It’s the big secret to success in health, money, relationships, business, skills and most other endeavors. Make big, long term plans and goals, but taks small, relatively simple actions on a consistent basis to achieve the longer term goals. In health this means doing simple, daily things like stretching for 5 minutes, drinking a glass […]
Proactive Health
Definition: Doing things in your life to avoid health problems. Changing your lifestyle to build your health rather than to diminish it. The benefit of approaching health proactively is you have less problems and overall the ones you have are less serious. I once read a quote from a famous gardner who said “The best […]
Why choose acupuncture over muscle relaxants?
Muscle relaxants have a lot of side effects such as drowsiness, dizzyness, confusion, light headedness and they are habit forming. I recently experienced a rehab patient with some mental side effects of muscle relaxants first hand and it was shocking. In contrast, acupuncture creates an internal, natural response and relaxation. My patients often fall alseep and typically are […]
Permanent Improved health in one hour per day
The big thing is eating better. Imaging a farm where the water supply is slightly imperfect… say acid rain. Any one rain will not do much damage as the following rain will dilute the acid rain remaining in the soil and so on. However, when you have a situation where there is only a mild, […]
Proactive health maintenance
In less than one hour per day, you can change your health profile around. The benefits are many: Look Better Feel Better Have fewer health problems Spend less money on health Have more energy Do more in life Have fewer limitations Have less pain. One hour a day to do a few things differently and […]
A Personal Experience with Muscle Relaxants
Recently I had a family member experience a very serious health issue. I’m leaving out personal details of my family member for their medical privacy. Their serious medical incident was followed by a few weeks of rehab. During rehab, my relative was experiencing serious calf cramping. The attending doctor prescribed a muscle relaxant. I know […]
The Reactive Approach to Maintaining Health
It seems to me that many people have developed or accepted an approach to health that can best be described as reactive. They wait until something develops and then address it. In general, a reactive approach to solving problems seems more time efficient as no time needs to be spent on the problem until “if […]
Be gentle on yourself
In your life, you are often confronted with situations that create negative emotions. I always advise my patients to invest their mental energy in devising actions rather than strong feelings. By strong feelings, I mean guilt, fear, stress, worry and other emotions generally associated with less than optimal health. Talking about changing these feelings is […]
Risks of acupuncture
Bruising, small amounts of bleeding typically one drop, soreness, numbness, naseua. Compare this to the posting on the risks of surgery and you may come to agree with me that trying acupuncture first is a worthy alternative attempt to surgery for movement related problems.
Risks of surgery avoided by acupuncture
Infection, hemorrhage, inflammation, scarring, loss of function, changes in local blood flow. The risk of death from general anesthesia in healthy people is 1 in 200,000, and that’s separate from the risk of the surgery.