M is for magnet…and how this blog keeps drawing you back!
But seriously, M is for:
Migraine: Absolutely incredibly horrible head pain that can be accompanied by nausea, and inability to tolerate the light and many other sensations. Some good links for migraine information are:

Help for Headaches and Migraine Pain
American Headache Society
ClusterHeadaches.com

Metastasis: People who have cancer may hear this word but have no clue what it means. If someone’s cancer has metastisized, the cancer cells have spread to other parts of the body.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI): This type of test gained popularity because it is an imaging test that does …read more

As part of my blogging and writing about pain for this blog and pregnancy for Womb Within, I get to review books and products that I can recommend (if I like them) and sometimes offer as give aways to my readers.
I have a book here called The Art of Body Maintenance: Winner’s Guide to Pain Relief, by Hal Blatman, MD, with art done by Brad Ekvall, BFA.
It’s a nice book with lots of detail and diagrams. The program also uses a rubber ball to help apply pressure to relieve chronic pain.
The author covers pain relief from fibromyalgia, myofascial pain …read more

There are a few repetitive stress injuries (RSIs) we hear about regularly, the two most common are tennis elbow and carpal tunnel syndrome. But, there are others. Here is a list of 4 others:
de Quervain’s tenosynovitis: a condition that causes pain between the wrist and the forearm, on the inside of the wrist just above the thumb. There’s some interesting information and great drawings to help describe the problem over at the Hand University.
Tendinosis: an accumulation of microscopic injuries to the tendon due to repetitive use. Tendinosis.org has some good information for you.
Myofascial pain syndrome: a chronic local musculoskeletal pain …read more