Body alignment refers to how everything is positioned internally. Tai Chi teaches you how to recognize your body’s alignment and to achieve the best possible body alignment for whatever activity you are doing at the time both in combat situations and otherwise.

What can you do when you have pain, especially on a daily basis, and don’t want to risk the possible side effects of traditional anti-inflammatories? There is something that works quite well, and has been used for centuries.

Shin splints (Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome): that nagging, painful throbbing you experience in your lower leg during and after your workouts. It’s often the result of overtraining or running on hard surfaces which causes painful trauma either in the muscles or bones of the lower leg (tibia and fibula). Figuring out how to get rid of shin splints can be an athlete’s worst nightmare.

Did you know the average American consumes about 124 pounds of food additives each year? Many of these additives cause headaches, habitual muscle tension and chronic back or neck pain.

Gallstones are hard lumps of the stored chemical in the gallbladder. Gallbladder is a small bag-shaped organ, which is typically used to keep the bile produced by the liver that flows by the bile duct going to the intestines to be use in dissolving food. Cholesterol, pigments, bile salts and when organic balance of these chemical compounds is broken up is some reason gallstones are developed.

Spinal Decompression Therapy is a revolutionary non-surgical treatment that can effectively treat back, neck, arm, and leg pain. There is substantial research to back up the efficacy of the treatment, and many patients have avoided surgery with decompression.

With the advent of cost containment in the medical sector of the U.S. economy there are new, cost effective products emerging on the market. Some of them deserve more attention for their efficacy and costs.

And yet another time you did the very same thing without thinking twice? I’m not talking about good pain days and bad pain days here, what I am talking about is motivation.

People with acne have tried dozens of things to try and get rid of their problem. Some experience success, yet most achieve nothing and usually give up as a result. A lot of the proposed solutions that people try are pharmaceutical but the problem with these drugs that people are taking is that they usually have some unwanted side effects that cause unpleasant problems that most people just do not want to deal with while already having the acne problem.

In this part 1 of a 7 series intensive on lower back pain I will lay a foundation by sharing a brief overview on lower back pain. To learn the main causes and who suffers, associated conditions, how pain is diagnosed, common treatments, steps to prevent back pain, and some quick tips to live with a pain free back you will want to review the other 6 parts to this series listed below.