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Reclaim Your Health, Energy & Vitality in 2024!
Is your quality of life burdened by body aches, joint pain, weakness and/or restricted movement?
Tens of millions of people across the world struggle with a musculo-skeletal problem that prevents them from doing the things they love, or need to do.
Common problem areas are the low back, neck, hip, knee, shoulder and feet. Pain may not be present 100% of the time, but reduced functional capacity remains.
Certain movements, such as bending at the waist or turning your neck become difficult to do, which discourages exercise and encourages a sedentary lifestyle. A sedentary lifestyle is associated with chronic degenerative diseases like obesity, heart disease and diabetes.
With insufficient physical activity, the condition gradually deteriorates and becomes harder to reverse as the years pass. This is the pathway to partial disability, or encumbered activities of daily living in the later years. As a result, life won’t be as fun as it could.
Given this predictable scenario,
It is extremely important to address any issue that limits your mobility and strength NOW before it’s too late.
And I would like to help you.
I have been a strong advocate of self-care for over 25 years, teaching my methods on my site and YouTube channel Ask Dr. P (formerly The Pain and Injury Doctor Online). My approach to creating a pain-free, flexible, strong and healthy body is grounded in wellness-focused lifestyle modification combined with manual therapy techniques and select, home-use therapeutic devices that I have carefully researched and tested.
The world is changing fast, and self-care/ wellness education via the internet (referred to as telehealth or telemedicine) is an emerging health care tool that is helping millions of people successfully manage a variety of health problems in the comfort of their home. Ask Dr. P can be your resource for musculoskeletal health and well-being. Simply subscribe to our Self Care Tips Newsletter in the blue form below.
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Articles to Educate Yourself on Reclaiming and Maintaining Health
The Bad Health Effects of Frequent, Prolonged Sitting
I've been saying for many years that one of the best things you can do to improve your health is to be more active. And one of the ways to do it that is low tech and doesn't require a heck of a lot of thought is making a conscious effort to stand more than you...
Spinal Stenosis – What it Is, and What to Do
Spinal stenosis is a condition where the spinal canal narrows, compressing nerve tissue inside. It is often inaccurately described as a form of arthritis. Spinal stenosis has the potential to cause permanent nerve damage, so it is very important to know if you are at high risk for developing it so that you can take more specific and aggressive measures to stop it from progressing.
An Often Neglected Approach to Self-Treat Disc Bulging
Disc bulges, or herniations, come in a variety of presentations. They usually are limited to the lower lumbar spine (L3/4 to L5/S1) and the neck (C4/5-C7/T1). In taking the medical history of patients suffering from disc bulges, there is usually a history of a...
How Insufficient Sleep Can Increase Your Pain
If you are suffering from pain, insufficient sleep can delay your recovery and even make your pain worse. Eight-nine hours of sleep is considered ideal for most adults. Anything less than this, especially if your body is already compromised with obesity, diabetes,...
Muscle Atrophy from Kenalog (Cortisone) Injection
If you are considering getting a cortisone shot for pain or allergies, I highly recommend that you do your due diligence in researching the safety of cortisone injections before you do it. What exactly is cortisone? It is a type of corticosteroid. Corticosteroids...
Severe Neck Muscle Spasm of Unknown Cause
Last June, I experienced a severe case of cervical (neck) muscle spasm. It had a prodrome characterized by soreness around the left side of my left neck; the type that typically is associated with “sleeping in a funny position” or using a bad pillow. That’s what I attributed it to, so I was not concerned, thinking it would be gone in a day or two.
Boy was I wrong. The following day, the soreness quickly turned into unusually severe pain and muscle spasm. Unusual in the sense that I could not think of anything physical I did to trigger it. I certainly did not get injured in the days leading up to the prodrome. The neck spasm and pain took a life of its own.
The Dangers of Using Opioid Drugs to Treat Pain
Opioids are strong drugs that are typically prescribed for cases of acute pain such as that from major trauma or post-surgery, and also for patients experiencing severe, chronic, debilitating pain; primarily from terminal cancer and rheumatoid arthritis. Opioids...
Do this simple thing to add years to your life
No, it's not quit smoking, exercising more, or eating a healthy diet I'm talking about; although these things can add years to your life. You know what it is? Answer: stop sitting too much! We are living in a society that encourages sitting, thanks to computers. ...
New Study Shows Qigong Helps Relieve Fibromyalgia
Qigong, sometimes spelled Chi gung, is a form of exercise that originated in China some 4,000 years ago. Literally translated to "life energy cultivation" it involves aligning breath, movement, and awareness for exercise, healing, and meditation for the purpose of...
Functional Exercises to Strengthen the Core and Back
Functional exercises, in my opinion, are the "best" kind of exercises in that you get the most "overall benefit" per unit time doing them. This is especially true for those who don't have that much time to dedicate to exercise. Basically, functional exercises...
Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness Treatment
Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness, or DOMS is a condition where your muscles feel pain a day or two after hard or unfamiliar exercise. DOMS is thought to more likely be worse with exercises that emphasize eccentric muscle contraction, where the muscle...
Pain With No Apparent Cause
It's strange, but you would think that for someone experiencing neck, back, shoulder or any other type of musculoskeletal pain in his body, he would know exactly when it started, and how. But surprisingly, this is not the case for a majority of patients I have seen...
Your body constantly seeks a state of optimal function, and pain is not a part of that state. This is an innate feature of all living organisms. If pain lasts or keeps returning, something is inhibiting your body from experiencing a pain-free state and in many cases, you have control over that something.
~ Dr. Perez
