What Doctors Don't Tell YouFour years ago (WDDTY, vol 8, no 6) when I first wrote about rheumatoid arthritis (RA), I reported that wearing copper bracelets, correcting low gastric acid, identifying environmental and food allergies,
Many people suffer all their lives with this severe type of headache, which can last for hours or even days. Often starting on one side of the head, it causes severe pain and problems with light.
Tension headaches result when the musdes of your scalp or the nerves supplying them release lactate, serotonin, bradykinin and prostaglandins, any of which significantly lower the pain threshold.
If you have low back pain, instead of rushing to your own doctor, first try the most conservative management you can. Dr William Kirkaldy-Willis, retired emeritus professor of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Saskatchewan...
Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the scourge of the modern workplace. The median nerve becomes entrapped as it passes through the wrist, causing weakness, clumsiness, pain or numbness in the hand.
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Try osteopathy before grommets
Osteopathy offers a long-term solution to acute otitis media (AOM), a childhood ear infection usually treated with antibiotics.
Acute otitis media is a painful and nasty disease of the middle ear in children, which doctors usually treat with courses of antibiotics. Unfortunately, this often offers only a short-lived reprieve, if any, and the child may sometimes have to...
Osteopathy is highly successful in treating carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), especially using what they call the ‘opponens roll’ manoeuvre. In a small study to assess the effectiveness of this procedure
* Investigate the cause of your CTS. If it’s a symptom of, say, rheumatoid arthritis or hypo/hyperthyroidism, treat that condition first.
* When not a symptom of a disease, it’s likely to be a structural problem, so try osteopathy (see box, p 11).
Janet Zand LAc OMDEvery year, over 10 million children in the U.S. are treated for ear infections. Infections of the middle ear are most common in children between six months and three years. Natural health expert, Janet Zand, L.Ac. O.M.D., outlines a comprehensive...
