Category Archives: Joint Pain

Six Foods to Ditch to Beat Joint Pain

Joint PainBy Dana Schmidt October 18, 2018 4 Comments

A good friend was just diagnosed with osteoarthritis, at 38! Her doctor blamed her many years of playing soccer and running, and basically being an active, normal person, and told her that’s just how it is. I think that’s some bull, and 38 is way too young to have arthritis (and so is…

Massage Manages Pain Better Than Opiates

FB Posts, General Health, Joint PainBy Dana Schmidt April 14, 2018

Two studies from the VA (one from Portland!) found what we’ve suspected for a long time: opiates just don’t work for long-term pain control. And they can lead to serious addiction problems. In these studies, patients who received over-the-counter pain relief or massage reported reported the same or even less pain than those receiving opiates.…