Home Treatment for Repetitive Stress Injury

At its best, massage can do much more than feel good–it can lead to healing, increasing circulation, lifting your energy, breaking up scar tissue, and making you healthier overall. Before you find a therapist, research the styles they perform and decide which is right for you. Since everyone has different levels of comfort in relation [...]

Recently we wrote to describe and explain how compression at the thoracic outlet can cause pain, stiffness and problems throughout the arms. The problem remains that many doctors don’t know how to diagnose or remedy the problem. You can help your doctors by learning more about your own condition, pay careful attention to your symptoms, [...]

The thoracic outlet is the region connecting your chest and neck to your shoulder, where bundles of nerves and arteries pass through to supply sensation or blood to your arms. If they get compressed for a few minutes at a time, it won’t affect the blood flow or nerve sensation significantly–but if you spend too [...]

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 [...]

A common complaint of patients who visit any health practitioner, from a general care physician to their massage therapist, is that doctors just don’t have enough time for their patients. In order to be successful, many clinicians stuff too many appointments in and then don’t have the time to spend carefully diagnosing problems and answering [...]

I’ve posted previously about alternate types of treatment for relieving the pain and helping to heal from repetitive stress injuries. One treatment I have not thought much about or explored (but have heard good reviews about) is chiropractic work. A friend of mine recently threw out his back and visited his local chiropractor, who had [...]