Home Treatment for Repetitive Stress Injury

Muscle aches can be caused by stress injury, or lack of sleep — or even potassium deficiency. People are more at risk for this kind of deficiency if they take certain medications, such as diuretics and cortisones, or high blood pressure drugs, says Lisa Robertson of the blog “Fighting Fibromyalgia.” People with fibromyalgia or other [...]

When you work full time, especially if it means chronic pain in your arms and hands, every part of life can start to feel overwhelming — the last thing you want to do is wade through a bunch of old blog entries to find the easy ways to make things better. So here is a [...]

Scar tissue forms around a muscle, tendon or ligament after it’s torn, in order to bind it together and prevent future injuries. Scar tissue often criss-crosses across the normal, healthy tissue, so although it helps the healing process, it can also reduce the flexibility of the area. Most people have experienced some kind of injury, [...]

I once read an account of the peace negotiations following the Second World War-secretaries stayed up all night, painstakingly typing and retyping official documents. Since this was before the computer era, they used typewriters, and had to retype any page where edits or errors were made. On reading the historical accounts, my wrists twinged and [...]

Which of these injuries is different? Ankle sprains, broken legs, and carpal tunnel syndrome all cause swelling and pain and need to be immobilized at times. But the chronic pain syndromes like Carpal Tunnel behave very differently than acute injuries like an ankle sprain or broken bone. A recent write-up in the Posture Blog describes [...]

Everytime we read a label or look online, there’s someone threatening us about the next Big Disease — cell phones cause cancer, computers cause carpal tunnel, crossing the street can get you run over by a car, video games can make you psychopathic– or do they? Of course we can’t live our lives in fear [...]

The old wisdom of stretching says: Hold a stretch 20-30 seconds, to relax your muscles and be able to work out harder afterward. But these static stretches aren’t really effective and may actually weaken muscles, according to a new study from the University of Nevada: The old presumption that holding a stretch for 20 to [...]

You don’t have to join a gym, lift weights or start running to be good to your body. The best way to stay healthy is find hobbies that get you moving, help you meet new people, and that are just downright FUN. Although this blog most often covers medical treatments, therapies and disorders, the best [...]

I’ll never forget the day my Workers’ Comp doctor gave me a packet of Vioxx pain killer to try, after the drug had been pulled from the market. I told him, “I want to heal my arms, not just numb the pain.” Although he admitted that I could hurt myself more by numbing the pain [...]

I got my kneel chair at a thrift store for 10 bucks, and it’s one of my favorite places to sit. Kneeling chairs adjust your position to be more natural on the spine than regular chairs and provide a unique ergonomic relief for the back and hips. Rather than put all your weight on your [...]