We are all familiar with collagen, however, there are many other things you can do to preserve your joint health, maintain activity and mobility and maintain a healthy skeletal system. Our skeletal system has a big job and some of its major functions include giving our body its shape, supporting it and allowing us to…
Overview of the Structural / Skeletal System The skeletal system structure is complex. It is made up of bones, cartilage, bone marrow, joints, tendons, ligaments, muscles, and teeth. The adult human skeletal system consists of approximately 206 bones, whereas babies have around 350 bones. These 350 bones fuse as we grow, resulting in fewer and…
Pain Relief without the Risk of Addiction America is in the midst of a health crisis due to the misuse of opioids, a class of pain-relieving medications that include morphine, heroine, codeine, hydrocodone, oxycodone, fentanyl and many others. In 2018 alone about 47.000 people died from opioid overdose, with about one-third of these deaths coming…
Many people wrestle with difficult health problems such as chronic pain, neurological disorders like seizures, psychological problems like mood disorder, neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, autoimmune disorders, cancer and glaucoma. Now, there is new-found hope for recovery from these serious conditions thanks to the discovery of the endocannabinoid system (ECS). The ECS was discovered…
As an individual living with RSD / CRPS for over 25 years I couldn’t wait to read Dr. Katinka van der Merwe’s, DC, QNCP book Putting Out the Fire New Hope for RSD / CRPS. I first discovered Dr. Katinka van der Merwe after reading a blog post on the rsds.org website entitled “Putting Out…
I finally had the opportunity to read the book Living with RSDS, Your Guide to Coping with Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome written by Linda Lang and Peter Moskovitz, MD . This book was written in 2003, however I feel it is still very relevant. It has lots of great ideas for helping you learn how…
Painful Joints and Stiff Muscles | Learn to Move Freely For over 54 million Americans simple movements can be painful due to arthritis, a disease involving inflammation in the joints. On top of that statistic, about 30% of all Americans are currently experiencing back pain, which is the number one cause of lost work days…
What is Inflammation Every time your body is injured, it responds to the damage with inflammation. It doesn’t matter how the injury happened—whether it was cut, punctured, twisted, banged, smashed, scraped, burned, frozen, infected, or poisoned—the response is the same. This means that all disease begins with an inflammation process that must be reversed before…
Lymphatic Drainage is a critical secret to relieving pain, healing old injuries, reversing chronic disease and keeping your immune system strong. In this month’s Sunshine Sharing we are going to take a look at the lymphatic system. The lymphatic system is also known as the plumbing system of the body. We will explore lymphatic stagnation,…
