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Self Care – Pain in the mid-calf and heel

The sacrotuberous ligament a thick band of connective tissue that ties the low back, sacrum, ilium, ischium and becomes the hamstring tendon. It usually requires some persistence to resolve. Don’t use heat here. It feels good but inflammation sets in a few hours later. making this worse. The first line of defense is ice. This […]

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Self Care – Pain In The Base Of The Head With Earache

Here, you’ll find strategies for getting relief through self-care from pain at the base of the head with an earache. If you’d like to read more about how people describe the pattern and what they do to activate it, look at this other post. Pain in the base of the head and with earache is

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Self Care – Neck-ache Headache, Eye-ache

This post has self-care strategies for relief from neckache, headache, eye-ache. If you’d like to read more about how people describe this pain and the activities that create the problem and aggravate it look at this other post. Avoid this sharp bend at the base of the neck instead of using his eyes to look

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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 – Headache and Tender at Top of Neck when Turning Head

Here, you’ll find how to get relief on your own with stretching, exercises, icing, etc. Look at this other post to learn more about how people describe this condition or aggravate the problem. Avoid sleeping or reading or watching TV, etc., with your head on the arm of the couch. Also, avoid sleeping with a

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Self Care – Pain at the Base of the Head and Under Shoulder Blade

Here, you can find relief through self-care from pain at the base of the head and under the shoulder blade. In this other post, you can read more about how people describe this pattern and the activities that create the problem. Avoid sleeping in awkward positions or, especially, under a draft. Chill aggravates this pain

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Self Care – Neck tension when wearing a heavy coat

Overview Here, you will find self-care strategies for neck tension, pain, and irritation in the upper neck from a heavy coat or backpack. Additionally, this tension and irritation may extend into the shoulder. In this other post, you can find more about this pain pattern, what aggravates it, and how people describe it. An underlying

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Self Care – Headache At Your Temple

Here, you will find relief through self-care for the headache at your temple that often comes with a stiff neck on the same side. This other post describes how people experience and create this trigger point pattern. This headache at the temple is one of the most common trigger points. There are many ways to

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Self Care – Calm Yourself In 3 minutes with Ice-and-Stretch

Polyvagal theory is complex, It proposes that vagus nerve function impacts our ability to stay calm and interact with people in a non-threatening way. It was developed by Steven Porges who has a number of videos about it online. Practically speaking, when I use techniques that focus on improving vagus nerve function people become less

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