently moving through breath connected poses is stress relieving, immunity building and mobility promoting.

Even slow strength improvements can make a big difference with chronic pain. If Yoga can be a comfortable form of exercise why not try it? Awareness of your body and adjustments are important while practicing Yoga, but that awareness can carry into your everyday life. Being aware of breath constriction and adjusting as necessary can ease some discomfort ~ even while you are not practicing.

As always, please check with your doctor before beginning any exercise program. If he or she thinks Yoga could provide some relief to you, have an open mind and breathe into your Yoga practice.

Namaste,

Peace to you.

By Kathi Duquette

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Chronic Pain Relief For Chronic Pain

What causes chronic pain? It is believed that a number of diseases and disorders are responsible for it. Is there a way to find the source of the pain? Yes there is but it may take an experience and good doctor to be able to confirm that the pain isn’t your imagination. The good news is chronic pain can be cured or if it cannot be cured, you are still be able to manage the pain. In this article we are going to explain what is chronic pain, its common causes, and a whole list of chronic pain relief which can be adopted.

Definition of Chronic pain

It is a progressive discomfort which can be of different degree;mild to severe. The pain can go on from several months to a lifetime in duration. On the other hand, acute pain can last for a specific amount of time and has a straightforward cause. The inception of chronic pain’s can sometimes be identified. Oftentimes, pain progresses over time and the cause may be isolated. The ironic thing that the chronic pain sufferers have to endure other than the pain itself is the difficulty in finding someone who believes in their pain and at the same time can provide the answers about chronic pain relief.

The Causes of Chronic Pain

Chronic pain can be caused by autoimmune diseases like lupus or rheumatoid arthritis, thyroid conditions like Grave’s disease, genetic disorders like multiple sclerosis, back or neck trauma, and less defined disorders like fibromyalgia.

Does Chronic Pain Exist?

There are many doctors who are sceptical with the disorders caused by fibromyalgia. This is because there are no identifiable effects by x-ray or blood work. Many arthritis sufferers on the other hand will be able to show negative x-ray and blood test results for many years even before signs of bone and joint damage can be seen. Chronic pain does exist though the effects cannot always be seen with the naked eye and the causes are not always instantaneous Therefore chronic pain sufferers is indeed needed the chronic pain relief. Techniques for Chronic Pain Relief

Chronic pain sufferers sometimes have to cope with ongoing pain and it is more than about taking medication. Many of them have never recovered. For these patients the focus of treatment is learning how to live with the pain.

Pain management specialists help patients use a multifaceted approach to treat pain. These treatment programs are specific to each patient because every human being has a different pain tolerance and reacts differently to pain. However, many patients worry if they may cause more problems than solve them because of medicating the pain with habit-forming opiates.

You are not abusing medications because you are taking prescribed medication as ordered. However be cautious you can be addicted and this can add to the current problems.

Pain management specialists also use both over-the-counter and prescribed medications along with lifestyle management techniques to help patients manage pain. Stress management techniques, exercise, physical therapy, diet, and counseling are all treatment methods which can be added to medication to provide effective chronic pain relief. If you would like to know more about all the other pain relief and minor joint pain relief, please click here Chronic Pain Relief

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Yoga and Lower Back Pain

In a recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center researchers found that yoga classes specifically designed for chronic lower back pain (my italics!) helped patients feel better. In light of this those with non-specific Lower Back Pain might also be interested in this podcast which features Stuart McGill (regarded as the God of Lower Back Pain) discussing yoga and lower back pain

Yoga and Lower Back Pain

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