By Geoff Depaula on
3/9/2010 11:33 AM
Tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis) and golfer's elbow (medial epicondylitis) are common terms used to describe elbow pain due to repetitive overuse of the elbow's extensor and flexor muscles. The name for these injuries originated as they appeared in a high proportion of tennis and golf players.
Today, tennis elbow is also referred to as carpenter's elbow, electrical line epicondylitis, and painter's elbow commonly seen in people who create repetitive movements with their arms in a work setting.
Similarly, golfer's elbow is caused from the overuse of the muscles, which pull the palm of the hand towards the arm eventually injuring the flexor muscles along the inner aspect of the elbow. Activities such as hammering, screw driver use, prolonged hand shaking and computer work contribute to this painful syndrome.
Western medicine views both lateral and medial epicondyle pain to be difficult to treat as the initial repetitiv
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By Geoff Depaula on
2/16/2010 12:44 PM
My experience using this technique has been an interesting combination of awe and curiosity. I know about the anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, and anti-viral effects of virgin coconut oil. So the practice of rinsing coconut oil in my mouth (swish in mouth for 5-15 minutes first thing in the morning & then spit out) to help to kill pathogens that create gingivitis, periodontal disease, and tooth decay, made sense to me. Eileen & I have found the preliminary results to be amazing! It really does whiten teeth and clean the mouth nicely.
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By Geoff Depaula on
2/4/2010 11:43 AM
Somewhere between 10-20% of couples having trouble achieving pregnancy are diagnosed with “unexplained infertility”, which means that there is no medical explanation for the problem, based on the standards and parameters by which fertility is tested from a Western medical perspective . For many women who are over 35, even if functional and hormonal tests are normal, the explanation is age (i.e. “eggs are too old or of poor quality”). Many couples are experiencing extreme frustration, heartbreak, and stress when trying to conceive, and many are subjected to lots of misinformation on the internet and in news blurbs.
Chinese Medicine (TCM) measures the ebbs and flows of a menstrual cycle by stricter standards than Western medicine. We notice more and more women are experiencing multi symptomatic, and irregular, cycles, who believe that this is normal.&
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By Geoff Depaula on
1/28/2010 1:23 PM
For chronic headaches the best treatment may be one of the oldest: acupuncture.
In 1998, the National Institutes of Health accepted acupuncture as a useful alternative treatment for headaches, but warned that there were not enough clinical trials to draw firm conclusions about its efficacy. Now a systematic review of studies through 2007 concludes that acupuncture provides greater relief than either medication or a placebo.
The report, which appears in the December issue of Anesthesia and Analgesia, reviewed 25 randomized controlled trials in adults that lasted more than four weeks. In seven trials comparing acupuncture with medication, researchers found that 62 percent of 479 patients had significant response to acupuncture, and only 45 percent to medicine.
Fourteen of the studies, with a total of 961 patients, compared acupuncture with a placebo, a treatment in which patients were led to believe they were getting acupuncture.
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By Geoff Depaula on
1/26/2010 1:31 PM
There are many people who just are not "in the loop" as to what acupuncture and Chinese Medicine can treat effectively. Here are just a few scientific studies that prove acupuncture is effective as it was thousands of years ago. Go figure! : )
Take a look at this link to see some of the science behind the power of Qi!
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By Geoff Depaula on
1/5/2010 12:20 PM
Here is a recent testimonial of a patient I finished a course of tratment with who had warts on his face, foot, and on almost all his fingertips. The previous treatment was just treating the "branch" (symptoms-warts) and not addressing the "root". We succeeded in ridding him of the warts and the painful burning & freezing treatments.
"Geoff DePaula succeeded in getting rid of my proliferating warts after a physician and dermatologist had failed. I worked with Geoff for only four months after over four years of burning, freezing and cutting warts had failed to solve the problem. The successful approach involved "starving" the warts via the antifungal protocol. Simply put, I stopped ingesting things that help warts thrive and starting eating things warts do not like. Two bonuses came with Geoff's approach: I lost 20 pounds and cut my bad cholesterol by 15 percent."
-BB
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By Geoff Depaula on
12/8/2009 1:59 PM
Did you ever stop to wonder why we have a “cold and flu season” — that is, why do we tend to get these illnesses in the cold, dark winter? And surely you have noticed that some people are naturally resistant to colds and flu even while others around them are coughing, hacking, and spreading the viruses like mad. As science now tells us, the answer, or at least part of it, lies in the sunshine vitamin known as vitamin D.
for full article see link..
http://www.womentowomen.com/inflammation/vitamind-swineflu.aspx
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