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How to Relieve Hip & Knee Pain | Reflexology

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This is how to relieve hip and knee pain using foot reflexology techniques.

So, it's going to be on this outer lateral aspect of the foot. You can see there's kind of a protrusion here. This is the base of the fifth metatarsal. You can easily find that. That's one of your markers. Your other marker is this heel bone. This is a calcaneus. You're going to want to find the top. That's your other marker.

So, between here and here is this kind of little triangle area. Around here is housed the reflexes to the hips and a little bit to the knees. If you start to move above you'll start to go into the arm reflexes and other reflexes. We're going to be really concentrated in here. We're also going to do some work from out here. There are some sciatic and hip reflexes that also course through here.

For this place between here and here I'm going to use thumb walking. With thumb walking, again, you're just doing this walking and bending this joint here. You're going to come down here, you're going to get up a little bit, and then come back down. You're not going to pop out. You're going to go in with continued pressure. You're just going to go in again. And in again. There we go.

We could also do a little bit of that press and slide which Dr. Manzanares does. You press in, then you kind of slide into that area. Press, and then slide into the area. When you work this outer area you'll also use thumb walking, but you'll come across out through here.

So, you're supporting the foot with this hand. I'll lift it up so you can see it a little bit better. It's going to be all through here. So, you start here, and you just come down, and it can be really intense as well especially for women. So interact with your person and if they let you know that it's too deep just ease up a little bit. Come down through here, and come back, and then meet that point through here.

You could even just do a point pressure. You’d just press in. And you'll feel it. You might feel a little bit of a change in the tissue texture in that area which I feel here. You'll want to give that a little bit more pressure. When you let go just ease up.

Of course, you'll want to do both sides. If for some reason someone is experiencing hip pain you don't want to necessarily just do the side that they're experiencing it on. You want to do both. Just because the pain might be on the right side, for instance, doesn't necessarily mean that it's not coming from the other side.

In addition, you could add a little bit of lower back reflexes and lymphatic groin around here with your finger walking technique. Also the heel of the foot you can thumb walk. I like to thumb walk side, and it'll also give attention to that area. It's kind of doing the hips, the knees, the whole pelvic region, and then you can also do a little bit of the lower back through here with your thumb walking just so that you're giving attention to the whole area.

That's thumb walking, finger walking, and reflexology for the hip and knee area.

Can Marijuana Help Chronic Pain? | Marijuana

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Chronic pain's a big problem in our country, in the United States and around the world. It can lead to loss of functional work opportunities. It can lead to depression. It can, people take long acting, long term medicines that can potentially cause lethality if used in a high dose, could cause constipation, that cause itching, that cause hypogonadism. All of these problems are from the use of opioids which are derived from the opium poppy which are mainstays in the treatment of chronic pain.

The problems with chronic pain are that it's disabling and also that the treatments for it can also come with a whole host of very difficult severe to mild side effects. But it turns out that marijuana also is effective in numerous chronic pain syndromes, has been shown in actual clinical studies, controlled trials, especially nerve-type chronic pain syndromes where you have damage to a nerve or some type of situation going on where a nerve-type pain is going out of control and going on for more than three months. And it turns out that if you smoke cannabis, in clinical studies, compared to a placebo cannabis, you can get greater than 30 to 40 percent reduction of pain in a large percentage of those subjects compared to placebo. That's been shown over and over.

And then in the basic studies where they use animals and try to, like, develop models for pain, every model that you develop for pain in those models, cannabis or cannabinoids relieves pain. So it's really a natural or well-established pain relieving compound. In some cases, you might be able to reduce. If you use cannabis or marijuana in your pain treatment you can reduce the risk of other treatments that may be more toxic. In some cases you can go off of all other treatments. I've seen patients like that.

I've written up some review articles like in the Clinical Journal of Pain called Cannabinergic Pain Medicine as a whole field of subfield in pain itself relies on the system in the body that's called the cannabinoid system that actually helps to send pain signals up and down in the body and actually helps our natural pain, one of our natural pain suppressing systems. And also, these different compounds called cannabinoids in cannabis that have been shown to relieve pain. It's itself a whole field in pain.

So in clinical journals of pain it turns out that there is actually articles about the use of cannabinoids, which are the chemicals in cannabis, as its own treatment system for pain because the system in the body that the cannabinoids interact with is itself involved in our pain pathways.

So there is a huge interest in literature in the world of pain treatment which relies on all the science that we have accumulated with how cannabis works in the body.

How to Relieve Sciatica | Reflexology

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So we're going to start on this outer lateral aspect of the foot. They sciatic nerve reflex will come down here. I'm just going to show you drawing the whole line first. Pass through here, it'll continue on, on the heel of the foot. And then it'll actually wrap around from the heel of the foot. It'll actually then course up and then all the way back up here. So you can see it's actually, the reflexes are going all the way around and then back up again.

Someone experiencing pain will actually often experience a shooting down pain down the outer leg. Sometimes even in the inner leg. So you're going to want to use them walking. With them walking you're just using this joint going down and back up a little bit. You're going to go in with constant pressure. Just lift up a little bit and then back in again when you're doing the thumb walking.

So we'll start here and we're going to do it in one sweep. And we'll want to do that with both feet. So start here and you're just going to thumb walk the sciatic nerve reflex. It can be very intense if somebody either has a problem in that area or even someone that has tightness in their hips.

So you can see now we're coming down here. We're about to wrap around to the heel. So you go through the heel reflex. You're going to pass through now on the inner side. And from the inner side you can use finger walking. And I'll show you on the other foot too so you can see it from that angle. But I'm just continuing and finishing up there.

Now we'll do it on the other foot. So on this side we'll be here. So you could actually start this way too. Either side, it doesn't matter. You come down through here. It could be really tender so check in with your person. And if there is an area of tension just kind of lighten up your pressure. You could even stop there for a moment and just hold and then move on.

And I always like to, especially when doing a protocol for a certain area of the body, while we just did the sciatic nerve reflex, I'll also want to give attention to the lymphatic groin or Fallopian tube reflex for her across here using finger walking techniques. Do one at a time or both at a time. Sometimes it's a little bit easier if you come from the medial aspect inside and then come out. I'm using my middle finger here. And of course supporting the foot with my other hand and my thumb.

I'll always give a little extra attention to the lower back and here on both sides. And then I'll end with a little bit of angle traction. When ending any protocol it's nice to end with that solar plexus hold. That's coming up through here right below the ball of the foot, about midway through, your thumbs press in. Right. Center there, and then you just lean forward a bit. And that'll be your protocol for relief for sciatica using reflexology.

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So I'm gonna demonstrate how to form roll for lower back pain. Unfortunately many of us suffer from lower back pain. So the first thing you wanna do is get the roller lie it down like this. You're gonna apply pressure to one side of your lower back while supporting yourself with your elbow.

You wanna be careful here. A lot of us have herniated discs, bulging discs so you really want to take your time. You could raise your hips up just like this, that will take some of the tension and pressure off your lower back.

Explore the area, see whereabouts your tender. Do this for about two minutes. Focus on the points that you are feeling the most tension and pain.

You're gonna switch sides. Switching arms, rolling toward the very bottom of your lower back to the middle. When we're experiencing lower back pain most of the time it's not coming from our back. I tell my clients to do like a flush of the lower back if you are experiencing pain there but definitely you wanna hit your glutes.

A lot of the time our hips and our glutes are very tight and that's what's causing the lower back pain. So you wanna focus on, you could cross your ankle, one ankle across your bottom thigh and just focus on one side of your glute, glute med, glute max, toward the middle.

Doing this for about two minutes, switching legs. The reason why I'm crossing is because I'm also gonna get into the piriformis which is a smaller muscle that actually tightens up just from sitting so that's also getting deeper into your glute medius in the piriformis.

Always making sure alignment is priority so your hands should be directly under your shoulder. You also wanna make sure you're rolling your hips, your hip flexors if you're experiencing lower back pain because again, a lot of the time when our lower back is acting up it's not coming from the culprit, it's not coming from something in your lower back it's usually something around it.

So let's roll the hips. You're gonna get back on your hands and knees and hit the very top of your thigh bone area. It could almost feel like a dull pain. That's how I would describe what the hip flexor feels like when you roll it.

One to two minutes on side and then one to two minutes on the other. And that's how you form roll to improve lower back pain.