Be Well, Do Well and Keep Moving
Gentle Reader, Sciatica, sciatica, sciatica. On every hand I hear people complaining about sciatic pain, drop foot, back difficulties and arthritis in general. A vital member of my Wednesday hiking group is suffering terribly from sciatica these days so I decided to revisit a post I drafted several years ago when I was having the …
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Heal Back Pain I struck gold when mining my magazine and journal basket in the bathroom recently. In a 2011 issue (January) of Seattle Woman Magazine, Nancy Shatz Aton gives us 10 ways to heal back pain. This excellent list comes from her book, The Healthy Back Book: A Guide to Whole Healing for Outdoor …
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Gentle Reader, I will tell you what the first barrier of resistance is not. We move right through it in our typical stretches prior to a walk, run, bike or hike. You are stretching. You put your foot on the lower rail of the fence, leg at full extension and you lean forward …
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Gentle Reader, His long legs and narrow hips will soon carry him back to the gym. He will be back on the machines and lose the ‘love handles’ that have crept on from lack of exercise. The long process of identifying what caused the sciatica, the sharp pinching pain radiating down the leg, making his …
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Gentle Reader, I don’t know about you, but the talk around me is about the latest aches and pain and what to do about it. We’ve had foggy weather and below freezing temperatures out here in the Northwest. One friend declared she couldn’t possibly so out because she might slip and fall. Another friend wants …
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Gentle Reader, I am back safe and sound from my hike through the Engadine Valley in the Alps in Switzerland and the Writers Workshop in Villa Lina north of Rome. And my body is not suffering from arthritis! Sitting in the airplane for the long flight to Amsterdam, the first stop of my journey, I …
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Traumatic injury: my story Posted on October 18, 2011 Hello, Gentle Reader, In 1989, I lifted, or should I more accurately say, yanked a large drink box full of wine bottles out of the back seat of a two door Datsun. I heard something go in my lower back. I was angry about carrying these …
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This is a brand new blog about keeping moving when the pain sets in. Don’t fall into a wheelchair if you can possibly help it. I’ll be sharing ideas about how to handle pain from arthritis, some things I’ve done to stay upright and walking with severe spinal stenosis. We all need to help each …
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