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How to Get the Best Massage
How to get the best massage for ache and anxiety relief.
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Your Period Problems Solved: What’s Normal, What’s Not, and What to Do About It
Your period comes at the same time every month … except when it doesn’t. Find out what’s normal, what’s not, and what to do about it.
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Four Things You Didn’t Know About Natural Medicine
If natural medicine still sounds to alternative for you, here are four things that may help mainstream the concept for you.
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Slideshow: All the Right Moves to Avoid Back Pain
By Leslie Goldman
From Health magazine
Got lots of back pain? These easy everyday fixes will keep it at bay. View the slideshow.
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2008: The Year in Health
Celebrity
Britney’s Breakdown
Following months of questionable behavior, the pop princess was admitted to the psych ward after a custody standoff. See this and the rest of our top celebrity health stories here.
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Slideshow: How Reflexology Can Help Relieve Pain
By Susan Hall
From Health magazine
Feeling sluggish? Fighting off a cold? These simple reflexology moves from naturopathic physician Leah Sherman will help fix what ails you. View the slideshow.
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Slideshow: Sweet Uses for Sugar
By Susan Hall
From Health magazine
Finally! Permission to raid the sugar bowl—but not for your morning cereal or coffee. Learn how the sweet stuff naturally does wonders for dry skin, scrapes, etc. View the slideshow.
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Slideshow: Steam It Up!
By Susan Hall
From Health magazine
Need relief from the winter chill? Hitting a hot shower can help you kick colds to the curb, soothe pain, and more. View the slideshow.
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Girls Gotta Move: Your #1 Pain–Relieved
From Health magazine
No need to put up with achy runner’s knees. The most common complaint among runners—knee pain, or “runner’s knee”—is usually easy to treat. Here’s how to overcome it.
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Pain Cures for Women: New Relief for Headaches
There’s good news for women who suffer migraines—and most other types of headaches—which they do at twice the rate of men. Headaches are one area where the new focus on prevention can be seen in a host of treatment options, including Botox. Considered
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Arthritis Quiz Answers
Here are the correct answers.
1. Before you start a new exercise routine to reduce your joint pain, you should:
a. Join a gym
b. Find a workout partner
c. Talk to your doctor
d. Buy new sneakers
Answer: c. Talk to your doctor.
It is wise for anyone to talk
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All-Natural Healing: Glucosamine and Chondroitin
In 1997 the best seller The Arthritis Cure argued that two then-new supplements, glucosamine and chondroitin, could “cure” joint pain. For the record, neither glucosamine nor chondroitin cures arthritis. But they—especially glucosamine—do help
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Pain Cures for Women: How to be a Good Pain Patient
There’s no question that women aren’t always taken seriously when they ask for help with a condition that doesn’t have a clear-cut explanation. Just ask those with pelvic pain. Chronic pain is bad enough, but pain down there can be very difficult to
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Pain Cures for Women: Fighting the Fatigue
In the past year, some of the biggest headlines in pain management have been about fibromyalgia (chronic bodywide pain in joints, muscles, and tendons) and CFS, two conditions that strike women at as much as six times the rate of men. After years of failing
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Pain Cures for Women: Zooming in on Female Pain
We know that men don’t suffer menstrual pain, but that’s not the only fun they’re missing. “Research is uncovering very dramatic differences in how the genders experience pain,” says Mark Allen Young, a professor at New York College of Podiatric
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Pain Cures for Women: The Prevention Revolution
The old way of dealing with pain was to ‘wait until it hurts enough to treat it,’” says Carol A. Foster, MD, director of Valley Neurological Headache and Research Center in Phoenix and author of Migraine: Your Questions Answered. “But in the last few
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Alternative Pain Remedies
Thanks to a history of bad reactions, Louanne Weston was willing to do almost anything to avoid anesthesia. So when her doctor advised surgery to remove uterine fibroids that were causing cramps and heavy bleeding during her period, Weston went looking for
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