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Self-Care – Mid Back Pain Often with Stiff Low Back

Here, you will find relief through self-care for mid-back pain that extends upward, forward and creates a stiff the lower back. If you’d like to read more about how it feels or what aggravates this condition, read this other post. Cycling Cycling can easily aggravate the trigger point that creates this mid-back pain. This is

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Iliocostalis – Functional Anatomy

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Self-Care – Radiating Pain Under the Shoulder Blade

Here, you will find strategies for effective relief o the nagging pain under the shoulder blade created by iliocostalis cervicis, If you’d like to read more about how people describe this and the activities that aggravate it, look at this other post. Acute or Chronic If this is acute and sharp, you will have to

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Self Care – Sharp Upper Back Pain Between the Shoulder Blades

Here, you will find strategies for relief through self-care for that sharp pain between your shoulder blades. If you’d like to read more about how people describe this pain pattern or the things you do to create it, look at this other post. Self-care for this type of sharp, upper back pain can be quick

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Forward-Head Posture Overview

These people complain of neck pain, stiffness and headaches that come from their neck. It often creates problems with restricted breathing and pain that radiates into the chest, upper back, and arms. Forward-Head Posture (FHP) is a syndrome. That means it is a collection of symptoms that lead to more specific diagnoses. FHP, defined simply,

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Self Care – Forward-Head Posture

Forward-Head Posture (FHP) is also known as iHunch or iPosture because it is so often created by texting. Keep your hips against the back of the chair while sitting for long periods. The guy on this end of the picture is the worst but it isn’t just that his head is forward. The woman next

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Self Care – Seated Posture

There are many posts where I discuss problems created by poor seated posture, so here’s a post about how to sit to avoid creating problems. This post explores two different approaches to minimizing the pain and discomfort of sitting at a desk. First, actively sitting in a balanced posture, and secondly, passively supporting postural imbalances.

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Self Care – Relief from Coughing

When you stop coughing, continue to practice social distancing. Act responsibly in protecting the health of yourself and others. Practically speaking, you can stimulate the skin in a waythat reduces the frequency and pain of coughing. This is based on a neurological principle discovered by English surgeon John Hilton. Loosely stated, hot, cold, and pain

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Self Care – Scalene Pain of Upper Back, Arm & Hand

Overview Scalene muscles produce a number of patterns that can be experienced separately. These self-care strategies are great for relief from that pain and tingling in your hand along the index finger and thumb. Often, this includes pain in the upper back, along the shoulder blade described in this post. Additionally, it can leave you

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