Home Treatment for Repetitive Stress Injury

At its best, massage can do much more than feel good–it can lead to healing, increasing circulation, lifting your energy, breaking up scar tissue, and making you healthier overall.
Before you find a therapist, research the styles they perform and decide which is right for you.  Since everyone has different levels of comfort in relation to [...]

Active Release Technique, or A.R.T. as it’s known, is a technique that involves strategic pressure on trigger points combined with guided stretches. Practitioners are highly trained and the techniques are useful for treating repetitive stress injuries, breaking up old scar tissue, and treating sports injuries too.
My experience with A.R.T. started at a climbing gym [...]

In an earlier post, I talked about some of the alternative treatments that Western medicine is starting to recognize.  I also pointed to some of the misunderstandings that doctors still have regarding those treatments.  As a patient, it’s good to research and understand all your options.
Below, I’m providing an overview of some of the most [...]

If someone says “alternative medicine” to you, what image does it conjur to mind?
Alternative medicine is considered by many people to be a branch separate from Western medicine. But more and more “alternative” treatments are being incorporated into modern health care. Your doctor might even prescribe massage, acupuncture, reiki or other treatments to [...]