Essential Reading
for All Natural, Drug Free Pain Relief
Why Stretching Your Hamstrings Won’t Fix Your Back
by Lee Albert, NMT
In over 30 years of helping people live pain-free lives, I’ve observed that 60–70% of the low back pain I treat originates with tight, short muscles on the front of the body. These muscles are the quadriceps and the psoas.
How can muscles that don’t hurt cause pain on the other side of the body? The quads and psoas are hip flexors. In simple terms, they help you bend forward. When they’re too short and tight, they pull your pelvis forward. That tilt compresses the low back, and the result is pain. The pain you feel is the symptom. The cause is often the hip flexors.
3 Simple Tools to Support a Good Night’s Rest and Send Your Lower Back Pain to Deep Sleep
by Monica Le Baron
Does lower back pain wake you up at night? Then keep reading this article to get my favorite tools to support a good night’s rest and send your lower back pain to deep sleep.
These tools are not rocket science. They're simple, and if you have heard of them repeatedly, this is your sign to practice them and add them to your evening routine.
Let’s get started!
How to Practice Yoga Without
Wrecking Your Body
by Lee Albert, NMT
A NY Times article (How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body) is warning us about the dangers of yoga. There are a number of good points in the article about inversions and stretching too deeply into postures. The article goes on to describe various injuries many people suffer while practicing yoga.This even includes some quite accomplished yogis. The article concludes that the vast majority of people should give up yoga altogether.
While I agree with much of what is said in the article, I have come to a much different conclusion...
One-Third Of Americans Experience Chronic Pain
by Lee Albert, NMT
A third of all Americans -- more than 116 million people -- live with longlasting, chronic pain, according to a new report from the Institute of Medicine. That is more than all the people who have heart disease, diabetes and cancer, combined.
Chronic pain is defined as pain lasting for 30 to 60 days, and that has an impact on personal and professional life, TIME reported. The costs of chronic pain are up to $635 billion a year, when adding up treatment costs and money lost from decreased productivity, according to the report.
Breathe Correctly to Reduce Pain
by Lee Albert, NMT
In an excellent article (The Five Healing Benefits of Breath), the author reminds us about the importance of breathing fully, slowly and steadily. The article describes some of the benefits of healthy breathing as calming the mind, cleaning toxins and reducing pain in the body.
Most people take breathing for granted. Usually we do not give it much thought. Breathing, however is the most significant activity that we do because it gives us the most important nutrient required for life: oxygen.