Jack Heggie And Nociceptive Foot Pain Mind Control: Think Away Your ‘Plantar Fasciitis’

Jack Heggie And Nociceptive Foot Pain Mind Control: Think Away Your 'Plantar Fasciitis'

Nociceptive Foot Pain Mind Control Works You may be able to think your so-called plantar fasciitis away! Think of that! That'll save you a bundle of $$$ For someone with aortic disease, and peripheral vascular disease-induced calf claudication, I had a good day. 2.5-mile trail run with Willbe, our yellow lab (early morning). 35-mile bike ride, hitting the hills pretty hard (mid-morning). 2.5-mile ... Read more

A Paradigm Shift Can Improve Your Life, So Be Unreasonable!

A Paradigm Shift Can Improve Your Life, So Be Unreasonable!

How We Think Is How We Live The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) This subject came to mind today, while talking to my friend, massage therapist and body movement instructor, Tara House. We were ... Read more

A Classic Example Of Nociceptive Foot Pain (NLFP) Originating In The Hips

A Classic Example Of Nociceptive Foot Pain (NLFP) Originating In The Hips

Nociceptive Lateral Foot Pain (NLFP) During 70-Mile Bike Ride The body contains specialized nerve cells called nociceptors that detect noxious stimuli or things that could damage the body, such as extreme heat or cold, pressure, pinching, and chemicals. These warning signals are then passed along the nervous system to the brain, resulting in nociceptive pain. Danielle Dresden (2017) Cruising along on ... Read more

PAIN BOOK PROMOTION: Free ebook for two days only – Pain, Good Friend, Bad Master

PAIN BOOK PROMOTION: Free ebook for two days only - Pain, Good Friend, Bad Master

PAIN, GOOD FRIEND, BAD MASTER BOOK PROMOTION This ebook will be FREE for download from Amazon for TWO DAYS ONLY. Starting tomorrow (Saturday, August 4th, Central time).   This carefully crafted little book contains stories about all kinds of pain. They range from post-surgical pain to love-sickness, with advice on how to best deal with each. Dangerous drugs? There are examples on when ... Read more

Fighting Peripheral Arterial Disease At The Track

Fighting Peripheral Arterial Disease At The Track

Fighting Peripheral Arterial Disease Means Fighting Claudication clau·di·ca·tion MEDICINE Limping: A condition in which cramping pain in the leg is induced by exercise, typically caused by obstruction of the arteries. The trick to fighting peripheral arterial disease is to build collateral circulation, through exercise. Painful exercise. Things have improved considerably over the last ... Read more

Free Pain eBook as a 75th Birthday Gift For My Kind Followers

Free Pain eBook as a 75th Birthday Gift For My Kind Followers

PAIN, GOOD FRIEND, BAD MASTER   How to Interpret, and Cure Your Pain. Pain eBook as a birthday gift to you, on June 29th, 2018. Mark your calendars.   A good life is more about giving than receiving. This FitOldDog turns 75 years young, on Friday, June 29th. I thought it would be nice to give away free copies of my latest ebook, Pain, Good Friend, Bad Master, on my birthday. It ... Read more

Why Exercise With Vascular Disease?

Why Exercise With Vascular Disease?

Exercise With Vascular Disease? It will keep you sane, for a start! If you have a repaired aortic aneurysm, exercise, done right, will keep your aorta strong. This could be critical for an abdominal aortic aneurysm stent graft, especially where those hooks are holding it in place by your kidneys. My hooks have done their job for eight years - how's them apples. Think about it. Yes! Exercise is actually ... Read more

Take Pain Education Seriously Or The Sackler Family Will Get You!

Take Pain Education Seriously Or The Sackler Family Will Get You!

Pain Education? You want to know about the Sackler Family? A Pharmaceutical Ford Pinto! Pain education could have prevented all of this mess: The Family That Built an Empire of Pain: The Sackler Dynasty’s Ruthless Marketing of Painkillers Has Generated Billions of Dollars and Millions of Addicts. Patrick Radden Keefe, A Reporter at Large, The New Yorker, October 30th, 2017. I'm just sitting here, ... Read more

Disclaimer: As a veterinarian, I do not provide medical advice for human animals. If you undertake or modify an exercise program, consult your medical advisors before doing so. Undertaking activities pursued by the author does not mean that he endorses your undertaking such activities, which is clearly your decision and responsibility. Be careful and sensible, please.