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Whether you identify yourself as having 'fibromyalgia symptoms' or not, "chronic pain" or not, have YOU ever gone to someone who does 'bodywork', or "manual therapy",  to have them work on "tight muscles", or "painful muscles", and you've come away with a different outcome that you'd hoped? Unfortunately, it happens quite often, and so I wanted to provide information here about how to increase your odds of getting the results you want from such a service provider.  read more »

I found a REALLY GRATE topic at Oprah.com today about the fascia of the muscles moving our body, which not only contributes to ongoing muscle pain for people (some think if it as 'chronic pain', it actually has a deep connection to the mind/body system.  So I wanted to share it with you here.  My FAVORITE part of the whole things, which I highly suggest you look at with all the great pictures they have at their website with it, not the stripped down version I have 'transported for you' below, is this:   read more »

I have been an avid skier all of my life.  My skiing days ended when I took a bad fall on our stairs and broke the left fibula in 2003.  I ended up having surgery that consisted of a plate and 5 screws.  I am sure that I also twisted my knee and added to the damage with the lower leg/ankle's lacking it's usual mobility during the recovery process. Skiing injuries added to my weakened knee.
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