Wellness Blog

Unveiling Your Best Self: Daily Habits for Optimal Well-Being

Try Self-Massage to Ease Sore Muscles

Incorporating self-massage and acupressure into your daily routine is a great way to combat muscle soreness and stiffness. Self-massage techniques can effectively alleviate discomfort in muscles and joints, while acupressure, rooted in traditional Chinese medicine, applies pressure to specific body points to release tension.

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Aging With Grace
To just about everyone who reaches a self defined ripe age, growing older is not nearly as much fun as, say, growing up or blossoming or hitting your stride at 35 or 40. Growing old brings with it new aches and pains, disappointments and continuing discoveries of crummy little surprises. 
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What To Do When Your Back Goes Out
You’re  smart.  You fulfill your obligations; you mind your own business and generally do the right thing in whatever enterprise engages you at the moment. You take care of yourself, exercise in moderation, eat right, and enjoy good health and a relatively high fitness level and all of the benefits that usually flow from your admirable lifestyle.
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Self Care in Trigger Point Therapy

Pain, as most of us know by our own life experience, comes in a variety of forms, at any age and at any time of the day or night, often when we least expect it or when it is most inconvenient.

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How to Prevent Back Pain

The first humans to walk fully upright were probably the first humans to suffer from backaches. It remains, even in this age of high-tech wonders, a bane of human existence. Affecting as many as eight of every 10 American adults at one time or another, back pain is one of our most intrusive, costly and annoying maladies.

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Ergonomics: Efficiency and Safety in Motion
Overuse injuries, although they often seem quite straight forward, can be, in fact, quite complicated in that they are often caused by a combination of factors that vary widely from person to person.
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How To Deal With Sports Related Muscle Injuries
No matter our age or skill level, participation in athletic competition puts stress on the body that can lead to pain. Most of us have been taught that this pain should respond to ice and a few days of anti-inflammatory medication.
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Racing and Coping

To many, perhaps most, of the under-achieving observers out there, it may seem that competitive athletes are an unfortunate lot. Here are some ideas on managing and coping to think about as you slog along on your own journey.

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How to Get Rid of – And Prevent – a Tension Headache Without Taking Pills

This article explains how to do some simple stretches that stop a developing tension headache dead in its tracks, and how to get rid of a tension headache (without drugs) in the work place. It’s an excerpt from the author’s “How to Get Permanent Relief From Chronic Tension Headaches” program.

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The Positive Benefits of Exercise
As a chiropractor who has treated thousands of patients since 1986, I have observed a noticeable difference in the overall health and well being of individuals who make exercise and physical activity a high priority in their daily lifestyles. 
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Moving From Winter to Summer

By now the winter doldrums should have blossomed into the full flower of spring fever, and dreams of an extended period of outdoor activity should be lighting up the thoughts of veteran athlete and tender neophyte alike.

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Blood Clots and the Endurance Athlete
I am Steve Lehman, a 58-year-old, endurance athlete and I developed blood clots.  As a World and National Champion and World Hour Record holding bicycle racer, I believed I was “bomb-proof”.  I’m not. In fact, I’m lucky to be alive. 
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You and Your Muscles: Tending To Your Power Plant

Nearly all training athletes experience some post workout muscle soreness. Non athletes and newcomers to physical exercise may wonder if it is even worth the agony.

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Original Backnobber® Donated to The Smithsonian Institution

On March 9 1985, the Pottstown Mercury of Pottstown Pennsylvania reported that the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC had requested a sample of The Original Backnobber®, a product of The Pressure Positive Company.

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Taking it to The Limit

Within each of us is an explorer, and within every explorer are visions of new frontiers. In a very real sense, exploring the limits of our own, individual capacity and capabilities gives every one of us a great, ever-new territory to discover. 

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Ergonomics Efficiency and Safety in Motion
Overuse injuries, although they often seem quite straight forward, can be, in fact, quite complicated in that they are often caused by a combination of factors that vary widely from person to person. 
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