Pardon the pun, but let’s get to the bottom of top of foot pain! “Top of the foot pain” as it is generally referred to by people with this ailment is generally pain felt in the top surface of the foot. Usually, it’s a sharp pain felt around the second metatarsal, which is found in line with the second toe, or around the third or fourth metatarsal.

A common problem with runners and other heavy sports players, the top of foot pain is commonly caused by tendinitis of a metatarsal tendon. While some people try to work through the pain, this rarely helps, and in most cases makes it worse.

The primary cause of this condition is excessive “pronation,” or the turning inward of

the foot. Some pronation is natural and needed as it helps the foot adapt to uneven ground conditions. What happens with over pronation is the arch collapses and flattens while soft tissue stretches. Because of this, joints become too loose and flexible when they should be stable.

Arch supports can help eliminate excessive pronation by supporting your arches and bring your feet into better alignment. Arch supports also help to keep your feet in their most ideal position they were meant to be in, and distribute your body weight more evenly across your feet.

For best results, you should have arch supports personally fitted to your feet. In about 30 minutes you could walk out pain free, as a lot of arch support customers report. The key is the personal fitting. Using ill fitting arch supports can actually aggravate your problems and do further damage. Arch supports are different from padded insoles and should not be picked up at the grocery store along with tonight’s dinner. Spend the short time it takes to ensure you get the right fit for you.

Tip - Bring the shoes you normally wear so the right arch supports can be matched not just to your feet, but to your shoes and lifestyle as well. You’ll be surprised just how discreet they can be. Arch supports can fit into athletic shoes, dress shoes, high heels and even sandals.

There is no need to live with “top of foot pain” anymore when arch supports can give you almost instant relief. Trying to tough it out and work through the pain is not a good idea and may actually cause more severe damage to your feet.

You don’t have to live with foot, leg and back pain! Get back to enjoying those activities you used to love doing. With over 300 different styles and sizes of Good Feet Arch Supports, you could be wearing your favorite shoes again, pain free.

Deano Handt’s foot was severed and reattached at the age of 17 from a motorcycle accident. He suffered from terrible Sciatic pain for 20 years from the accident, but started wearing Good Feet Arch Supports and his pain was gone. He now runs daily and has run 14 marathons.

A former Good Feet franchisee, Deano is now a Pedorthist and is the Director of Retail Sales for the Good Feet Stores, overseeing 150 locations throughout the United States, Canada and Korea.

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A tissue expander is a device that is implanted into the body that adds volume to the area in which it is implanted causing the surrounding tissues to grow and expand to accommodate this extra volume. Tissue expanders are used by medical experts to augment the existing tissue so that they will have enough tissue to close wounds, cover areas or reconstruct areas of the body. They are much better solution than simply stretching the existing skin and tissue as the newly augmented or expanded tissue will have the same properties such as thickness, coloration and elasticity as the original tissue. Stretching the skin and tissue may not be an option as many tissues may not be elastic enough to be stretched and the skin will be thinner and may discolor.

Tissue expanders are saline filled balloons that are placed under the skin and or muscle and are normally slowly inflated to promote the growth or expansion of the necessary tissues. In some situations such as cosmetic breast augmentation it is inserted into the body already fully inflated.

For patients who receive a tissue expander that is slowly inflated the pain especially at first is extremely minimal. Patients often report a feeling of fullness and heaviness and minimal soreness just as if they had localized swelling in the area and pain relief is not necessary. As the tissue expanders are inflated these feelings increase and several patients do report having pain sometimes reasonably severe in nature.

The amount of pain experienced differs not only between patients but also depends upon the location and the actual tissue being augmented. Tissue expanders that are placed under muscles to augment or expand the amount of muscle tissue as well as the amount of skin tissue generally have increased levels of pain reported than those expanders that are just inserted under the skin to augment skin tissue.

Most patients respond to oral pain medication and pain only lasts for a few days as their bodies adapt to the extra bulk of the expander, however the pain will return with every filling or enlarging of the expander.

Many female patients who are receiving tissue expansion under the chest muscles for reconstructive surgery after having a breast removed, report pain and many are given anti inflammatory drugs either alone or in addition to oral pain killers which work effectively in reducing the amounts of pain they experience.

Dr. Jim Greene would like to invite you to learn more information that will help guide you in your decision making process.

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Flexing your wrists while doing repetitive hand and finger movements, such as typing or working a cash register, places you at higher risk for developing carpal tunnel syndrome. This syndrome includes numbness, tingling, burning, or pain in the middle and index fingers and thumb (and sometimes all the fingers). Eventually, your hand grip may weaken. Carpal tunnel syndrome is increasingly common among office workers. You can reduce your risk by modifying your workstation and changing the way you use your hands.

Hand and finger movements repeated over and over for a long time, especially when the wrists are lower than the fingers, cause inflammation around the median nerve, which runs through a narrow tunnel of bone and ligament in the middle of the wrist. Since bones and ligaments have no give, this puts pressure on the nerve and causes the symptoms.

If you have any of the above-mentioned symptoms, see your doctor for diagnosis and treatment. Early intervention can help prevent and minimize symptoms. Stop the problem before it becomes severe.

If you work at a keyboard, and especially if it causes you discomfort, try to also make these following changes at work: Your keyboard should be at elbow level or a little lower. If the keyboard base slopes gently away from you, your hands will be a little lower than your wrists. Research from Cornell University shows this position puts less stress on nerves and soft tissue. Make sure your wrists are not flexed with the fingers higher than the wrists. Bending the wrist this way narrows the tunnel through which the median nerve passes, so it can actually contribute to carpel tunnel syndrome or even worsen the problem.

Rest your hands periodically throughout the day.

If you can, rotate work activities so you don’t spend hours at a time at the keyboard.

Janice Novak, M.S., author of Posture, Get It Straight! book and companion DVD have been featured on the Oprah Winfrey show. Ms. Novak demonstrated to Oprah’s audience how her One Minute To Better Posture technique could have them standing straighter instantly! Janice Novak is considered this country’s premier posture expert. She is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker and wellness consultant. Her unique posture program has helped thousands of people look and feel better. To learn more or to order a copy of Posture, Get It Straight! book &/or companion exercise DVD, go to http://www.ImproveYourPosture.com To subscribe to Janice’s free Health Newsletter, send a blank email to: Janice@ImproveYourPosture.com

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Does electrical stimulation (or TENS) relieve pain?

The answer has, and always will be, yes. But how does it work? Well, that’s a bit more involved, so lets explain in a bit more detail…

The pain relieving mechanism of TENS and electrical stimulation in general, is multi-factorial. All sorts of issues factor in - including the type of stimulus, its frequency and duration. The acceptance of the technology by the user plays no small part either, meaning there’s a strong psychological component to any pain experienced; so how one interprets pain and the choice of analgesia for that pain can be very important.

Having said all that, the three most important physiological factors are an endorphin release, pain ‘gating’ and the ‘unlearning’ of pain.

The Endorphin Effect

Endorphins are hormones that occur naturally in the body that reduce pain and promote a feeling of wellbeing. Endorphins are released in response to injury and physical stress.

Morphine, and related medications, have a similar chemical structure to endorphins - which explains their strong pain-killing effects. In fact, ‘endorphin’ is actually made up of two words: Endogenous, meaning native to the body, and Morphine meaning opiate like substance.

Runners (and other athletes), experience a natural ‘high’ after about half an hour of sustained physical exertion. This is attributed to the steady release of endorphins during exercise - which reach a threshold point within an hour, below which their effect is unlikely to be noticed.

TENS is a well accepted medium for inducing a release of endorphins - and much like exercise, it may take 30 minutes or more to take a noticeable effect. However, once the pain relief is evident, the effect may last for several hours before endorphin levels in the body need to be increased again.

The body will release endorphins if the rate of electrical stimulation is low - less than 7 pulses per second (14Hz).

On a BioStim® TENS unit, this is the ‘L’ setting on the rate control. On an EziStim® TENS unit, you can use either the ‘PainEze’ mode, ‘Mild’ or ‘Sustained’ modes.

The Gating Effect (aka Pain Gate Control Theory)

The absolute simplest way to describe this pain relieving effect is to use the example of a person who stubs their toe, then rubs it to ease the pain (after they’ve finished cursing up a storm, of course). When the toe is stubbed, the pain messages travel in the nerves to the brain - where the messages are interpreted and tell the person they actually ‘feel‘ the pain.

However, when the toe is subsequently rubbed vigorously, these new, ‘non-painful’ messages also travel to the brain where they compete for attention. The brain processes these new non-painful message in favor of the pain messages and subsequently we feel less pain. In other words, the rubbing sensation has ‘closed the gate’, so that painful messages cannot get through. And most of us would know from personal experience that the faster we rub our stubbed toe, the better the results. When we stop rubbing the toe, often the pain begins to return.

When set to a pulse rate or frequency above 35Hz, TENS works in just the same way. It generates electrical impulses which block the pain. The faster the pulses, the better the pain blocking effect.

On a BioStim® TENS unit, this is the ‘H’ setting on the rate control. On an EziStim® TENS unit, you can use either the ‘PainEze’ mode, ‘Strong’ or ‘Gating’ modes.

Here’s where it gets really good. By modulating the pulse rate from high to low (or fast to slow), you can actually achieve both pain relief effects of an endorphin release and pain gating at the same time.

Unlearning Pain

After a course of treatment with TENS, the body will often reprogram itself so that pain is no longer perceived. It has been taught to ‘unlearn’ the pain. If, during a course of treatment, the pain messages are switched off or broken often enough (through the above effects), this new state of reduced pain can slowly become the norm. This may produce prolonged relief lasting weeks, months or more. This is a complex mechanism, and is poorly understood - although it does appear to have something to do with the pain messages as they travel in the spinal column to the brain. It seems the body ‘learns’ new neural pathways to exclude pain.

Jim Lamers is an 84 year old physiotherapist and the manufacturer of the only Australian made TENS devices, since the 1950’s. He’s worked with numerous sporting clubs, organized the visiting physiotherapists at the 1956 Olympic Games and has performed over 1 Million treatments. For the past four years, Jim has been working on a study of 2447 Sustained Mobile TENS users with fantastic results.

More information on the study can found at http://www.painstudy.com.au/

His blog can be found at http://www.ezistim.com/blog/

More information on his company’s TENS products can be found at http://www.ezistim.com/

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Millions of people suffer from headaches. This often causes missed work days. less productive days, and less enjoyable days. Migraine is a specific intracranial vascular headache. Many use the term mistakenly to describe other types of headaches. There are many other causes of headache and many of these can be caused by nerve dysfunction.

The occipital nerve is a large nerve in the neck. It can be damaged by such things as whiplash injuries and improper patient positioning during oral surgery. Occipital neuralgia causes pain in the back of the head but this can be referred to other areas. This is because the ganglion interconnects with the trigeminal ganglion in the brain stem. Throbbing is often associated with this type of headache because of proximity to the occipital artery.

The auriculotemporal nerve is located near the ear and the top of the jaw on both sides. Common headaches with problems to this nerve are temple headaches. This nerve is commonly damaged in TMJ surgery. it is usually pounding because it is near the temporal artery.

Another nerve that can cause problem is compression of the ethmoid nerve in the sinuses. An ear nose and throat doctor can diagnosis this problem by seeing if the patient has tenderness when using the instrument commonly used to explore the sinuses.

Another type of neuralgia that can be found involves the supraorbital nerve and can be caused by a head hitting a windshield or a punch to the front of the head. Treatment and diagnosis involves injection of local anesthetic with steroid. The headache can sometimes take years before it starts to present problems.

The infraorbital nerve can also cause problems and is often misdiagnosed as maxillary sinusitis.

Nerve problems causing headaches are different than migraines and need to be treated as such. Diagnosis is made by injection of local anesthetic into the nerve that seems to be the problem. Treatment is directed at reversing the underlying pathology. Entrapments are treated with injectable anti inflammatory medications. Always remember you can’t treat what you can’t diagnosis. Patients as well as doctors need to be proactive in finding a potential source for chronic headaches.

Shawn Thomas writes about his new daily persistent headache brought on by his wisdom teeth removal. To find out more you can visit http://www.teethremoval.com.

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Are you looking for natural ways to help your carpal tunnel pain?

Did you know that your body operates on natural laws? If we violate these laws, we get pain. If we cooperate with the natural laws, we get out of pain.

Here are seven simple tips that will help relieve pain in your hands,wrists and arms.

1. Strengthen the back side of your upper arms. The front side of our arms are often held in bent, shortened positions for long periods. We need to open up the short front arm muscles and strengthen the back arm muscles to create balance.

2. Get and keep a strong back. A strong back side, from thighs to neck, will keep you in good posture. Having a strong back will hold your shoulders back and prevent a whole lot of pain in your future.

3. Do lots of comfortable stretches. Do them in the opposite direction of the way you usually work or play. Get your arms up over your head or behind you. It’s easy to do this in bed–less fighting of gravity.

4. A good therapeutic massage can also be a great help for carpal tunnel pain. A knowledgeable massage therapist will know where to work to benefit you most. (You might be surprised at where that is!) And, he or she might be able to make suggestions for things you can do to help yourself.

5. Get strong and in balance. Take a tai chi, yoga or stretching class (make sure it includes stretching chest and arm muscles.)

6. Improve your nutrition and your water intake. Bodies need lots of vitamins and minerals to function well, so “eat for color” (veggies and fruit) and/or take a really good vitamin supplement. Muscles work best when they are well hydrated, so remember to drink plenty of water.

7. Take frequent breaks if you have to work in fixed positions for long periods of time. Taking lots of little breaks is often better than taking just one long break. Move your eyes, shoulders, arms and hands in different positions than the ones you usually use.

And now I’d like to invite you to discover more ways to relieve your pain naturally at http://www.SimplePainRelief.com Let Kathryn Merrow, The Pain Relief Coach, be your guide to a pain-free life.

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Do you have neck pain? Do you think it’s just because you are getting older?

Well, most of what we call old age is just losing the fight to gravity.

We start to lose the fight when we first begin to get out of neutral posture. Then gravity starts pulling us down. It always pulls us forward, rather than backward, because that is the path of least resistance.

Our soft abdomens have no bones to prevent forward collapse.

We can prevent this forward collapse. Yes, it takes some work, but the payoff is terrific!

Because of our lifestyles and work styles, most of us spend ninety percent of our days with our heads and arms in front of us. Because our heads are heavy, we may become stuck in what is called a forward head posture. This causes pain in the neck, back of head and back. Eventually it may even cause pain in the arms, hands, legs and feet. And, since our heads are heavy, gravity starts to pull us into a forward collapsed posture by pulling on our head.

If we get to the collapsed forward posture, a number of things happen. None of them are good.

-We get more pain than we had previously.
-Our abdomen is compressed, so we become constipated.
-There is more pressure on our blood vessels.
-Our lungs are compressed, so we can’t breathe as well.
-Our heart is squashed, so it cannot function as well.

Now let’s change to a happier picture.

Think of a toddler.

My daughter was at the pediatrician’s office. A new mom in the waiting room said she couldn’t wait for her baby to walk. My daughter told her that her baby would never walk! They don’t walk, she explained. They run, climb, crawl, jump, swing, hand and tumble. But they don’t walk.

And then we go to school.

We learn to sit for hours at a time. Often we sit in a chair which doesn’t fit us. When our movement becomes restricted, we begin to get out of neutral, and gravity starts to get its’ hold on us.

When our heads move forward, the poor muscles in the back of the head, neck and shoulders get overstretched. They don’t like that at all. Those muscles compensate by developing knots and pain to call our attention to the problem. Frequently, we don’t understand what they are saying.

They are screaming at us: Stop stretching me! I don’t like it!

At the same time, the muscles in the front of our bodies shorten. They don’t complain, they just get short.

Since we don’t extend or stretch them fully now, the front muscles tighten up. Unless someone presses on them, those tight muscles usually don’t hurt. But they do keep us from moving properly. They keep our head stuck in a forward position. These short front muscles cause more head, back and neck pain for us.

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Did you know that your muscles cause most of the pain in your carpal tunnel area?

Due to our daily living and working patterns, the muscles in the front of our bodies tend to shorten. They don’t complain. They just get short. The muscles in the back of our neck and shoulders get overstretched. And they love to complain!

The overstretched muscles cause pain in your back, of course, and they can cause pain in your arms, wrists and hands, too. The shortened muscles in the front of your body can also cause symptoms in the vicinity of your carpal tunnel.

Here’s how it works.

We each have several hundred muscles in our bodies.

How many of your muscles do you suppose you use each day? Most of us use only sixty or so. The same sixty muscles get used, all day long. The others don’t get used like they used to, when we were little kids.

So, we get out of balance.

The muscles in the front of our bodies get short. They contract. They don’t complain. They just get short. And cause problems elsewhere!

The short front muscles pull on the back muscles. The muscles in the back of our body, our neck and shoulders, get overstretched. And they do complain! Oh, boy, do they complain!

Ever get that knot in your upper back, between your spine and shoulder blade? Most likely on the side of your dominant hand? Um hm, you know the spot. Well, now you know what causes it. When that area gets overstretched, it complains.

When a muscle complains, it is a symptom.

You might go to a massage therapist who rubs and rubs but the symptom won’t go away. It can’t go away until the short muscles in the front of the body which are causing the symptom are released.

Getting back into balance can be done. When you were little, you were in perfect balance.

You can get there again.

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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) gets lots of attention, and most of us are familiar with the idea of what it means.

Maybe you had a diagnosis by a doctor or perhaps you are suspicious that you have carpal tunnel syndrome. Regardless of whether you truly do or not, the fact is that you do have pain, numbness or tingling sensations in your arms, wrists and/or hands.

The carpal tunnel, by the way, is the internal tunnel, or passageway, inside the wrist through which nerves and blood vessels pass. If these get compressed, uncomfortable sensations result.

Compression can result from movements which aggravate the wrist or arm, or from swelling of the tissues. Swelling and compression are most often the result of incorrect and repetitive usage of the hands, arm and body. This may be referred to as Repetitive Stress Injury (RSI) or Repetitive Movement Disorder. We move incorrectly when we move differently than the way we were built to move.

Whether you actually have CTS, RSI, or something else, the cure is basically the same.

Because the cause is basically the same.

Crabby muscles.

Here are three categories of people whose carpal tunnel syndrome may not be caused solely by muscles which are complaining:

-Women who are pregnant. Their pain goes away after delivery. -Diabetics with carpal tunnel pain. Those individuals need to be treated by their physician, but may also benefit from this information. -And a very few individuals who actually have a much smaller carpal tunnel than average. They may be more prone to CTS, and may be the only true CTS sufferers.

If you don’t have any of the above, but you do have pain, read on–this is for you.

When our posture “fails,” or we become collapsed forward, we compress nerves in our neck and shoulder. Those nerves cause symptoms in our hands, arms and wrists. Our muscles are no longer holding us upright. We need to get back to our original good posture, and we can.

When we get this “forward-head posture”, we also usually develop trigger points. Trigger points can cause pain in–surprise!–our hands, arms and wrists, as well as other areas of our bodies.

Here’s a simple carpal tunnel pain relief tip for computer users:

If you use a computer mouse, pull a tray table or something similar next to the side of your body. Put your computer mouse on it. This lets you hold your elbow close to your waist, which keeps your arm from getting strained from stretching to reach your mouse. Use a table height for your keyboard and mouse which allows your elbow to be bent at about 90 degrees and keep your wrists straight. Let your wrists “float” above your keyboard.

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Grandma had rheumatism and Grandpa had back pain. Now you have fibromyalgia. Did you ever stop to think you may have inherited your pain? Science has now explained why some of us are predisposed to developing painful conditions while others are not. This is a fascinating look into our genetic underpinnings that may help explain the epidemic of pain that we as a society are suffering. We are living in a phenomenal era. Until recently, our knowledge of human genetics was limited and composed of genetic identification of a relative handful of disease states, such as sickle cell anemia, Down’s syndrome and other devastating diseases.

But in 1989, a new world began to open up. The National Human Genome Research Institute began as the National Center for Human Genome Research (NCHGR). It was established in 1989 to carry out the role of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the International Human Genome Project (HGP). The project was developed in collaboration with the United States Department of Energy (DOE) and given the mission in 1990 to map the human genome, our basic DNA structure as humans. In 1997 the United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) renamed NCHGR the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), officially elevating it to the status of a research institute - one of 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

By April 2003, the entire human genome sequence was completely identified. Scientists around the world now had access to a database that greatly facilitated and accelerated the pace of biomedical research. This human genome project may truly represent the greatest public health project ever undertaken. So much is now known about the human genome that the field of genetics is rapidly emerging as the foundation of much of modern medicine. You might ask, “What role does genetics play in my pain? Isn’t my genetic make-up a permanent feature? Do my genes ever change?” These are valid questions. Let’s take a look at each of them.

The role of genetics in pain is complex. The human genome project has given us more information today than we had in the past. This has allowed us to understand why some of us are predisposed to developing excessive or chronic pain. We now also know that inflammation plays at least some role in many of the conditions which produce pain. We can, therefore, search for certain genetic predispositions towards inflammation and thus, chronic or excessive pain.

In 1866, a monk named Gregor Mendel discovered inherited “factors” that seemed to play a role in the selection of certain traits in common peas. This discovery led to many other investigations. Ultimately, James Watson and Francis Crick made the well-known discovery that resulted in a Nobel Prize for their delineation of the double helix as the primal genetic material of life. This amazing discovery helped us understand many of the confounding inherited diseases such as sickle cell anemia, Down’s syndrome, cystic fibrosis and even some cancers such as breast cancer. These diseases are a result of gross abnormalities of the chromosomes, large collections of DNA found in paired sequences within each of our individual cells.

The human genome project allowed the scientific world to peer deeper into each paired chromosome and analyze each strand of DNA, building block by building block. These building blocks are composed of four purine bases - adenine, guanine, cytosine and thymine. They are arranged in an amazing variety of sequences to give the human body its complex series of codes. These codes produce enzymes, proteins, hormones and much more, creating the master plan for your own unique body.

It is deep in the genetic code where scientists have discovered minor small variations that occur on a fairly common basis for some of us, determining how our bodies function in a variety of “less than normal” ways.

These minor variations are called gene SNPs (pronounced snips) or single nucleotide polymorphisms. These SNPs are important to understand for many reasons. Because SNPs produce a wide variation of physiological responses in the body, they are intimately involved in the reason we see wide variations in how individual bodies respond to trauma, injury and common causes of illnesses. Even more importantly, these gene SNPs impact the ways your body absorbs and utilizes nutrition, vitamins, minerals and even synthetic compounds such as pharmaceutical drugs.

So which gene SNPs may be involved in the development of chronic or excessive pain? It appears there may be many. Since inflammation is one component of chronic or excessive pain, then any genetic control of inflammation will impact your tendency to develop chronic or excessive pain. Indeed, there are several genetic variants of common genes known to predispose an individual towards the production of excessive inflammation. In addition, there are known genes that control your body’s ability to neutralize oxidative stress, another source of inflammation. And finally, there are genes that control your body’s ability to detoxify, render toxins harmless and eliminate them. Variants of these particular genes can limit your body’s ability to remove toxins, increasing the tendancy of these toxins to cause damage to DNA, proteins and tissues of your body and produce inflammation in the process. Notice I said “tendency”.

An amazing concept has stood traditional science on its head. The expression of some genes, in fact, can be turned on and off by many factors, including the foods you eat, the supplements you take and the lifestyle you lead. This is a radical discovery. For years, it was believed that our genetic make-up resulted in specific and consistent types of responses in the body. In fact, you may believe you have a genetic destiny based on the genes you have inherited. We now know this isn’t the complete picture.

While some genetic conditions may in fact be our physiological destiny, especially when large variations in chromosomes occur such as Down’s syndrome, far more genetic conditions can be modulated by the lifestyle we choose to lead. This is great news! This means that if you are willing to learn what conditions your genetic constitution predisposes you to develop, you can then create a lifestyle to avoid, modulate or moderate its effect. In particular, with chronic pain, knowing your genetic tendencies around inflammation, antioxidant systems of your body and your detoxification abilities can help explain your particular response to pain as well as give you the nutritional blueprint for improving your pain.

Dr. Pamela Avery, the Natural MD, is a board-certified physician and specialist of over 30 years in the management of pain through natural methods. She offers free articles, weekly newsletters and online pain management lifestyle coaching. She has developed a lifestyle system for chronic pain entitled “Live Pain Free! 6 Steps to a Pain Free Life.” It can be accessed at http://www.drpamavery.com Her free special report, “The Truth about Supplements”, as well as her E-zine, “Natural Solutions”, can be accessed at http://www.the-natural-md.com

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