6 Simple Exercises To Keep Knee Pain At Bay by Diana Chin

Written by Guest Author on March 26, · 1 Comment

knee pain exercises Exercise is one of the best remedies for those who find themselves dealing with chronic knee pain. So here are 6 simple exercises to keep knee pain at bay. That said, exercises must be chosen carefully to avoid worsening the problem. One safety tip for those who combat pain in the knees with exercise is this: they should avoid bending legs to the point where the knees stick out further than the toes. That is a recipe for trouble as it causes too much pressure to be placed under the kneecap.

6 Simple Exercises To Keep Knee Pain At Bay

The Relationship Between Being Overweight and Pain in the Knees
Being overweight plays a large role in knee health and can cause knee pain as excess pounds add to the weight that the knees must carry. The more weight a person carries, the more likely they are to need a complete knee replacement in the future. This means that among the first steps that an individual should take towards pain-free knees is to lose weight.

Exercises for Preventing and Relieving Pain in the Knees
• Sitting Half-Squats
This exercise involves sitting in an armless chair with arms hanging loose and relaxed and then rising to a standing position. The feet should be kept flat on the floor at all times.

• Hamstring Stretches
The person doing this exercise should sit on the floor with both of their legs stretched out before them. They should place the bottom of one foot against the inner thigh of the other leg. They should then bend forward at the hips to touch the ankle of the outstretched leg.

• Step-Ups
This exercise consists of stepping up onto a bench or staircase with one foot then repeating with the other foot. At all times during this exercise, the knee should be positioned directly above the ankle.

• Quad-stretch
Stretching the quadriceps is a good way to improve range of motion of the knee. The individual bends one leg behind them, using a table or wall to support them. They then grab hold of their ankle and pull it up to their buttock. This is done with one leg and then the other.

• Leg Lifts
The individual should first lie on their stomach on the floor. They should then lift one leg about six inches off the floor and hold the position for as long as possible before repeating with the other leg.

• Wall Slides
This exercise involves an individual standing with their back against a wall and then bending their knees about 30 degrees and straightening back up again. This should be repeated several times, and they should attempt to hold themselves with their legs in the bent position for as long as possible.

General exercises such as walking and running are all important for knee health and can help to increase an individual’s knee-strength and range of motion. If high-impact exercises cause pain or discomfort, an exercise bike is a good way to get many of the same benefits without the additional pain. Exercising for good knee-health and for easing hurting knees should be done at least three or four times per week.

Diana Chin is a health consultant and writes on subjects of joint and knee pain treatment, especially for athletes.

Low Back Pain Cure Is Easy

Written by Dr. Houston Vetter - DocResults: Holistic Health Editor on October 9, · Leave a Comment

Many people don’t think a low back pain cure is easy. Especially those who suffer with low back pain. Just the other day we wrote an article that pointed out that one out of six people who had pain surgery still suffer chronic pain 12 months after surgery.

Found this article over at examiner.com that doesn’t think…

Low Back Pain Cure Is Easy

Low back pain suffers cost U.S. healthcare dollars about $100 billion dollars annually. Surely you know of someone who has had low back pain at some point in their life. Possibly you know someone who has had low back pain for a long time and have even given up certain activities or a job because of their pain. There are television commercials claiming a quick fix to low back pain.

In reality the low back is more complex than that. Actually, what is more complex is the person suffering from the low back pain. Every one has a different story and everyone has a different pain experience. What is painful for you may not be as painful for me. Sometimes just understanding that the back is meant to move and that most episodes of low back pain is benign can help begin the healing process of back pain. Many people who experience a strong pain when they bend over tend to freeze with fear and do not move. After several days of this frozen state, they seek attention and already the body has conformed and stiffened up which alters the recovery process. Studies have shown that bed rest is no more beneficial than activity after acute low back pain. So it is important to reduce any significant fear related to low back pain and avoid freezing.

Click here to read more about not believing low back pain cure is easy.

There are so many modalities that are out right now that get tremendous results with low back pain from The Yuen Method to Vibrational Innergetics just to mention a few.

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Headache Relief – Botox Not Just For Wrinkles Anymore

Written by Dr. Houston Vetter - DocResults: Holistic Health Editor on June 11, · Leave a Comment

Headache relief – Botox not just for wrinkles anymore and I’m not sure that’s a good thing. I was once dating a beautiful blonde (at least most of the time) from Russia. One day out of the blue she said, “I need you to get rid of these wrinkles around my eyes and forehead.” Of course being a man I had not seen them before she said anything and even after she said something, they were so small I didn’t even notice them. And yet to her they were big, bad and ugly and I had to take her to get botox to remove her wrinkles.

Ran across a news report from wtnh.com in Connecticut that talked about a new way to use Botox…

Headache Relief – Botox Not Just For Wrinkles Anymore

(WTNH) — Saint Raphael’s headache program offers cutting edge treatments and support for those with severe headaches and migraines.

A few of the treatments include physical therapy, medication, and surgery. Botox is also a cutting-edge treatment that has provided relief for many migraine sufferers.

• Botox is not just for wrinkles: This treatment is being used by neurologists for debilitating conditions such as muscle spasticity from stroke and migraines.
• Botox has been approved by the FDA for treatment of migraines and has shown great success in studies.
• The injections are given in small doses into the head and back of the neck every three months with results seen as early as a few weeks.

Click here to find out what else besides Botox they are using for headache relief…

Migraine headaches are some of the most debilitating headaches one can have. If Botox can bring relief from the pain of migraines then it has moved from making the outside pretty to making the inside feel pretty.

OK girls now you have a new reason to tell your man you need botox.

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Back Pain Drugs Fail To Do The Job

Written by Dr. Houston Vetter - DocResults: Holistic Health Editor on April 25, · 3 Comments

People all over the world are desperate for back pain relief and to often back pain drugs fail to do the job. And we are talking about things like steroids and other drugs with harmful side effects as well. Steroids do better but not good enough.

Recently Johns Hopkins led a study that they reported in their JHU Gazette

Back Pain Drugs Fail To Do The Job

Despite the great promise that injecting a new type of anti-inflammatory pain medicine into the spine could relieve the severe leg and lower back pain of sciatica, a Johns Hopkins–led study has found that the current standard of care with steroid injections still does better.

Etanercept, sold under the brand name Enbrel, is a genetically engineered small-protein drug known as a tumor necrosis factor, or TNF, inhibitor. Currently, it is used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune disorders in which the immune system attacks healthy tissue causing pain, swelling and damage. The drug blocks TNF, a naturally produced substance that causes inflammation.

A team led by Steven P. Cohen, an associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, conducted a blinded, placebo-controlled study, providing epidural injections of either 60 milligrams of a steroid, 4 milligrams of etanercept or 2 milliliters of saline to 84 adult patients with sciatica. One month after the second of two injections, the patients on steroids reported less pain and less disability than those in the other two groups. The study is published in the April 17 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Cohen says that studies with etanercept grew out of efforts to prevent or limit the pain that commonly comes from a herniated disc pressing on a nerve root in the lower back or neck. Steroids work, he says, but they are not without drawbacks, including mixed and only temporary results in relieving pain, and the potential for catastrophic complications. Pain experts have long been working to try to find an alternative treatment that is safe and reliable, he notes.

“People are desperate for a safer, more effective drug,” Cohen said. “This new treatment shows a lot of promise, but at least in the doses we gave it—the dose known to be safe—steroids still work better. And in those lower doses, etanercept may not be the drug everyone’s hoping it is. There’s still a lot more work to be done.”

Click to read more about how back pain drugs fail

The interesting and missing aspect of this study is anything that reduces or eliminates back pain safely without any harmful side effects and permanent. If seems that Dr. Cohen is missing the real point when he says “People are desperate for a safer, more effective drug.” It only shows you where the mindset is off. People are not desperate for a safer or more effective drug, they are desperate for pain relief and would really prefer pain elimination.

Here is something I sent in to John Hopkins…

Hello,

I really respect the work that Johns Hopkins does to try to elevate pain and help people get healthy. I wasn’t surprise by the statement from Dr. Cohen, “The effects of steroids didn’t last.” I’m not sure but I wonder if you could get a study funded that combined pharmaceutics and a holistic health procedure such as energy psychology and test it against just the pharmaceutics. I would suspect that the percentages that all seemed low (less than 40%) in the reported study would raise significantly.

To Your Best,
Houston
Dr. Vetter – DocResults

Yes back pain drugs fail to do the job so badly that we now have a major epidemic of back pain suffers so much so they it has been divided into different categories, back pain, chronic back pain, lower back pain, sciatica back pain, upper back pain, etc. All because of the failure of combining complimentary medicine like energy medicine and energy psychology and other alternatives in with the drug regiments.

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Doing Sit Ups Right To Stop The Pain [VIDEO]

Written by Dr. Houston Vetter - DocResults: Holistic Health Editor on April 2, · Leave a Comment

Yes you read the title of the article right, if you have back pain you may want to start doing sit ups right to stop the pain. Many people think that sit ups strengthen the back however if the back muscles are not stretched properly the stress and strain of the normal sit up can have adverse effects on your back. So there are specific actions you can take to do sit ups the right way to help strengthen the back

Here is a video from Health Services

Doing Sit Ups Right To Stop The Pain

Strengthening the back can help when doing sit ups but if you have back pain stop doing sit ups the wrong way and start doing sit ups right to stop the pain.

Please share this with those you know in pain.

Insurance Companies Say Enough To Back Pain Surgery

Written by Dr. Houston Vetter - DocResults: Holistic Health Editor on March 8, · Leave a Comment

Severe Back Pain Relief Without Surgery

It is finally happening, you probably knew it was going to happen sooner or later. The insurance companies say enough to back pain surgery. The cost of surgery for back pain is rising daily and the percentages of relief is as low as 50% so it is no wonder insurance companies say enough to back pain.

The option, use something with a higher percentage of pain relief and a much lower cost to achieve it.

Patricia Sarath wrote and article over at Bizmology and in it she said…

Health insurers have had it up to here with back pain. It’s prevalent, expensive, and surgery doesn’t do a good job of fixing it.So some insurance providers are saying, “Enough!” and making patients try less-invasive treatments before undergoing surgery.

John Fox, M.D., Priority [Health]’s associate vice president of medical affairs, said patients who have non-emergency back pain have been required since November 2007 to consult with a physiatrist — a rehabilitation physician — about treatment options before surgery.

Fox said studies show that 90 percent of patients with acute back pain improve within six months with conservative care — aspirin, ibuprofen, education, light exercise and physical therapy when warranted.

An estimated 1.2 million spinal surgeries are performed each year in the U.S., according to the National Center for Health Statistics. More than 300,000 are spinal fusions that average $60,000 per procedure.

Some studies have shown that back surgery failure rate, known as failed back syndrome, is as high as 50 percent.

That’s a dismal failure rate. So while insurance companies are in it to save money, in this case, they have their balance sheet and their patients’ best interests at heart. While this news is bad for back surgeons, it’s great for alternative therapy providers, physical therapists, acupuncturists, and chiropractors. Especially chiropractors, since chiropractic care is already seen as tailor-made for the relief of back and neck pain.

It is a good thing insurance companies say enough to back pain surgery in most cases as the success rate of back surgery is not that good and it is cost prohibited to the average person. Even after an insurance company pay the usual and customary 80% on a $60,000 back surgery, the consumer is left owning $12,000 and often still suffers excruciating back pain.

That doesn’t have to be the case. There are many complimentary and alternative processes from chiropractic care to energy medicine and energy psychology that get a much higher level of pain relief and even pain elimination for acute and chronic back pain.

Pain Relief Requires No Classification

Written by Dr. Houston Vetter - DocResults: Holistic Health Editor on March 6, · 1 Comment

Pain Relief Requires No Classification

I don’t know if you find it frustrating when talking about pain relief you hear people talking about classifications of pain instead of how to relieve pain. Pain Relief requires no classification whether or not some decide to classify pain. I ran across an United Kingdom article over at healingbackpain.co.uk that gives no information in the article about healing back pain or pain relief of any kind.

Pain Relief Requires No Classification

After many years of research and billions of pounds spent on medical treatments, not to mention more billions in loss of productivity for employers and loss of income for employees, back pain is still an ailment that refuses to be easily classified.

There is an extensive list of possible causes, but physicians generally categorise back pain into three types.

Acute back pain is commonly defined as pain that has been present for up to six weeks; sub-acute lasts six to twelve weeks; chronic defines back pain that lasts more than twelve weeks. As clinical definitions there are also three categories: non-specific back problems, sciatica and potentially serious spinal conditions.

There are also various ‘high risk’ factors for back pain, not a comprehensive list but useful for a preliminary diagnosis. Some of these factors can be lessened by a change in lifestyle, some can’t.

Among the former, the list includes lack of exercise, smoking, overweight, poor posture and ‘desk jobs’ or jobs that require constant lifting or bending or constant vibration (like operating a jackhammer). The latter category includes back injuries, age, gender (male) and spinal defects, amongst others.

The majority of back pain falls in the acute category, namely sprains from overexertion or other events that cause ligaments to stretch too far and/or muscles to tear. Again, in the majority of cases pain goes away within a few days or weeks with rest and without any special treatment. However due to the complexity of the problem, physicians have developed a list of ‘red flags’ that could indicate more serious underlying problems.

A red flag could be pain in the upper part of the spine, or pain accompanied by fever or weight loss, or first-time back pain in someone younger than 20 or older than 55. Other red flags or warning signs include back pain following a violent injury, constant pain that gets worse, and even ‘painless’ symptoms such as loss of sensation or loss of control of bladder or bowels.

If there are no red flags in evidence, conservative treatment or no treatment at all is the usual procedure. The most effective initial course of action for patient and physician is a careful observation of symptoms and examination of the patient’s medical history and general lifestyle.

The truth of the matter pain relief requires no classification because when you relieve pain and eliminate it there is no class to put it in as there is no longer any pain.

Please share this with anyone who is in pain and their doctor is trying to classify what kind of pain it is. Everyone deserves pain relief, not classification.

Preventing Lumbago Is Not A New Model of Winnebago.

Written by Dr. Houston Vetter - DocResults: Holistic Health Editor on March 5, · Leave a Comment

My Aching Lumbago

It’s not a new model of Winnebago. In fact preventing lumbago is not about vans or trucks, lumbago is a term for back pain, or more accurately lower back pain. And there are easy ways to eliminate it today.

Back pain is big business and they have divided pain into two categories with sub categories. The main categories are…

acute – pain that last less than 6 weeks
chronic – pain that last more than 12 weeks.

With the new cutting edge technology that is being rediscovered and used today pain is more easily removed and eliminated and yet for the professionals getting them to look at, consider or even try the new paradigm is often a difficult endeavor.

Here is something most professional agree with and yet it seems by the number of recurring lumbago patients it isn’t stressed that much.

Preventing Lumbago

From informedhealthonline.org:

Preventing recurring low back pain

A group of researchers from the Cochrane Collaboration – an international network of researchers – wanted to find out if physical exercise could prevent low back pain from recurring. They did a search for trials testing whether strength exercises, gymnastics and endurance training helped to prevent non-specific low back pain. In these trials volunteers were randomly divided into groups. These groups were then given different treatments and were then compared.

The researchers found nine trials involving a total of about 1,500 participants. The exercise programs in the trials started at different points in the treatment process: In five of the trials the participants already started doing exercises while they were still having treatment for acute pain. In the other four trials the participants only started doing exercises once the pain had improved. In most of the trials, the exercises were led by a physiotherapist. The exercise sessions lasted between 15 minutes and one hour, and the participants exercised several times a week for up to a few months. People whose back pain had a known cause, such as bone fractures, tumors or infections, did not participate in the trials.

It helps to do exercises once treatment is over

Exercises after treatment

In some trials the participants started doing special exercises led by a physiotherapist once their treatment for acute symptoms was completed. They were compared with a group of people who did not follow this kind of exercise program. The outcome: exercises led to fewer recurrences of low back pain in the first two years. In two smaller trials researchers tested a program using regular exercise following treatment of acute symptoms and looked at how many of the participants had low back pain returning within the first two years:

33 out of 100 people in the exercise group had a further bout of low back pain.

65 out of 100 people who did not do exercises had a further bout of low back pain.

Other small-scale trials that tested using a regular exercise program after treatment of acute symptoms looked at how often people took sick leave from work. The researchers found that those who had the exercise programs took sick leave just as often as those who did not, but they did have fewer days of absence overall.

Yes exercise is a good way to prevent pain of any kind returning. And with the new cutting edge pain elimination protocols a much higher percentage of people can get pain relief. So if you think preventing lumbago is a good idea share this article with others.

Cutting Edge Pain Treatments Really?

Written by Dr. Houston Vetter - DocResults: Holistic Health Editor on February 2, · Leave a Comment

Cutting Edge Pain Treatments Really? Sometimes I can’t believe what I read. I saw a headline about 9 news ways to relieve chronic back pain and since I like to study and learn cutting edge technology I thought I would learn something so I went to the article and I learned something alright and it was probably just what I needed to learn. Cutting edge technology and being on the cutting edge really does leave you out there.

Cutting Edge Pain Treatments Really?

Here is some of the article by Diane Wedner in lifescript healthy living for women.

You’ve tried all the typical back-pain treatments, from anti-inflammatory drugs to physical therapy, with little relief. But don’t give up: There’s hope with cutting-edge therapies, from new drug regimens to surgeries that target the spine. Lifescript’s Medical Detective uncovers the top new treatments for chronic back pain…

Millions of women suffer from chronic back pain, triggered by pregnancy, toting tots, hauling groceries and those heavy purses that hold everything but the kitchen sink.

It all takes a toll on the spine, triggering pain that can turn everyday movements into agonizing impossibilities.

“Back pain is the major cause of pain and disability in this country,” says anesthesiologist George W. Pasvankas, M.D., medical director of the Pain Management Center at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. “It’s the most frequent [reason patients ask] for medical care.”

Most back pain problems are short-lived and can be eased with mild exercise and anti-inflammatory drugs, doctors say.

But that’s not true for about 26 million Americans with chronic back pain. They live with excruciating aches and spasms that last 6 weeks or longer. They can’t get relief with over-the-counter analgesics or gentle yoga poses.

Now, some cutting-edge remedies are providing pain relief where ordinary therapies and medications fail. Lifescript’s Medical Detective unveils the top 9 breakthroughs for the most difficult back pain cases.

Now with an introduction like that you would think there would be at least some discussion of the breakthroughs being used in some of the Behavioral Hospitals around the country, if not some of the cutting edge Energy and Quantum Vibrational technology out that is getting higher percentages than most everything available.

Here are the 9 breakthroughs found in this article. (I say breakthroughs as it pertains to the modern medical community and not to the pain relief community.)

Chronic back pain treatments #1:

Gabapentin Chronic back pain treatments #2: Methadone

Chronic back pain treatments #3: Ketamine

Chronic back pain treatments #4: Pain pump

Chronic back pain treatments #5: Sympathetic nerve blocks

Chronic back pain treatments #6: Radiofrequency ablation (RFA)

Chronic back pain treatments #7: Spinal cord stimulation

Chronic back pain treatments #8: Kyphoplasty

Chronic back pain treatments #9: Lumbar decompression

All the things that should be the last resort are the first response. Now do you see why I the title of this is cutting edge pain treatments really? Every single one of these involve either another medication, shoots and/or surgery. When are we ever gonna learn. Using the same thing that we’ve been using before will get the same results. A small percentage will get relief and the majority will continue to suffer.

Using actual cutting edge technology we are seeing some tremendous results with relief, reduction and eliminating of pain. And in most cases in 1 to 3 sessions even with chronic pain.

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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Headaches

Written by Dr. Houston Vetter - DocResults: Holistic Health Editor on January 20, · Leave a Comment

When I saw this from chart I thought about you because it covers everything you ever wanted to know about headaches. This applies to every type of headache you can think of. You name it stress headache, sinus headache, migraine headache, tension headache, chronic headaches, acute headache, cluster headache and any other you can name this chart gives you the facts.

I want to thank Mount Sinai Hospital for putting this out.

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Headaches

mountsinai.org

Source: Mount Sinai Medical CenterAnd the number #1 thing to remember…out of everything you ever wanted to know about headaches is that no matter what kind of headache you have if you want to get rid of it Quantum-Vibrational Innergetics can eliminate it for you.