Pain is defined in medicine as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage. Pain is the sensation that warns us that damage to our bodies is occurring.  ... Read more

The Original Post is Located Here: Pain

Muscle is one of the four tissue types. The other three types are: epithelium, connective tissue and nervous tissue. The primary purpose of muscle tissue is to contract. Muscle contraction is used to move parts of the body, as well as to move substances within the body.  ... Read more

The Original Post is Located Here: Muscle

Chronic pain is medically defined as pain that has lasted 6 months or longer. This constant or intermittent pain has often outlived its purpose, as it does not help the body to prevent injury.  ... Read more

The Original Post is Located Here: Chronic Pain

If you have ever suffered from a 'migraine' you will know how all consuming the pain can be. Not only does your head hurt , but your eyes hurt, your face hurts and even bright lights or loud noises cause pain.  ... Read more

The Original Post is Located Here: The Migraine type Headache

Being a Personal Fitness Professional, I hear from many people who are suffering from various aches and pains, and unfortunately are misinformed. One thing I am constantly hearing from people is "I've got a bad back," or "just my old tennis elbow acting up".  ... Read more

The Original Post is Located Here: Aches, Pains, and Injuries 

It was five minutes to six and I was packing up to go home to dinner when a good client rang to say that a friend of hers was at her home and in excruciating pain and could I help.  ... Read more

The Original Post is Located Here: EFT and Widespread Pain

Ninety percent of the time, low back pain comes from one or more of only six muscles.  Using the 'spray and stretch' technique, muscle pain in the low back can be completely eliminated.  The pain relief can be almost instant.  ... Read more

The Original Post is Located Here: Low Back Pain

In 2005 I decided to take a look at Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) after seeing a write-up In Dr Mercola's newsletter.

On visiting the official EFT website, I read about all the miraculous results practitioners from around the world were supposedly achieving with everything from minor trauma right up to serious diseases.  ... Read more

The Original Post is Located Here: Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)

When the ground substance contains an overabundance of collagen fibers that have cross-bound and coiled in on themselves,  the  fascia is less able to adapt and the fascial network becomes inelastic and does not expand readily.  ... Read more

The Original Post is Located Here: Abnormal Fascia

Fascia is the semiflexible fibrous membrane of connective tissue that binds together the various components of the body. Pockets in the fascia contain the various organs of the body.

The myofascia covers, supports and separates the skeletal muscles. Each muscle fiber is wrapped with myofascia, bundles of those fibers are wrapped with myofascia,  and  the whole muscle is also wrapped in myofascia.  Myofascial tissue is dynamic: under strain it increases in density and relative rigidity, giving the muscles more support

In healthy non-fibrotic fascia, collagen fibers are cross-linked to a degree that creates stability.  ... Read more

The Original Post is Located Here: Fascia and Myofascia