Archive for April, 2008

Trigger point therapy is also termed as “myofascial trigger point therapy”.

This is a body work method that consists of applying the pressure to the tender muscle tissues to get relief from pain and dysfunction in other parts of your body.

Sometimes, massage technique and trigger point therapy are performed jointly. You will get a doubt that what are the trigger points.

These are basically the areas of tenderness in the muscles. There are two types of trigger points in your body, one is active and the other is latent.

Active trigger points develop muscular pain and when the pressure is applied, they transmit the pain and tenderness to other areas of the body. Besides the pain, active trigger points can cause: muscle weakness, limited range of motions, numbness and tingling.

Latent trigger points exhibit pain only when they are compressed and they do not pass pain to other areas of your body. These points are considered as one of the main causes of stiff joints and limited range of motion of old age.

Trigger points may also link to fibromyalgia or myofascial pain syndromes. These points are very common and are also called as muscle knots.

You can get relief from chronic pain with prolotherapy.

It is a simple and natural technique, which can be used to stimulate the body to repair the painful area when the natural healing process needs a little assistance.

Prolotherapy is also called as sclerosant therapy.

Prolotherapy is the process of injecting painful ligaments and tendons by using sugar solutions, which are mainly used to stimulate the production of connective tissues and alleviating musculoskeletal pain.

Conditions that can be treated with prolotherapy:

Prolotherapy is used for treating various types of musculoskeletal pains such as:

• Arthritis
• Back pain
• Fibromyalgia
• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• Degenerated or herniated disks
• Sciatica
• Neck pain
• Unresolved whiplash injuries
• Chronic tendonitis
• Ligaments and cartilage
• TMJ (Temporomandibular joint syndrome)
• Partially torn tendons
• Sacroiliac problems

Patient who is suffering with chronic musculoskeletal pain in the spine or any extremity joint for at least three months is eligible to take prolotherapy.

Prolotherapy for different health conditions:

Prolotherapy for arthritis:

Pranic healing is an energy healing method based on the overall composition of your body.

Pranic healing is a revolutionary system of healing that works based on “prana” or vital energy system to prevent various ailments.

Prana means life force, which keeps your body alive and preserves the condition of good health.

Pranic healing has two basic principles, one is cleansing and the other is energizing.

If you are undergoing pranic healing, first you have to undergo cleansing phase or the unhealthy prana is detached from the infected chakra and the vital organs, and then the chakras are again energized with clean prana.

Basically, the healer grasps white prana from water, air, trees, food and ground and transforms it to you. The recovery time depends on the severity of your disease and also your ability to absorb the ki.

Two basic laws of pranic healing:

1. Law of self recovery

Usually your body will be able to heal itself at a certain rate. For example, if you got a wound or burn, your body can heal itself and restore within few days to a week. Even if you don’t use any medicine, your body can heal itself.

It is one of the latest alternative therapies that can be used by various people.

Polarity therapy includes energy bodywork with gentle or firm touch and rocking.

This therapy deals with the whole person, mentally, emotionally and physically by assisting the body to heal itself naturally. It removes blockages for health and well-being.

Polarity therapy works on many different levels such as it improves the digestive system, nervous system, cardiovascular system, musculoskeletal system, respiratory system, gynecological system and also emotional and mental health.

Benefits with polarity therapy:

Polarity therapy is beneficial for treating:

• Migraines
• Post natal care
• Premenstrual syndrom (PMS)
• Menopausal problems
• Allergies
• Digestive disorders like irritable bowel syndrome
• Stress
• Arthritis
• Back pain
• Fatigue (also chronic fatigue syndrome)

Working of polarity therapy:

The practitioners of polarity therapy believe that the body is a single magnetic energy field. This is completely a complementary science. It identifies that energy need to move from a positive pole to a negative one along a natural field.

Chakras are the wheel like structures which are centers of energy that will have the ability to assimilate, transmit and receive energy.

You have chakras from head to the root of the spine. There are seven chakras in your body: they are root chakra, sacral chakra, solar plexus chakra, heart chakra, throat chakra, brow chakra and crown chakra.

The entry gates for air are chakras. These chakras reside in your body and are responsible for your mental, spiritual and physical functions.

Reason for chakra balancing:

You have to balance your life force, otherwise energy is not positioned and you become faint. If your chakra balancing is not done, then stagnant energy cannot run in and out of your body. Hence, your body suffers from emotional and illness problems. You should also face common causes such as repression of emotion, stress, not having beliefs over truth, detachment from superior power, no exercise, unhealthful diet, exposure to toxicity etc because of imbalanced chakras.

Gerson therapy is an alternative treatment for cancer. Gerson therapy can also be called as gerson diet, gerson regime or gerson method.

Basically, gerson therapy includes a very specific diet with various nutritional supplements. The main aim of this therapy is removing the toxins from the body and strengthening your body’s immune system.

Most of the Gerson therapists consider that individuals with cancer have greater amounts of salt in their bodies when compared to the amount of potassium.

Basically, they believe that consuming greweiater amounts of fruits and vegetables will refurbish the right balance and cleanse your liver. This allows the liver to get rid the body of cancer cells.

But, there is no medical evidence about the effectiveness of this therapy in treating or curing the cancer.

Importance of gerson therapy:

Individuals use gerson therapy due to several reasons. The reasons to prefer gerson therapy are:

• It boosts your immune system
• It controls or cures your cancer
• If your disease is not cured even after the usage of conventional treatments
• You feel more controlled with the cancer and its treatment methods
• It increases oxygen in your blood

Chinese feng shui is an ancient philosophy of nature. This is a complex body of knowledge that exposes the methods to balance the energies of the surroundings to good health, wealth and good destiny for individuals inhabiting it.

Benefits of Chinese feng shui:

• Improving health conditions
• Preventing from accidents
• Getting married
• Improving the business in a better way
• Feeling more secure and safer throughout the life
• Protecting a couple from divorce
• Getting a good job or promotion
• Developing more harmonious family relationships
• Becoming pregnant or avoiding miscarriages
• Feeling free from job stress

Here are some Chinese feng shui products which assist in getting the above benefits:

Ruby crystal bracelet:

This bracelet acts as a vehicle for attaining and utilizing the talents of your mind. This bracelet encourages your psychic ability.

This clears your mind from thoughts and you will be more magnetized by using this crystal.

All the psychic abilities will be inspired and augmented with the use of these strengthening energies.

Also, this bracelet offers augmentation of the whole energy field of your body. This can be used for diagnostic healing and also for communicating with the spirits.

Enzyme therapy is a treatment method, which involves taking enzyme supplements from plants and animals to facilitate the digestive process, to improve your body’s ability to maintain balanced metabolism and also as an alternative cancer treatment.

Basically, enzymes are natural proteins, which stimulate and accelerate most of the biological reactions in your body.

For example, digestive enzymes, which are generated in the pancreas, break the ingested food and also help in the absorption of nutrients into the blood. Metabolic enzymes help in developing new cells and treat damaged cells in your blood, organs and tissues.

But, there is no correct scientific evidence about the effectiveness of enzyme supplements in treating the cancer. Also, it is not proved that whether enzyme therapy help in making the other cancer treatments work better or improve the quality of life in cancer patients.

Often, enzyme therapy is prescribed for patients who are suffering from the diseases like diabetes, cystic fibrosis, celiac disease and gaucher’s disease, which affect the digestive process .

You will notice many beneficial effects of enzyme therapy like:

• Purifying your blood
• Strengthening your immune system
• Improving mental capacity
• Cleansing the colon