Immediate Pain Relief Without Pain Pills

In the amount of time it takes to pop a pain pill and experience pain relief you can use a massage technique instead. It is called Effleurage. Simply apply a small amount of lotion to an area and ever so gently stroke that area in a circular motion. You can then vary the stroke by gradually getting deeper into the tissues and stroking in one direction, towards your heart. This sedates the nerve endings and puts the nerve endings to sleep. The result is instant pain relief. If you injured an area enough to cause swelling, then you want to keep the swelling for approximately a week, a full seven to ten days. Swelling is Nature's way of rushing healing lymph, fluid that delivers antioxidants, protein, vitamins and minerals to feed the affected area. You can gently stroke this area to relieve pain but DO NOT try to get rid of this essential healing fluid. After ten days one should begin the process of slowly removing this used up fluid that is now full of the toxic waste from the metabolism of it doing its job. If it is a limb then elevate this area above your heart. Alternate the use of heat and cold to gently squeeze out this fluid from the cells. You can go to my website: http://www.VickiAriattiMangum.com for the article on Hydrotherapy. You use heat for 5 minutes and then cold for 30 seconds alternating for approximately 30 minutes each 'session'. Non swollen areas of less trauma can also greatly benefit from superficial strokes and gentle heat. You can also gently tap on the affected area if there is bone loss. We have cells in our bones called Osteoblasts. Osteoblasts are cells within the bone that is responsible for building more bone tissue. Osteoblasts are activated by tapping on the broken bone or the joint where there is joint erosion due to bone grinding on bone or fractures. DO NOT tap on a broken bone before it is set in place. If you do then the bone will grow wrong in a short time and will have to be re-broken in order to set it properly. This will cause unnecessary pain and trauma to the affected area. If you have a fracture or broken bone that cannot be set by a cast but is properly aligned you can gently rub this area and use the tapping method to speed up healing. This is especially helpful on the ribs, hips,nose, toes and fingers. FYI: You can prevent scar tissue from forming after surgery by regular massaging the incision right after surgery as soon as the bandage can be taken off. Be sure your hands are clean and sanitized as you do not want to introduce germs to this vulnerable area. Massage brings needed oxygen and blood to the incision which helps erase away scar tissue before it forms. Massage therapy is truly a blessing for those with chronic pain and trauma.

LIFE WITH THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE IS GREAT

While in school I paid close attention to therapy that can benefit my husband. He lived with chronic pain for 30 years. He also lived on pain pills as part of his diet for approximately 20 years. NOT GOOD FOR THE LIVER or his general health. I am glad to announce that with ASEA and now regular therapeutic massage he has not been on pain meds for the past 2 years. He still has some pain from his permanent injuries, however, the dull aches are far more manageable. Five minutes in one spot and he is relaxed and chattering during his massage. Three or four years ago he tore one of his Bicep attachment clear off of the bone and was not able do do much of anything for more than 5 minutes without crying with sharp pain. After learning what do do with problem shoulders, I regularly work on his shoulder. Now he is tearing down barns by pulling, jerking, tugging and carrying heavy lumber with both arms for sometimes 8 - 10 hours a day. All I have to do is tweek the shoulder with a little massage and he is good to go for the next day. Oh how I love massage therapy. He feels like a new man. YEAH.

WOW, I am almost graduated from The Denver School of Massage Therapy. It has been 7 short months of mostly bliss. Anatomy tried to kick my butt but I hunkered down and got busy studying and cramming. I graduate in two weeks. AMAZING journey. After just 6 weeks into I was able to do some amazing maneuvers to help Bill with his back and hips. Now I have learned to structurally realign his postural imbalances which eases his joint pain and wear and tear on his joints. I am learning to realign tight muscles that pull on his joints that create this problem. AMAZING how just a little of applied knowledge will make such a big difference. Combining all of the modalities into a personalized session is magic. From time to time he will ask me to work my magic on him.

Accupressure and Muscle Testing

I am so excited about the classes I'm taking in Idaho. I am learning to muscle test and getting comfortable holding pressure points. Acupressure uses the same pressure points as Acupuncture without the needles.

My husband has had severe pain in his leg muscles for several years. He has lost muscle in both legs. When I got back from Idaho just recently I held all of his end points throughout his body. He experienced amazing relief from pain in his legs, back and hip. His headache went away. The only pain he had was in his shoulder where he tore the tendon loose from his shoulder bone.

It was amazing to watch him go from chronic pain to almost no pain in about 10 minutes. Prior to holding pressure points he was moaning about how miserable he was. He had work to do but had no motivation to drag his body outside to do it.

After we held pressure points, he sat on the bed for a minute or two and looked up at me with a smile. He made a big announcement about how he was going outside to crank up the chain saw and start cutting down more trees. He came back in after twisting the wrong way and re-injuring his hip. I muscle tested the points that we needed to hold specific for his hip. After holding points for that area, he got up and was ready to cut up more trees.

He felt so much better the rest of the day. It has been a little over a week now and the pain in his legs is still GONE. The pain in his hip and back (from an accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down for 4 years) was moderate. We are still working on his shoulder. It is amazing what acupressure will do. I am so grateful that I have the opportunity to learn this amazing technique for natural healing. I am having AMAZING results holding points for my friends.

Life Is More Fufilling With Half As Much Of Me

I have been so busy lately with my new lifestyle change that I have not posted in too long. Shame on me. I am in the process of finishing up writing my first book "Half As Much Of Me". It is amazing how the simple things in life are the most important. When I went back to Nature's basics I not only lost half of me but I am now able to do things that I did when I was a young girl. I can climb, jump, wiggle into tight spots, put my pants on while standing and I can get down on my knees and then just stand right up without crawling over to a hard surface to pull myself up.

I have a 3 year old great grand son, a 3 year old grand daughter and a newborn granddaughter. I have more energy than them. I can out work my adult grand children at the gym. I am 60 years old going on 10. Age is just a number.

ASEA

ASEA not only increases production of all 4 of the body’s natural anti-oxidants, but increases the effectiveness of SOD and Glutathione by at least 500%. ASEA is not about ‘raw ingredients’; it is about reactive signaling molecules (the only product coming from the new medical scientific frontier of Redox Signaling—Google Redox Signaling.) It is amazing!!

ASEA leaves the anti-oxidant juice wars and ingredients to the past and opens up a new paradigm of ‘empowering the body to heal itself.’

Nothing else on the planet is like it—it took 16 + years and over $29 million dollars for a team of medical researchers, engineers and scientists to break through the Redox Signaling science and recreate what was thought to be impossible—the reactive signaling molecules produced by the mitochondria while producing energy. These molecules are critical to the healing process of the body and to activating anti-oxidants and increasing inter-cellular communication…bottom line: it empowers the body to function at its optimum healthy level while slowing down the aging process.

There’s lots of substantiating research done; a research center in Park City will soon be releasing a double blind, placebo, cross over study by end of year proving that using ASEA increases athletic performance by at least an average of 12%!! That is unheard of!...it shows how the body responds to the NATIVE SUBSTANCE IN WHICH OUR CELLS ARE SURROUNDED AND HAVE INSIDE THEMSELVES—WHICH HAS THE EXACT REPLICATION OF THE REACTIVE MOLECULES PRODUCED BY THE MITOCHONDRIA. (the older we get, the more we need to replenish our level of these critical molecules)

Every Week My Husband Brags of Some New Improvement

My husband got up this morning so grateful for his new life. For the past 5 years he has been in the hospital 3 times, 2-3 days at a time. The doctors did not know how to treat him as the test results would come back as "nothing to treat". They sent him home with pain pills and told him to "take it easy". It has been less than two months that he spent 98% of his day holding down his recliner due to chronic pain. He has too many issues (listed in my other posts), or at least DID. He also knew that he was going to need a knee replacement this winter (2009). He knew this 2 1/2 years ago when he had his right knee replaced. He commented to me last week that the tendons and ligaments that hold his left knee in place feel tighter and stronger. He is not experiencing the pain in his left knee and his knee is staying in it's socket. He no longer has pain walking. This is AMAZING.

It seems like he has traded in his body for a newer model. ASEA is on our grocery list and we will never run out of this dietary supplement. Thank you ASEA for giving me back my husband.