Muscle Pain Relief Tips & Tricks Blog

Sugar is sugar. So they say. Watching young athletes consume the overdose of sweetened drinks makes me wonder who will I get to play with when I am older.

by Edward Barrera

Muscle Stiffness

End muscles stiffness on Friday

Stiffness, schmiffness. Tight, tense, overly worked muscles can recover quickly using the brain and body. While it's true that muscles get shorter overnight, we don't have to live with muscle stiffness

by Edward Barrera

Health and Fitness

Do you pro-prio-cep like a rat?

I'm talking about proprioception. Maybe pro-prio-cep is a lame attempt at talking like our teenagers. How we sense ourselves in the very field of gravity we all live in

by Edward Barrera

Back Care

Exercise

Exercise for back pain to get your back on track

Exercise for back pain is a natural way to help what ails our backs. Somatics exercise is an exercise approach where you learn how to release tight, stiff, sore

by Edward Barrera

Health and Fitness

Get off your butt, get off your butt unless…

Sitting is the way you want to atrophy your muscles, lose in the relationship to gravity and become less functional. Way back when... in the 60's... NASA did studies to see

Why does my calf hurt so much when I stretch it after waking up?

Ever wake up in the middle of the night and stretch your leg yet afterwards the calf will throb and ache like crazy. Why does this happen and is the only

Still exercising and having pain Part 2

Back to the question of ever seeing a cheetah or dog in back pain let alone ever seeing one pull a hamstring? How does another animal tell the other one... wait,

What’s a charlie horse? Who’s your animal?

Many times when people get a cramp in the calf, they'll call it a charlie horse. Since healthy vertebrate animals naturally pandiculate, that is to say, they can take out any

by Edward Barrera

Brain Fitness

Fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia “It” sucks…

13 years or 39 years later depending on your viewpoint, I finally have the cap. Fibromyalgia, FM for short, is a chronic pain condition, disease, syndrome or something which doesn't exist,

by Edward Barrera

Fibromyalgia

Health and Fitness

Pandiculating like a pooch or squirrel

Crashed yesterday while skiing... it was very Bode Miller-esque. Going for speed while having too much fun at age 50. Our daughter, who was in the lodge, wondered who that

by Edward Barrera

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