The Back Muscles Explained: How to Relieve Pain

Back pain is one of the most common health issues, especially as we get older. It can range from mild discomfort to debilitating pain. In fact, 8% of all American adults experience chronic back pain! This can lead to increased healthcare experiences and a lower quality of life. Your back muscles support your spine, allowing… Continue reading The Back Muscles Explained: How to Relieve Pain

Hand Pain: Trigger Finger and Trigger Thumb Explained

Millions of people in the United States have chronic pain in their hand, wrist, or thumb. Arthritis is actually the most common cause of disability in the country! If you are living with hand pain, you know how difficult basic daily tasks can get. Trigger finger and trigger thumb are common conditions that can cause… Continue reading Hand Pain: Trigger Finger and Trigger Thumb Explained

7 Strategies for Enhancing Health and Wellness with Chronic Conditions

Integrating Lessons Learned for Enhancing Health Over the past seven weeks, we’ve explored various ways to enhance well-being, offering insights on living a healthier and more fulfilling life. From the power of health perception to managing personal triggers, these themes combine to form a comprehensive approach to personal wellness. Here’s a summary of our key… Continue reading 7 Strategies for Enhancing Health and Wellness with Chronic Conditions

Mastering Personal Triggers: A Guide to Stress Management

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Identifying and Navigating Your Personal Triggers for Stress and Pain Management Have you ever suddenly felt overwhelmed or stressed without really knowing why? You might be experiencing a response to a trigger—a specific situation or event that sets off an emotional or physical reaction. Identifying, understanding and managing your personal triggers is an important step… Continue reading Mastering Personal Triggers: A Guide to Stress Management

Treating Nerve Pain 

Nerve pain or neuropathy is not your typical pain issue. For people who have muscle or joint pain, treatment might include ice, heat, over the counter pain meds, and anti-inflammatories. For those living with nerve pain, the treatment is different because the source of pain is different. Nerve pain is caused by damaged peripheral nerves… Continue reading Treating Nerve Pain 

Releasing Limiting Beliefs and Embracing Your Potential

Release Your Potential We all have immense potential and are capable of achieving incredible things. Limiting beliefs can hold us back and narrow our view. These self-imposed barriers often prevent us from moving forward. Today, we’ll offer some practical tools and resources to help you release those limiting beliefs and foster a mindset that supports… Continue reading Releasing Limiting Beliefs and Embracing Your Potential

Overcoming Self-Limiting Beliefs: The Power of ‘YET’ in Personal Growth

Positive Mindset in Personal Growth and Pain Management Beliefs and habits are created because they have served some purpose in your life at one point in time. They guided you to where you are now, and you kept using them because they worked. They help drive your choices each day in a way that doesn’t… Continue reading Overcoming Self-Limiting Beliefs: The Power of ‘YET’ in Personal Growth

Peripheral neuropathy: Symptoms and Treatment

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Peripheral neuropathy refers to damage to the peripheral nervous system, the network sending signals between the central nervous system and the other parts of the body. These nerves send sensory information to the brain, for example, the sensation of heat or cold. Peripheral nerves also carry signals from the brain and spinal cord to the… Continue reading Peripheral neuropathy: Symptoms and Treatment

Chronic Pain Management: Meeting Fundamental Needs for Better Quality of Life

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What Are Fundamental Needs for Better Quality of Life? When you think about your fundamental needs, what comes to mind? At first, you might consider basic necessities like food, water, and shelter. However, fundamental needs are dynamic, encompass so much more, and will continue to evolve over time. Fundamental needs are the things that everyone… Continue reading Chronic Pain Management: Meeting Fundamental Needs for Better Quality of Life

The Power of Perception: How Your Mindset Shapes Your Health

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes Health Perception We’ve all heard the saying, “Perception is everything.” But what if it were also a predictor of how healthy we are and how long we live? It can be important to reflect on our overall perception of health so that we can identify areas of improvement and establish… Continue reading The Power of Perception: How Your Mindset Shapes Your Health