Steve Hefferon
Article courtesy of Steve Hefferon, CMT of The Healthy Back Institute. You can take advantage of the many available free resources on their website by visiting http://www.losethebackpain.com
Articles by Steve Hefferon
July 28, 2009
If you have lingering pain, tightness, or restriction of certain movements... here is some valuable information that will encourage you to consider the possibility that trigger points may be the missing link in your quest for relief.
July 28, 2009
Rolfing has allowed people to stand straighter, move better then ever and gain height through its focus on correcting tissue fixations. So if you suffer muscle or skeletal pain and have tried traditional massage, why not go one step farther and give Rolfing a try...
July 28, 2009
The Sacroiliac joint (SI) connects the base of the spine to the pelvis, this joint can become irritated and is easily inflamed, resulting in pain in the lower back and buttocks. Learn the causes, symptoms and treatments that work best...
June 03, 2009
In traditional medicine, back pain is often treated by surgery. And it often doesn't work. So often, in fact, that back pain surgery is the only category of surgery that actually has a clinical term for failure: Failed Back Surgery Syndrome.
If you ask me, any treatment that actually expects fai...
September 30, 2008
You can have serious conditions and still have no pain... put in the effort and believe... gain the power to heal yourself back in your control.
July 31, 2008
Working out can lead to injury... the challenge is in knowing how it can happen and how to prevent it... and learn to listen to your body its telling you something...
July 14, 2008
Sleep helps your body heal. If you're not getting good sleep you're not giving your muscles, especially your back muscles, time to rejuvenate themselves for the next day's activities...
March 30, 2008
Back pain can suck the joy right out of your life…learn and adopt Inversion Therapy to find relief…
December 20, 2007
Whether you have flat abs or a beer belly, you can experience pain due to excess abdominal gas and excess fecal matter in your intestines. It has been said that if you have only one bowel movement a day, you have up to eight meals left in your intestines. Gas can develop in a matter of hours after e...
December 15, 2007
Millions of people struggle with back pain and fail to get lasting relief and the primary reason is a lack of knowledge and understanding about back pain.
In our work with over 20,000 back pain sufferers here at The Healthy Back Institute, we have identified several questions that are common am...
December 15, 2007
Back pain affects millions of people each and every year. For many, they’re lives are never the same.
Unfortunately, many people suffer for weeks, months and even years unnecessarily and one of the reasons is a lack of good information.
Much of the information that is given to people regardi...
December 15, 2007
The last time I gave advice to a bodybuilder was in 1981. I was a freshman in high school, and I told a friend's brother to "slow down his reps." I thought that was good information, seeing as how I had just read it in article by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Well, this guy put the weight down and kneed me...
December 15, 2007
Question: I don't have back pain, but when I look at my self my Back and Shoulders look Rounded, is that just Bad Posture?
A: Well Sue let me help you understand what you see…Everyone uses the very common term posture but I don't think people really understand what posture truly means, you see y...
December 15, 2007
What you are about to read is directed to those who suffer from back pain and those who love them. Much of what I'm going to tell you can be useful in all aspects of your life and for any difficult situation you may face.
When dealing with serious back pain, you have to realize that your conditi...
December 15, 2007
Proteolytic enzymes, also referred to as "proteases," are enzymes that break down proteins into their smallest elements. If this breakdown of proteins happens in your gut, we call the enzymes "digestive," because they help us digest our food. Systemic proteolytic enzymes, however, have a completely ...
December 15, 2007
In the smog and rat race of our brave new world, have you ever set time aside to reflect and wonder if you could change or at least learn from your past? Do you even think it is possible to learn from your mistakes? Do you even remember your mistakes?
What if I told you there was a way to step b...
December 15, 2007
From working with back pain sufferers my entire adult life, I've learned that when people are suffering, they will go to great lengths to find relief. Unfortunately, too many people are given very useful but incomplete information about what to do in order to get relief and regain control of their l...
December 13, 2007
A man rushed into a veterinarian's office carrying his limp, lifeless dog. The vet examined the animal and told the man the dog was dead. The man asked if there was any way the doctor could revive the dog. The doctor left the room and returned with a cat, who sniffed the dog from head to tail then l...
December 13, 2007
There's nothing quite like sitting down on a crisp fall Sunday morning to write about my wife's uterus. I suppose I could have written something generic about the topic of uterine fibroids, but I prefer to write personal stories about true-life experiences that have the potential to inspire and moti...
December 13, 2007
Research by Drs. Janet Travell and David Simons, authors of "The Trigger Point Manual," has shown that trigger points are the primary cause of pain at least 75 percent of the time and are a factor in nearly every painful condition.
Trigger points, a type of muscle stiffness, are the result of tin...
November 30, 1999
For some guys, it may be difficult to see a downside to women with large breasts. But for 1 million women who are—let us say "generously endowed"—it can be a source of considerable pain. Some women, in fact, suffer with severe pain, deteriorating posture, and are at risk for spinal deformity and oth...