The coccyx is the area of our back that can break easily from backward falls, motorized accidents, etc, since it does not offer us balance. Connected to the coccyx or the smaller bone at the spine base is a fuse of bones that climb up the spine.

The bones connect with the sacrum joints at the lower back. The sacrum connects to the hipbone and forms into the pelvis joining the lower region and iliac bones.

The iliac bones are larger structures that connect to joints called sacroiliac. The sacroiliac is a …

Low back pain is a big problem in the United States. That’s what the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) found. The NCHS, a U.S. Government agency, conducted a health survey in 2009. According to the results, almost twenty-five percent of adults between eighteen and forty-four years old had low back pain.

Osteoporosis is a medical condition where the bone is caused to lose it’s density. As it develops, the bone starts to become porous and in the end not nearly as strong as it used to be and also very brittle.

Because of this, a person who suffers with it is much more likely to have bone fractures even with the slightest of injury.

Osteoporisis has earned the nickname ‘The Silent Disease’ because it does not cause any pain and develops very slowly.

Every bone in our body is made of protein, calcium and …

by Dee Braun

I am notoriously horrible at maintaining good nutrition practices. Oh, I KNOW them.

I know I should follow them, but there’s always something else to handle, some place to go, a phone call to answer, an email to respond to – the list goes on and on.

(And I didn’t even mention laundry, dishes, letting the dogs out, meetings, and oh, yeah, taking a bath!)

The thing is, I’m educated in both natural healing modalities and the principals of good nutrition. I’m mom to six children (my ‘baby’ just graduated!) and …

Searches on the internet for exercises for lower back pain continue to increase almost daily, it seems. It’s not hard to guess why. Lower back pain is one of the most common complaints seen in doctors’ offices today.

More work days are being missed every year due to lower back pain. The missed work days affect everyone, not just the employee that is out of work due to lower back pain and the company they work for.

Deadlines are missed resulting in longer wait times for products and services, …

All back pain is not sciatica; nor is all sciatica-like pain in the lower back, buttocks and legs caused by a herniated disc. Too much attention is paid to serious sounding names of diseases and most of us tend to associate even ‘similar’ symptoms to them.

Sciatica is popularly known to be a symptom of a disc problem. Tenderness, tingling, pins and needles, numbness or a burning sensation in a limb is commonly associated with sciatica. Even though some people are quick to jump to such conclusions, it is not …

Back pain sometimes merges from muscle spasms. Spasms largely start when one or the other nerve or muscle fibers cannot act with the other fiber. What takes place is the muscles assume involuntary reactions, such as atypical tightening of muscle. The action causes the muscles to restrain its contractions.

If muscle contractions are reserved by the fibers, nerves, etc, restrained additionally, accordingly the lack of contractions can cause excessive feebleness and/or paralysis. If the muscles and the nerve fibers are not joining correctly to perform action, i.e. the muscle fibers are …

INDIGO is the deep blue of night, blue before it edges into purple, the color of new blue jeans.

Indigo is a higher vibratory aspect of blue, it has all the attributes of blue plus an aura of deep mystery and of the unexpected, the unknown and the unknowable, the well of the mystic journey, indigo provides an entry to the astral world. Spirituality, clarity, detachment, relaxation, deep emptiness, travel into the self, presence, sedative, hypnotic, safe, anti stress, anesthetic, intuition, patience, integrity, psychic skills, ancient memories, secrets, sixth sense, deep …

Ectopic literally means out of place. In the case of an ectopic pregnancy the egg has implanted outside of the uterus. In the majority of the cases this happens in the fallopian tubes hence the reference to a tubal pregnancy. However, the egg can also implant in the abdomen, on the intestines, or on the ovary.

None of these organs can support a pregnancy in the same way that the uterus can. Many times the growing baby will rupture the organ and will cause severe bleeding …

The spine is made up of muscles, bones, and nerves… The spine is held together by disks, connective tissues, tendons, and ligaments. The elements combine to allow us to stand, yet tension is applied.

The lower back makes up the larger structure of bones and joints with the joints at the hips. Hip joints connect to the pelvis, joining with the elements listed above and with the vertebral column and finally connect to the sacrum. Larger bones join at the legs, which is where we get our support and strength to …