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Most of us chew our food without ever thinking about the complex processes required to perform this vital action. It may seem a simple task to raise and lower our jaw, but the process of mastication (chewing) requires several components to work together: nerves, muscles, joints, bones, and teeth. A problem with any one component can lead to real medical issues like TMD (temporomandibular joint disorder), which causes chronic pain and other symptoms.

Mastication Mechanics

In order to raise the lower jaw (mandible) into contact with the upper dental arch (maxilla), your brain sends a signal to a collection of four muscles, the tensor tympani, tensor veli palatini, mylohyoid, and the digastric. These muscles pull the mandible up and back, flexing the temporomandibular joint, often called the TMJ. Continue reading ‘The Science Behind the Bite’ »

Throbbing pain. Vice-like pinching. Pressure. Tension. There are many ways to describe a headache and recent research has shown headaches to be more than just a mere annoyance. Headaches are, well, a major headache for the United States where 157 million workdays – accounting for almost $13 billion!! – are lost each year due to missed work caused by headaches. Fortunately, recent research has also shown that regular massage therapy can help ease the intensity, duration, and number of tension-type headaches, a pain that 78 percent of American will experience in their lifetime.

The effectiveness of massage for preventing and lessening the pain caused by headaches is another reason why people should use massage to improve their health and quality of life. But this research could turn out to be a Godsend for those who don’t just suffer from infrequent headaches, but, instead, chronic tension-type headaches. Continue reading ‘Regular Massage Helps Reduce Frequency, Intensity of Chronic Tension-Type Headaches’ »

As you age, chronic pain can occur seemingly overnight. Joint pain symptoms can erode not only your active lifestyle but quality of life overall. Arthritis based diseases target the tissue and cartilage that cushions your knee, wrist and other joints causing inflammation and ongoing soreness.

If you are among the millions of aging women across the country, you are dealing with daily health issues with chronic joint pain being at the top of the list. Certainly, physical activity and sports related injuries can cause stiffness and lack of mobility in your knees, ankles and toes. But your feet can also be affected by age related diseases like gout, which can target the same areas and be excruciatingly painful.

In addition, many women can look to their footwear as a direct reason why they are having issues with their feet and toes. Overuse of these types of shoes may cause a woman to experience tenderness and pain resulting in conditions such as bunions or corns. Bunions, corns and calluses are caused or aggravated by poor fitting footwear that do not allow the feet to position themselves naturally when standing or walking. Continue reading ‘Is Your Joint Pain a Symptom of Old Age Or Your High Heels?’ »

People saved from the brink of death by the one-minute cure…

Sir / Madam

I want to tell you something *startling* that you
may not know about.

Dr. Lance Moriarty, the Director of a medical
clinic in Nairobi, Kenya (where 1 out of every 8
people is infected with AIDS or HIV), reported
that “Some patients have literally been dragged
back from the brink of death” from the use of the
natural oxygenating substance revealed in “The
One-Minute Cure.”

The one-minute cure was given to 50 patients who
came to the clinic suffering from AIDS or the HIV
virus.  Thirty of them went into immediate
remission and the rest reported an increase in
energy and a sense of well-being.

This success rate is *unheard of* in the
medical and pharmaceutical world where AIDS is
still considered incurable!  Dr. Moriarty went on
to say that whenever the one-minute cure is
administered into the community, “People come back
to life. It blows my mind!” Continue reading ‘People saved from the brink of death by the one-minute cure’ »