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It’s A New Day!
IT IS A NEW DAY! The sun is up! It brings warmth and light and the promise of joy. It is one of the few things you can count on these days that is a good thing. See Annie’s Song at the end of this article. But if you are achy and tired maybe you’d rather just...
Hands Up
YOU HAVE ONLY to note the appliances offered for sale in the catalogs that arrive daily to guess at how many Americans are plagued with hand and wrist problems of one kind or another. Our hands and fingers seem to be very vulnerable to arthritis, tingling,...
TLC for Your TFL
THE TENSOR FASCIA LATAE is an important but often overlooked muscle. Although it is located in the lateral front of the upper leg it is considered to be a part of the gluteal set. To my mind one if its most important and interesting functions is to put tension on the...
If You Have Joint Pain…
PAIN IS A WARNING. Get your hand off the stove. Go to the ER and get that bloody gash sewed up. This is acute pain, you can see there is something wrong and it tells you you’d better do something pronto. But what about joint pain in hips and knees that creeps...
Adductor Care
THE ADDUCTOR MAGNUS, BREVIS, and LONGUS, as well as the GRACILIS and PECTINEUS on the inside of the upper leg, are responsible for pulling the leg toward the midline and assisting in flexion and medial rotation of hip. Like any other muscle group the adductors...
Just Add Water and Music
THE HARVARD MEDICAL School suggests that water is an ideal place to exercise. I would say that is true — but unless you add music it can be the same old boring stuff. Advantages of Water It is easier on your joints since the natural buoyancy lessens the impact....
Do You Have Trouble Peeing?
The medical term for that is URINARY RETENTION. It is the inability to pass urine in your bladder, and it can be acute or chronic. In the acute stage there is the sudden inability to urinate. In the chronic stage it is a gradual or slow inability to empty the...
What Do You Expect at Your Age?
I WAS ONE OF the lucky ones. Born in 1938, I had the run of the yard, the adjoining woods, no TV, and no processed food. The vegetable garden was our market, the library our source for books, the drugstore for an occasional ice-cream, and for transportation: our legs!...
What Could Cause My Neck Pain?
THAT IS THE recent title of an article by Howard E LeWine, MD who is Chief Medical Editor, Harvard Health Publishing. The article begins this way: Q. After I fell, I developed right neck pain radiating to the right shoulder. It’s been six months, and the pain...
Clicking, Roaring, Hissing, Buzzing, Ringing = Tinnitus
IF YOU ALREADY have TINNITUS then you probably know the definition, causes, what to do, and the current treatments available. But read on because if you’ve tried everything and haven’t been helped, then give Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy® a try. DEFINITION...