This is the kind of physical therapist I want to be…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9ogP6a9Zs4 …assuming I ever make it into PT school! 🙂
Tag: health
Inflammation, Fibromyalgia, and Deceptive Marketing Tactics
Ok, so I wish I could stop going on angry rants on this blog. But, ironically, some of my rants have turned out to be among my most popular posts… so I’m going to keep...
Nutrition Skepticism is Healthy
This is a great article on the nutrition “myths” that get circulated in the health and fitness industry.” It’s from BBoy Science— a site which I really enjoy. I thought this post was incredibly vindicating,...
A little optimism
It’s been almost two weeks since my surgery, and I am finally starting to feel like myself again. It’s actually amazing how normal I feel. When I first got home from the hospital, I felt...
Beware the Red Herring
One of the reasons I sometimes take a critical tone towards alternative medicine on my blog is not always that I think these approaches have no merit. But I do think that, too often, people...
An elderly woman died in a nursing home because staff refused to perform CPR
Just heard about this horrible story tonight. An 87-year-old woman died of a heart attack after she passed out in an assisted living facility in Bakersfield, CA. The nurse who was on duty called 911...
So… I lost an ovary.
Well, blogging friends, I still can’t believe this happened. But this week, I lost my right ovary. On Monday afternoon, I went to the emergency room with extreme abdominal pain in my lower right side. ...
How to Talk About Pain: Central Hypersensitivity
It’s amazing how sometimes a piece of writing that’s only a few paragraphs long can help to clarify something you’ve been thinking about for a while. I found a great article on Body in Mind...
Face to face with my lack of ab strength
The only good thing about being out of shape is that it doesn’t take very much to get a good workout. Ever since I’ve been having my lower back and hip problems, I’ve known that...
Know your enemy
Have you ever had a totally disappointing experience seeing a specialist for help with chronic pain/fibromyalgia? I certainly have… many times. Fellow pain sufferers, we are fighting an uphill battle to be taken seriously. I...