Chronic Pain and Anxiety

When Chronic Pain Affects Your Emotions There are many sources of chronic pain. You may, for example, suffer from chronic back pain, chronic neck pain, arthritis, lingering pain from an old injury, or fibromyalgia. Whatever the source of the chronic pain, it can end up having a deleterious affect on your emotions. The pain can take the joy out of life and make activities you value difficult…

Back Pain Stretches for Pain Relief

Back Pain Stretches There are any number of problems that cause back pain. These include slipped discs, arthritis, muscle strain, and arthritis. Whatever the cause, though, back pain can be excruciating and severely limit our ability to perform simple tasks that others take for granted. Small wonder, then, that many people assume such a painful, debilitating condition can only be addressed…

The Relationship Between Chronic Pain and Depression

Chronic Pain and Depressions: Definitions Chronic pain is pain that persists beyond the point where one would expect an injury to heal or an illness to pass. Generally, that means it’s lasted more than three months. Depression is a persistent feeling of sadness lasting more than two weeks. It can involve feelings of hopelessness and guilt, an inability to enjoy things that formerly gave…

Things YOU Can Do to Relieve Arthritis Pain

Arthritis and Arthritis Pain Arthritis is the blanket term for over a hundred diseases. Doctors classify types of arthritis (for example, rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis) partly based on the specific causes, but they’re all disorders that affect the joints. Arthritis can produce a number of symptoms including swollen joints, redness, joint inflammation, stiffness, and, notably, arthritis…

Breath Meditation Practice – A Great Way to Get the Benefits of Meditation

Why Practice Breath Meditation? Used for centuries as a way to relax, heal, reconnect, and focus, meditation has many health benefits, some which we are still just now beginning to understand or accept. One of the most important parts of meditation is breathing and focusing on this one thing alone can make no only your meditation sessions more impactful, but it can improve any regular workout…

Osteoarthritis: an Overview

What is Arthritis? Arthritis is a common affliction. Half of all adults will develop it in at least one knee during their lifetimes, it’s the leading cause of disability in adults, and research indicates that degenerative arthritis is becoming increasingly prevalent in all age groups. But even those who suffer from the condition may not understand exactly what it is. Essentially, arthritis is…

Osteoarthritis and Food

Why Do We Experience Osteoarthritis Pain? There’s an even chance that every one of us during his or her life will develop osteoarthritis. The resulting osteoarthritis pain can have a severe impact on a person’s life, and that’s why medical science has worked so hard to understand the condition. Osteoarthritis brings pain and decreased mobility as the cartilage that provides padding between…

Dangers of Untreated Rheumatoid Arthritis and What You Can do to Fight It

Rheumatoid Arthritis: An Overview Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is one of the most common types of autoimmune disorders. In people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), their immune system ends up attacking and destroying their own joint tissue. This is due to the fact that for reasons that are still unknown, the body’s defense system mistakes the body’s own cells for invaders like viruses and bacteria.…

Why Cellular Energy Matters

Cellular Energy: What It Is and How to Boost It Here at the Pain Relief Institute, we get asked a lot of questions regarding general health and wellbeing. Many of the illnesses and issues plaguing people today stem from poor cellular health and a lack of cellular energy. Billions of years ago, certain cells experienced an invasion by a group of microorganisms that were a form of bacteria. The…