A practical, useful, and most importantly natural approach to preventing and treating everyday pains and injuries. From herbal remedies to health foods and relaxing body treatments, cures to intolerable pain can be found outside the world of constant doctor visits and expensive prescriptions. Organized both by symptom as well as type of pain, Natural Pain Free offers multiple, cause-specific treatments for ailments such as headaches, joint pains, and gout, which can be instigated by multiple sources, as well as acute injuries like burns and sports wounds.

Chronic pain has become an epidemic in North America, yet our current health care system is ill equipped for treating sufferers. An expert in both conventional and holistic medicine, Dr. Heather Tick has spent twenty-five years treating patients for whom “all else has failed.” Based on her experience, Holistic Pain Relief offers practical guidance to anyone with pain. It includes easy-to-implement solutions for effective and permanent pain relief and also offers help to those with chronic conditions who feel confused, worried, or hopeless. Dr. Tick presents a new way of looking at pain with a focus on health. By helping you make informed choices about physical, emotional, and spiritual living, Holistic Pain Relief offers possibilities for recovery and information on a wide range of treatment and prevention options, including acupuncture, chiropractic techniques, intramuscular stimulation, dietary supplements, medication, nutrition, and exercise. The result is a realistic — and inspiring — prescription for pain-free living.

Starting today, you don't have to live in pain. “This book is extraordinary, and I am thrilled to recommend it to anyone who’s interested in dramatically increasing the quality of their physical health.”—Tony Robbins That is the revolutionary message of this breakthrough system for eliminating chronic pain without drugs, surgery, or expensive physical therapy. Developed by Pete Egoscue, a nationally renowned physiologist and sports injury consultant to some of today’s top athletes, the Egoscue Method has an astounding 95 percent success rate. The key is a series of gentle exercises and carefully constructed stretches called E-cises. Inside you’ll find detailed photographs and step-by-step instructions for dozens of e-cizes specifically designed to provide quick and lasting relief of: • Lower back pain, hip problems, sciatica, and bad knees • Carpal tunnel syndrome and even some forms of arthritis • Migraines and other headaches, stiff neck, fatigue, sinus problems, vertigo, and TMJ • Shin splints, varicose veins, sprained or weak ankles, and many foot ailments • Bursitis, tendinitis, and rotator cuff problems Plus special preventive programs for maintaining health through the entire body. With this book in hand, you’re on your way to regaining the greatest gift of all: a pain-free body!

Western medicine has been trying to find out what causes pain without ever learning what pain is. Darrell Stoddard, Founder of the Pain Research Institute, has identified pain as the broken or suppressed electrical signals between cells in injured tissue

As you reach your midforties and beyond, joint pain can become a fact of life. You may suffer from arthritis or old sports injuries, suddenly develop a frozen shoulder, or tear a meniscus in the knee. Whatever the cause of your pain, Secrets of a Pain-Free Life offers a simple, nonsurgical solution that may be right for you: physical therapy. The goal is to recover your ability to do everyday activities. Painful joints can affect many tasks, from the mundane to the specialized, and therefore relief can improve your entire outlook on life. Dr. Stacey Raybuck Schatz, DPT, MS, OCS, presents a reader-friendly overview of how and why physical therapy can help many patients regain pain-free movement naturally and without medications, injections, or surgery. She provides helpful advice on topics such as quick pain relief, the wisdom of treating the symptoms versus the causes of pain, and signs that therapy is working. She also steps back to cover the basics, such as when to seek treatment and where to go. Pain-free movement is often achievable through physical therapy. You owe it to yourself to give it a try before you resort to more intrusive treatment strategies.

Restoring healthy posture from childhood for relief from chronic pain, easy flexibility, and enduring strength and vitality well into old age • Offers 12 physical exercises to become mindful of your posture and discover pain-free alignment of your pelvis, rib cage, shoulders, neck, and back • Provides simple yet detailed instructions on how to sit, stand, walk, bend, get up from a chair, sit to meditate, sleep, and practice yoga with proper alignment • Includes detailed diagrams and posture photographs from around the world Our bones are the framework of support for our bodies, much like the wall studs and beams of a house. Yet the alignment of the skeleton along the vertical axis of gravity is largely overlooked today, even by fitness experts and yoga teachers. In a culture of cocked hips, sauntering models, and slouching TV watchers, where “chin up, shoulders back, stomach in” is believed to be good posture, we have forgotten what healthy alignment looks and feels like--leading to chronic neck, shoulder, and back pain for millions. Sharing photographs from around the world of “gurus” of natural posture and authentic strength, such as women in their 80s who easily carry heavy loads on their heads and toddlers learning to walk, Kathleen Porter shows what natural skeletal alignment truly looks like. With insights based on the fundamental laws of physics and detailed diagrams, she guides you through an understanding of the body’s naturally pain-free design. She explains that when the body is aligned as nature intended, your weight is supported by your bones rather than your muscles, allowing a blissful release from chronic muscular tension--which you may not even be aware you had. She offers 12 physical exercises to become mindful of your posture and discover healthy alignment of your pelvis, rib cage, shoulders, neck, and your body as a whole. Providing easy-to-follow instructions for mindful alignment during the most ordinary daily activities, even sleeping, as well as a chapter on practicing yoga safely, Porter shows how returning to our forgotten alignment from childhood can offer relief from chronic pain and tension and can provide easy flexibility, enduring strength, and vitality well into old age.

Your essential guide to fighting pain the natural way! Make trips to the pharmacy a thing of the past with this indispensable guide to relieving pain.