Lose the Pain

What is Fibromyalgia, Dr. Greg Fors, Author Why We Hurt, Explains to Steve Hefferon, Rehab Expert: In the second segment of the interview of Dr. Greg Fors, author of Why We Hurt: A Complete Physical & Spiritual Guide to Healing Your Chronic Pain, by Steve Hefferon we find out what exactly Fibromyalgia is and is not. First, it is not a disease but a syndrome and one must have pain in all four quadrants of the body, chronic pain of many descriptions, for at least 3 months to be diagnosed with Fibromyalgia.

This is a very confusing aspect of the syndrome and it requires patience is required to get through all the various explanations.

About Dr. Greg Fors:

Dr. Fors, author of Why We Hurt: A Complete Physical & Spiritual Guide to Healing Your Chronic Pain, is a 1982 graduate of Northwestern College of Chiropractic, a Board-certified Neurologist (IBCN); nationally certified in acupuncture and certified in Applied Herbal Sciences (NWHSU). He is a recognized expert in the field of chronic pain and brain health lecturing internationally to doctors on a variety of subjects including chronic pain disorders, autism, ADHD, depression, and neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's. His clinical experience includes many years of teaching and successfully treating a wide variety of complaints by utilizing alternative therapies.

He is the inventor of the FENIX Rehab System; an active therapy devise for myofascial trigger points, and founder of FENIX Recovery Enterprises (www. fenixstopspain.com) created to help individuals with chronic myofascial pain disorders. His highly acclaimed book "Why We Hurt" was released December 2007 and can be found at bookstores and libraries everywhere.

As the Chief Science Consultant and educator for BIOSPEC Nutritionals, Dr. Fors creates cutting edge nutraceutical formulas to treat a wide variety of conditions. He also creates their educational materials for doctors and patients to improve clinical outcomes for many common conditions such as: chronic pain disorders, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular health, autism, ADHD, and depression. Dr. Fors brings this expertise to the clinic to provide real healing for you and your family.

Dr. Fors specializes in providing in-depth evaluation, diagnosis and treatment services for those of all ages who suffer from complex chronic conditions; natural biomedical care for your entire family!

• Chronic Back & Neck Pain

• Headaches and TMJ syndrome

• Fibromyalgia & Myofascial Disorders

• Depression and Anxiety

• Autism and ADHD

• Mild Cognitive Impairment and Early Memory Loss

For more info go to http://painandbrainhealingcenter.com/

Introduction of Dr. Greg Fors, Author of Why We Hurt, by Steve Hefferon on The Fibromyalgia Fix: This is the first segment of a long and intense interview with Dr. Greg Fors, author of Why We Hurt: A Complete Physical & Spiritual Guide to Healing Your Chronic Pain and creator of the Fenix Rehab System, to talk about the devastating effects of Fibromyalgia and hot naturally reverse the pains of that condition.

Steve Hefferon notes that one of the problems with chronic illnesses like fibromyalgia is that all kinds of healing protocols are bandied about but no one has the full pictures and those with the pain are caught in the middle. He hopes to get some good info from Dr. Fors about helping people naturally and giving them hope for a less painful future.

About Dr. Greg Fors:

Dr. Fors, author of Why We Hurt: A Complete Physical & Spiritual Guide to Healing Your Chronic Pain, is a 1982 graduate of Northwestern College of Chiropractic, a Board-certified Neurologist (IBCN); nationally certified in acupuncture and certified in Applied Herbal Sciences (NWHSU). He is a recognized expert in the field of chronic pain and brain health lecturing internationally to doctors on a variety of subjects including chronic pain disorders, autism, ADHD, depression, and neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's. His clinical experience includes many years of teaching and successfully treating a wide variety of complaints by utilizing alternative therapies.

He is the inventor of the FENIX Rehab System; an active therapy devise for myofascial trigger points, and founder of FENIX Recovery Enterprises (www. fenixstopspain.com) created to help individuals with chronic myofascial pain disorders. His highly acclaimed book "Why We Hurt" was released December 2007 and can be found at bookstores and libraries everywhere.

As the Chief Science Consultant and educator for BIOSPEC Nutritionals, Dr. Fors creates cutting edge nutraceutical formulas to treat a wide variety of conditions. He also creates their educational materials for doctors and patients to improve clinical outcomes for many common conditions such as: chronic pain disorders, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular health, autism, ADHD, and depression. Dr. Fors brings this expertise to the clinic to provide real healing for you and your family.

Dr. Fors specializes in providing in-depth evaluation, diagnosis and treatment services for those of all ages who suffer from complex chronic conditions; natural biomedical care for your entire family!

• Chronic Back & Neck Pain

• Headaches and TMJ syndrome

• Fibromyalgia & Myofascial Disorders

• Depression and Anxiety

• Autism and ADHD

• Mild Cognitive Impairment and Early Memory Loss

For more info go to http://painandbrainhealingcenter.com/

Forget Your Condition & Focus on Fixing Underlying Causes of Your Pain in Body & Your Life:: This is the final segment of The Complete Back Pain Healing Formula with Jesse Cannone, author of The 7-Day Back Pain Cure, interviewing Steve Hefferon it is a pet talk from Jesse that is inspiring. He tells listeners to forget about their conditions, forget about their pain, focus on the underlying causes of the pain,, such as muscle imbalance, spinal compression, trigger points, emotional stress and nutritional imbalance,, and move forward to purpose and vigor to conquer all the physical problems.

These words can easily be translated into other areas of our lives, for forgetting the current situation and looking to fixing the problems causing our pain and suffering. This means relationships, work, family, friends, money and on and on and on.

Forget You Condition and Fix the Problems!

About Dr. Jesse Cannone:

Jesse is the co-founder and visionary CEO of The Healthy Back Institute®, the world-leading source of natural back pain solutions. His mission as a former back pain sufferer is to help others live pain free without surgery and pharmaceuticals.

As a personal trainer and post-rehabilitation specialist, Jesse’s hands-on work helped hundreds of clients with special conditions including stroke recovery, Parkinson’s and back pain. His success at helping his clients avoid back surgery led him to collaborate with massage therapist Steve Hefferon and a hand-selected board of medical advisors to create the world’s first self-assessment and self-treatment program for back pain and sciatica, the Lose the Back Pain® System.

Jesse’s earned certifications include Post-Rehabilitation Specialist, Specialist in Performance Nutrition, Advanced Level Fitness Trainer and Master Fitness Trainer. Yet that was only the start of his ongoing journey of discovery. Jesse’s passion for helping others find relief and improve their lives has led him to travel the world and interview dozens of world-renowned health experts in search of natural solutions for pain and improved health.

Today Jesse is recognized worldwide as an expert on back pain, health and fitness. His Live Pain Free® print publication along with his free Less Pain, More Life email newsletter are read by a combined 300,000 readers every month. Jesse has also been featured in dozens of magazines and newspapers, including Men’s Fitness, Balance, Natural Bodybuilding, Woman’s World, Entrepreneur, and The Washington Examiner. He often appears as a guest on a variety of radio and television programs, interviews and health seminars.

Over the past decade, Jesse has introduced millions of people in over 100 countries around the world to a better way of living pain free through improvements in mind, body and diet. His desire to help even more led him to write and publicly offer 1 MILLION free copies of his groundbreaking book, The 7-Day Back Pain Cure.

When he’s not hunting down new products and ways to eliminate pain, improve fitness and excel in every area of life from business to personal relationships, you’ll likely find Jesse mountain biking, practicing Muay Thai or enjoying quality time with his wife and eight children at his home near Austin, TX.

See more at: http://www.losethebackpain.com/medical-advisory-board/jesse-cannone/#sthash.AeyPy9sX.dpuf

Admit Emotional Baggage & Work on It, Fix Nutritional Imbalance for Good Energy & Health, Clear Mind: In a short segment Jesse Cannone has two simple messages; first admit you have emotional pain, unresolved issues, we all have them so don't hide from that. Tell yourself you will on them and try to be good to those around you and learn from the pain you are feeling.

Second, get your nutritional imbalance in balance; cut out the foods that cause inflammation in your digestive tract and eliminate dairy, wheat, sugar, soda, coffee and drinks lots of water and have a good diet for Mind, Body and Soul.

Remember it is always Mind, Body, Diet for Total Health.

About Dr. Jesse Cannone:

Jesse is the co-founder and visionary CEO of The Healthy Back Institute®, the world-leading source of natural back pain solutions. His mission as a former back pain sufferer is to help others live pain free without surgery and pharmaceuticals.

As a personal trainer and post-rehabilitation specialist, Jesse’s hands-on work helped hundreds of clients with special conditions including stroke recovery, Parkinson’s and back pain. His success at helping his clients avoid back surgery led him to collaborate with massage therapist Steve Hefferon and a hand-selected board of medical advisors to create the world’s first self-assessment and self-treatment program for back pain and sciatica, the Lose the Back Pain® System.

Jesse’s earned certifications include Post-Rehabilitation Specialist, Specialist in Performance Nutrition, Advanced Level Fitness Trainer and Master Fitness Trainer. Yet that was only the start of his ongoing journey of discovery. Jesse’s passion for helping others find relief and improve their lives has led him to travel the world and interview dozens of world-renowned health experts in search of natural solutions for pain and improved health.

Today Jesse is recognized worldwide as an expert on back pain, health and fitness. His Live Pain Free® print publication along with his free Less Pain, More Life email newsletter are read by a combined 300,000 readers every month. Jesse has also been featured in dozens of magazines and newspapers, including Men’s Fitness, Balance, Natural Bodybuilding, Woman’s World, Entrepreneur, and The Washington Examiner. He often appears as a guest on a variety of radio and television programs, interviews and health seminars.

Over the past decade, Jesse has introduced millions of people in over 100 countries around the world to a better way of living pain free through improvements in mind, body and diet. His desire to help even more led him to write and publicly offer 1 MILLION free copies of his groundbreaking book, The 7-Day Back Pain Cure.

When he’s not hunting down new products and ways to eliminate pain, improve fitness and excel in every area of life from business to personal relationships, you’ll likely find Jesse mountain biking, practicing Muay Thai or enjoying quality time with his wife and eight children at his home near Austin, TX.

See more at: http://www.losethebackpain.com/medical-advisory-board/jesse-cannone/#sthash.AeyPy9sX.dpuf

Trigger Point Self-Treatment System from Healthy Back Institute's Jesse Cannone & Steve Hefferon: In treating your own Trigger Points with the Healthy Back Institute's Trigger Point Self-Treatment System, warns Steve Hefferon, one must be care of multiplying trigger points. This can also happen in deep tissue massage, which can bring out long dormant trigger points or create new ones from working on others.

But if you can't afford to hire a trigger point specialist or just don't want to have someone else handling that, Jesse Cannone believes their system is very much up to the task of working your trigger points when you are in relaxed position, which is key to the process.

About Trigger Points:

Trigger points cause muscles and tissues to tighten and shorten. These hyper-irritated hardened masses cause so much pain and tenderness that you alter the way you move, sit or stand to instinctively protect yourself. By limiting the use of the painful muscle, the muscle begins to weaken.

Your altered patterns of movement put abnormal stress on your muscles, ligaments and joints. This leads to strength and flexibility imbalances in your muscles as well as postural dysfunctions throughout your body.

This "use-abuse-disuse" scenario creates more trigger points in other areas and a vicious cycle begins. Before you know it, you’ve developed clusters of active and latent trigger points. You’ve also given up doing the things you love to do because it simply hurts too much.

Here at the Healthy Back Institute, we've always known trigger points are a huge factor in creating pain and tenderness. However, there are very few qualified and trained trigger point therapists out there. And although there are some good self-treatment books available, most leave a lot for the patient to "figure out" on their own. Through her work with President Kennedy and many, many other back pain sufferers, Dr. Travell discovered that deep manual pressure applied to trigger points had a dramatic therapeutic effect by quickly eliminating pain.

The work she developed with her colleagues evolved into what is known today as Trigger Point Therapy. Research shows that sustained manual trigger point therapy is by far the most effective means of getting rid of chronic myofascial (muscle and tissue) pain.

But trotting off to a doctor, massage therapist, physical therapist, chiropractor or other clinician repeatedly to get rid of all your trigger points can get pretty expensive. Not to mention all the time those visits consume. And that’s if you are lucky enough to find a well-trained trigger point specialist to begin with.

That's why we are excited to offer you the Trigger Point Self-Treatment System. In fact, I can guarantee it's the most effective and easy to use self-care system around.

http://www.losethebackpain.com/triggerpiontselftreatment.html

Decompression Therapy, Inversion Therapy Tips Jesse Cannone & Steve Hefferon, Healthy Back Institute: The second therapy brought up by Jesse Cannone, founder of The Healthy Back Institute, to Steve Hefferon, Fitness Trainer and Certified Massage Therapist, is that of De-Compression Therapy, which usually involves Inversion Therapy. The Healthy Back Institute markets a number of terrific Inversion Tables and both Jesse and Steve endorse this form of therapy.

Jesse Cannone, author of Teh 7-Day Back Pain Cure, and Steve recommend starting slow with a 25% slope for a couple of week and then moved to 60% and, when ready, full inversion. Jesse points out that this form of back therapy has been going on for thousands of years and has helped untold thousands of patients on their road to recovery and onto fitness and an active lifestyle.

7 key benefits of inversion for the back pain sufferer

While relieving your back pain is your primary reason for considering inversion therapy, there are a number of additional benefits many people experience with a regular program of inversion. Here are 7 good reasons to use inversion therapy:

Maintains your height. Regularly inverting will help you avoid the “shrinkage” that naturally occurs as a result of gravity over a lifetime.

Improves circulation. When you’re inverted, your blood circulation is aided by gravity rather than having to work against it. In addition, with inversion, gravity helps the lymphatic system clear faster, easing the aches and pains of stiff muscles.

Relieves stress. Everyone knows that a full-body stretch is rejuvenating! An inversion table provides the same feeling of relaxation as a yoga class – with a lot less effort. Many people find that they sleep better with regular inversion therapy.

Heightens mental alertness. Any upside-down activity increases the supply of oxygen to the brain, which many experts believe helps maintain mental sharpness.

Increases flexibility and range of motion. With inversion, your joints stay healthy and supple, meaning you can remain as active as you were in your younger years.

Improves posture. The stretching that comes with reversing the force of gravity on your body helps you sit, stand, and move with more ease and grace.

Realigns the spine after workouts. Running and other aerobic activities inevitably compress your spine – often unevenly. One-sided activities such as golf or tennis often pull the spine out of alignment. During inversion, minor misalignments often correct themselves naturally.

See more at: http://www.losethebackpain.com/treatments/inversion-therapy/#sthash.rbCHWZjZ.dpuf

Muscle Balance Therapy from Jesse Cannone & Steve Hefferon of the Healthy Back Institute: The main cause of back and other muscle and nerve pain in the body is muscle imbalance and the system developed by Jesse Cannone and Steve Hefferon, of The Healthy Back Institute, is designed to bring balance back into the body through a series of exercise and therapies.

Jesse doesn't want people to believe they will be pain free, but they can have a level of fitness and activity that will make it easier to reduce the pain on a consistent basis. With no attempt to bring muscle balance to the body then one will continue to suffer with no end in sight or ability to fully participate in all that life has to offer.

About Dr. Jesse Cannone:

Jesse is the co-founder and visionary CEO of The Healthy Back Institute®, the world-leading source of natural back pain solutions. His mission as a former back pain sufferer is to help others live pain free without surgery and pharmaceuticals.

As a personal trainer and post-rehabilitation specialist, Jesse’s hands-on work helped hundreds of clients with special conditions including stroke recovery, Parkinson’s and back pain. His success at helping his clients avoid back surgery led him to collaborate with massage therapist Steve Hefferon and a hand-selected board of medical advisors to create the world’s first self-assessment and self-treatment program for back pain and sciatica, the Lose the Back Pain® System.

Jesse’s earned certifications include Post-Rehabilitation Specialist, Specialist in Performance Nutrition, Advanced Level Fitness Trainer and Master Fitness Trainer. Yet that was only the start of his ongoing journey of discovery. Jesse’s passion for helping others find relief and improve their lives has led him to travel the world and interview dozens of world-renowned health experts in search of natural solutions for pain and improved health.

Today Jesse is recognized worldwide as an expert on back pain, health and fitness. His Live Pain Free® print publication along with his free Less Pain, More Life email newsletter are read by a combined 300,000 readers every month. Jesse has also been featured in dozens of magazines and newspapers, including Men’s Fitness, Balance, Natural Bodybuilding, Woman’s World, Entrepreneur, and The Washington Examiner. He often appears as a guest on a variety of radio and television programs, interviews and health seminars.

Over the past decade, Jesse has introduced millions of people in over 100 countries around the world to a better way of living pain free through improvements in mind, body and diet. His desire to help even more led him to write and publicly offer 1 MILLION free copies of his groundbreaking book, The 7-Day Back Pain Cure.

When he’s not hunting down new products and ways to eliminate pain, improve fitness and excel in every area of life from business to personal relationships, you’ll likely find Jesse mountain biking, practicing Muay Thai or enjoying quality time with his wife and eight children at his home near Austin, TX.

See more at: http://www.losethebackpain.com/medical-advisory-board/jesse-cannone/#sthash.AeyPy9sX.dpuf

Good Sleep Vital for Healing Body-Mind & Productive Life, If Injury Prevents Try Natural Sleep Aids: The final relaxation segment in this long interview of Steve Hefferon by Jesse Cannone, author of The 7-Day Back Pain Cure, is about sleep and getting enough to heal injuries, recharge your mind to function properly and give the body a break from the stresses of the day.

Sleep, water, deep breathing and good food will help one relax and heal up from injuries, but then facing the root cause from the following list is key to getting back to a full active life; muscle imbalance, spinal compression, trigger points, negative or emotional stress, and nutritional imbalance.

About Dr. Jesse Cannone:

Jesse is the co-founder and visionary CEO of The Healthy Back Institute®, the world-leading source of natural back pain solutions. His mission as a former back pain sufferer is to help others live pain free without surgery and pharmaceuticals.

As a personal trainer and post-rehabilitation specialist, Jesse’s hands-on work helped hundreds of clients with special conditions including stroke recovery, Parkinson’s and back pain. His success at helping his clients avoid back surgery led him to collaborate with massage therapist Steve Hefferon and a hand-selected board of medical advisors to create the world’s first self-assessment and self-treatment program for back pain and sciatica, the Lose the Back Pain® System.

Jesse’s earned certifications include Post-Rehabilitation Specialist, Specialist in Performance Nutrition, Advanced Level Fitness Trainer and Master Fitness Trainer. Yet that was only the start of his ongoing journey of discovery. Jesse’s passion for helping others find relief and improve their lives has led him to travel the world and interview dozens of world-renowned health experts in search of natural solutions for pain and improved health.

Today Jesse is recognized worldwide as an expert on back pain, health and fitness. His Live Pain Free® print publication along with his free Less Pain, More Life email newsletter are read by a combined 300,000 readers every month. Jesse has also been featured in dozens of magazines and newspapers, including Men’s Fitness, Balance, Natural Bodybuilding, Woman’s World, Entrepreneur, and The Washington Examiner. He often appears as a guest on a variety of radio and television programs, interviews and health seminars.

Over the past decade, Jesse has introduced millions of people in over 100 countries around the world to a better way of living pain free through improvements in mind, body and diet. His desire to help even more led him to write and publicly offer 1 MILLION free copies of his groundbreaking book, The 7-Day Back Pain Cure.

When he’s not hunting down new products and ways to eliminate pain, improve fitness and excel in every area of life from business to personal relationships, you’ll likely find Jesse mountain biking, practicing Muay Thai or enjoying quality time with his wife and eight children at his home near Austin, TX.

See more at: http://www.losethebackpain.com/medical-advisory-board/jesse-cannone/#sthash.AeyPy9sX.dpuf

Meditation for Relaxation, Healing & Health, Tai Chi & Qigong for Steve Hefferon & Jesse Cannone:: One of final segments of the interview involves a common but often misunderstood way of relaxing, finding peace, healing your body and allowing your mind to find the center of your being and thus transcend this world and tap into spiritual energy.

Jesse asks Steve Hefferon to talk about two types of Tai Chi and Qigong, both which he now practices but which he looked down his note until recently. Like so many he thought was not a manly pursuit, but he was wrong and he has helped his mind, body and soul tremendously.

Steve Hefferong admitted he can't sit for very long so he tapped into a walking type of Qigong that works for him and the message is learn to adapt exercise, meditations, massages, sports, diet to your style, but again it always comes down to Mind, Body and Diet.

About Dr. Jesse Cannone:

Jesse is the co-founder and visionary CEO of The Healthy Back Institute®, the world-leading source of natural back pain solutions. His mission as a former back pain sufferer is to help others live pain free without surgery and pharmaceuticals.

As a personal trainer and post-rehabilitation specialist, Jesse’s hands-on work helped hundreds of clients with special conditions including stroke recovery, Parkinson’s and back pain. His success at helping his clients avoid back surgery led him to collaborate with massage therapist Steve Hefferon and a hand-selected board of medical advisors to create the world’s first self-assessment and self-treatment program for back pain and sciatica, the Lose the Back Pain® System.

Jesse’s earned certifications include Post-Rehabilitation Specialist, Specialist in Performance Nutrition, Advanced Level Fitness Trainer and Master Fitness Trainer. Yet that was only the start of his ongoing journey of discovery. Jesse’s passion for helping others find relief and improve their lives has led him to travel the world and interview dozens of world-renowned health experts in search of natural solutions for pain and improved health.

Today Jesse is recognized worldwide as an expert on back pain, health and fitness. His Live Pain Free® print publication along with his free Less Pain, More Life email newsletter are read by a combined 300,000 readers every month. Jesse has also been featured in dozens of magazines and newspapers, including Men’s Fitness, Balance, Natural Bodybuilding, Woman’s World, Entrepreneur, and The Washington Examiner. He often appears as a guest on a variety of radio and television programs, interviews and health seminars.

Over the past decade, Jesse has introduced millions of people in over 100 countries around the world to a better way of living pain free through improvements in mind, body and diet. His desire to help even more led him to write and publicly offer 1 MILLION free copies of his groundbreaking book, The 7-Day Back Pain Cure.

When he’s not hunting down new products and ways to eliminate pain, improve fitness and excel in every area of life from business to personal relationships, you’ll likely find Jesse mountain biking, practicing Muay Thai or enjoying quality time with his wife and eight children at his home near Austin, TX.

See more at: http://www.losethebackpain.com/medical-advisory-board/jesse-cannone/#sthash.AeyPy9sX.dpuf

Massage for Relaxation & Health, Careful on Deep Tissue, Massage Therapy Yields Health Benefits: Steve Hefferon is a Certified Massage Therapist so Jesse asks him about massage after going into the fact that he had a deep tissue massage and it opened up new trigger points to uncovered dormant trigger points that all had to worked out afterwards by himself. To this Hefferong said that is why he never does Trigger Point Massage, akin to Deep Tissue, and that really it is up to the client what they want.

To get deep tissue it is best to have someone who really knows your body and how to work it best, that way no problems will come up by activating a trigger point that needs additional attention.

About Steve Hefferon, Fitness Trainer, Post Rehabilitation Specialist & Certified Massage Therapist:

Steve Hefferon, CMT is a native of Washington, D.C. currently living and working in Germantown, Maryland. He holds a B.S. degree in Health/Fitness and an A.S. degree as a Physical Therapy Asst. Today he is both a Fitness Trainer and a Certified Massage Therapist and has combined his skills to become one of the top Post-Rehabilitation specialists.

Steve continues to see 500 clients a year mostly back pain suffers; Athletes and everyday people who have pain for which traditional treatments just do not work. He has also co-produced an instructional video regarding muscle imbalances and their role in back pain. Their goal is to help you identify the true root cause or your back pain and how to eliminate it. Steve has written many articles on back pain and has been published by hundreds of online and printed publications. Many of his articles can be found on this web site.

Steven P. Hefferon is a Certified Massage Therapist in the State of Maryland (MD#000039). (1997 to Present, approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education Approved Provider. (2002 to 2010) and has spent 6 years working as a physical therapy assistant (PTA 1994-2000).

He was a former Director of the National Capital Area Sports Massage Team (1998 to 2005), is a Professional member of the American Massage Therapy Association. (1997 to Present) and currently spends much of his day calling and corresponding with Lose the Back Pain clients from all over the world.

For more info go to http://www.losethebackpain.com/stevehefferon.html