Even if the brain itself is insensitive to pain, certain regions of the skull such as the scalp, face, mouth and throat have nerve fibers that are sensitive to pain and which can hurt. Headache – or cephalgia – generally means any type of pain that would appear in these sensitive regions of the skull.
Anxiety And Stress Relief – Facing Life’s Giants!
Life and all its inordinate problems can often appear as a giant bearing down on you. It’s enormous footsteps shake and shudder the very foundations of your life bringing stress and anxiety. Relief from these problems can seem like a lifetime away. When bills pile up, family demands overwhelm, tasks in hand get out of hand and calamity and tragedy fill in the news headlines.
How To Reduce Stress And Ease Worries In Just 3 Minutes
Stress is everywhere, we know its unhealthy, and we know the conditions it can lead to. Many of us feel we really should do something about it, but the trouble with stress is when were in its grip its difficult to do much about anything.
Meditation, relaxation and visualisation are the standard recommendations for reducing stress, and they are all beneficial and useful to us in many ways, however, they are not so easy to put into use when stress strikes with its disru…
9 Secrets For Stress-Free Living
In this featured article we’ll teach you how to emotionally de-clutter your life and magnetically pull the things you want closer to you.
A Primer on Bradley vs. Lamaze Childbirth Methods
For many, childbirth is the defining moment of our lives. However, along with the excitement and joy of bringing a new life into this world comes the challenges of the birth. There are two major competing schools in dealing with the discomfort, stress and pain associated with childbirth: Bradley and Lamaze.
Delicious Ways to Reduce Cholesterol With Out Drugs
Those of us with unfavorable cholesterol scores are constantly bombarded with the importance of controlling LDL-HDL levels. Unfortunately, many of the drugs prescribed for cholesterol reduction can have serious side effects such as fatigue, muscle cramps, brain fog, etc. Trying a natural adjustment to your diet may be a better and less risky way to tame the cholesterol beast.
Trigger Finger – Is It Really All That Common?
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) is the most widely recognized form of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI), but Trigger Finger is catching up fast, becoming all too common among society and affecting the youth and elderly in ever-increasing numbers. If the rising numbers keep on track, Trigger Finger may be recognized along with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome as having achieved epidemic proportions.
Trigger Finger On The Rise
Prior to the 1990’s, Trigger Finger seemed to affect a small …
Migraine Headaches: Are Pain-Killing Drugs Worth the Risk?
Patients with migraine headaches seek over-the-counter pain pills by the multimillions. But are these migraine headache sufferers actually helping themselves or are they taking dangerous risks that they are unaware of?
Pain Free: Some Arthritis Relief Tips
Arthritis is the name given to a group of related diseases, which include osteoarthritis (degenerative arthritis), rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, lupus and fibromyalgia. In its various forms, arthritis affects the young and old, both sexes and all races. Although there are over 100 kinds of arthritis, they share one thing: they all rob otherwise healthy people of their quality of life by making even the simplest of movem…
Facts vs Myths About Back Pain
Lets begin by learning some facts in order to separate truth from myth with regards to back pain. First of all, under one percent of acute lower back pain is the result of a serious infection or condition like cancer or a spinal injury. For those under 50, the rate is even lower. Back pain is the number one disability for those under age 45. And it runs second, after the common cold, as the top reason for visiting a healthcare provider in the United States.
There is not…
Food Allergies and Fatalities
An insightful article exploring some of the most common food allergies.
Are Pain Killers Causing Your Headaches?
Do you take analgesics (pain pills) for your chronic headaches? If you do you are not alone, but you may be surprised to learn that the pain-killers you’re taking may actually be promoting your chronic tension or migraine headaches.