Emergent Healing Blog

New Guidelines For Lower Back Pain “The new guidelines said that doctors should avoid prescribing opioid painkillers for relief of back pain and suggested that before patients try anti-inflammatories or muscle relaxants, they should try alternative therapies like exercise, acupuncture, massage therapy or yoga. Doctors should reassure their patients that they will get better no...

Gabe Mirkin M.D.- a sports medicine doctor coined the acronym R.I.C.E.. as a way to deal with any muscle/ligament related injury. However, he has since recanted his support for the regimen...

Western Medicine’s Caution to Opioids Dr. Anna Lembke’s take on the issue with over prescription of pain meds in the US. Some highlights from her interview discussing her book, Drug Dealer M.D., on NPR’s Fresh Air. Why we are in this predicament: “Starting in the 1980s, doctors started to be told that opioids were effective...

How to Diagnose Muscle Health For most of us, we don’t really think about issues without bodies until we can’t do something we once were able to, or if something starts to hurt. The downside of this is that by the time you notices issues, significant changes have already occurred. With muscles specifically, very often...

Did you know that calcium is very important to good muscle health? Calcium is not only an important mineral for healthy bones and teeth but also vital  to muscle contraction...