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9 OF THE BEST SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR HEALTH MAGAZINE FOR CHRISTMAS…

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It’s all about giving at this time of year and a lovely gift to give someone you know who may be in pain is a magazine subscription. There are lots of health magazines delivered through your door or read on your iPad. There are also lots of offers for magazine subscriptions at the moment. Here are some suggestions.

Natural Health Magazine – Subscription 6 months £21.99

I love it and look forward to a new one coming through the letterbox every month. It covers lots of complementary therapies and holistic living which I am very interested in as well as natural remedies, healthy eating, beauty and lots more.

Happiful Magazine which you can get free as an e-magazine or delivered for £5.99. Happiful Magazine wants to create a healthier, happier, and more sustainable society. Their aim is to provide informative, inspiring and topical stories about mental health and well-being. They want to break the stigma of mental health in our society and shine a light on the positivity and support that should be available for everyone, no matter their situation.

The award-winning Happiful magazine is packed with content to support positive mental health and wellbeing. From good news and real life stories to expert tips and stigma-smashing features. 

Subscribe for only £5.99 per month*

BackCare have a magazine called Talkback is a full-colour glossy magazine produced quarterly which includes the following editorial content:

  • Back product testing and the latest gadgets
  • Health and Excercise
  • Exercises and tips on preventing back pain
  • Patient-centred approaches to treatment
  • Research News
  • BackCare Professionals Section
  • Readers Letters
  • Interview with Back Pain Celebrities

If you join BackCare you get sent the magazine every four months or you can buy a subscription,

The Fibromyalgia Magazine deals with the areas that matter to their readers: This magazine has so much you won’t want to put it down from research, awareness raising, legal advice, benefits advice, news, support groups, treatment advice, pain management and much more. It is £43 –

This Listing is for 1 Year Subscription to your door (£3.58 per month)

They also offer a monthly digital subscription here. (£1.99 per month)

  • Medical Research News
  • Campaigning
  • Lobbying
  • Awareness Raising
  • Legal Advice
  • Benefits Advice
  • Worldwide news
  • News from local support groups and charities
  • Treatment Advice
  • Pharmaceutical News
  • Alternative Therapies
  • Pain Management
  • Online directory of all support groups and phone friends
  • A nationwide directory of FM resources
  • Opinion and Entertainment from our unrivalled team of columnists

Arthritis Inspire Magazine –  Inspire magazine is a quarterly members magazine for members packed with features, news, tips and information.

Inspire is a quarterly magazine packed with features, news, tips and information on how to live well with arthritis and related conditions.

Our Winter 2022 edition includes:

  • advice for setting achievable new year’s resolutions
  • keeping a pain diary
  • what’s new in arthritis research
  • festive recipes, reader’s top tips and much more.

https://www.versusarthritis.org/newsletter/inspire-magazine/

Another Arthritis Uk Magazine is Arthritis Digest which is £15 for six issues.

Arthritis Digest magazine is published six times a year and summarises the latest research in the arthritis arena making it essential reading for anyone affected by the painful condition.

Informative, upbeat and packed full of news and reviews about drugs, pain relief, superfoods, products and services, each issue has a star celebrity interview and true stories.

Arthritis Digest magazine informs readers and encourages them to learn, try new ideas and explore their options.

The ME Association produce a quarterly magazine, ME Essential, which required reading for any ME sufferer. Members of the ME Association receive a quarterly magazine – ME Essential – delivered straight to their door. It features exclusive interviews, keeps them up-to-date with medical and scientific developments and includes stories about how people cope with the disease.

Well Being Magazine print for 6 months £27.49 or digital for £7.97 for six months – it has articles, reviews, health and fitness, beauty, travel, food and drink. WellBeing is the World’s leading journal of natural health and living.  A refreshingly intelligent reading experience, WellBeing offers inspiration for a way of life that is authentic and soulful.  Reportage reviews the latest developments (or revived ancient practices) in natural living, and in-depth articles both challenge and inspire pragmatic action in the real-world balance of work, life, family and community.  WellBeing reaches an increasingly sophisticated audience of citizens of the global village. 

OM Yoga & Lifestyle Magazine – Print 6 months £24 Digital – 12 months for £25.99

Focusing on more than just yoga poses, this health and fitness magazine is perfect for any yogi looking for advice on how to keep their mind as flexible and relaxed as their body.

A subscription to OM Yoga & Lifestyle magazine will not only bring you exercise guides from certified yoga coaches, but it will also offer you healthy-eating advice from nutritional experts, as well as reviews of essential yoga kit.

The regular ‘Ask OM’ feature allows readers to get their yoga and lifestyle-related questions answered, while the ‘OM Spirit’ section focuses on topics ranging from how to get better sleep to how to minimise stress.

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WHY WE SHOULD ALL MAKE TIME FOR A MASSAGE…

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Research has revealed that massage has various health benefits. Massage treatments can be utilized to assist with dealing with things like nervousness and sorrow, sleep deprivation, and bad posture.

Aromatherapy massage in particular is very popular for pain release. Aromatherapy is a combination of two words “aroma” which means smell or fragrance, and ‘therapy” which means treatment for the body, mind, or social condition of a person, to assist a process where healing and change can take place. People who are suffering from problems such as arthritis, or fibromyalgia can benefit from the service of therapist to improve their quality of life.

Massage is one of the most important activities that help people to recuperate from injuries. Wounds are converted into scar tissues hampering the movement of the body. Over a period of time, the muscles acquire strength and the healing occurs at a faster rate.

It is a method of healing using very concentrated essential oils that are often highly aromatic and are extracted from plants. On a personal note, I do find that aromatherapy massage helps with pain relief be it only for a short period of time. Some say that it’s a placebo effect but I do genuinely feel in less pain and more calm. Let’s put it this way, if I could afford a massage on a weekly basis I would have it booked in a second but once a month is a help to me for the time being.

The massage generally refers to the use of hands or other tools to rub and knead muscles and joints of the body, often to relieve tension or pain. Other types of massage include Swedish, Sports, Deep Tissue, Trigger Point, Hot Stone or Tai massage.

According to Rest Less Research shows that 20-minute massages are enough to see positive results. This means that the majority of professional massages – most of which tend to be around 50 minutes long – provide more than enough pressure to the body to experience optimal benefits.

Massage has so many benefits from relieving stress, anxiety, depression and helping you sleep better. It can help with chronic fatigue, give pain relief, and can boost your immune system. It can also improve your posture and relieve headaches and can be done on yourself or by using a massage gun or having treatment. I find massaging acupressure points of great benefit to me although I can obviously not reach certain areas.

A great home massage tip is to use a tennis ball, which can help with back and other muscle pains.

For self-massage, they suggest that you lie on a mat with two tennis balls under your back, and roll up and down. The balls then massage the muscles and ligaments around your spine. This then stretches the muscles and surrounding tissue, increasing blood flow and nutrients to the area to help ease the pain.

For specific acupressure using your tennis ball lie on your back with your knees bent and your feet flat on the floor or sofa if you cannot get onto the floor. Your knees should be separated by about the width of your hips. Then raise your hips slightly and slide the tennis ball under one of them. Come back down and rest on the ball. You can treat both sides of your body and the sides of your hips.

There is a great book on how to use self-massage with a tennis ball by Angie Sage ‘Tennis Ball Self Massage : Effective Trigger Point Therapy to Relieve Your Muscle and Joint Pain, available on Amazon

This book offers you lots to learn from what is Tennis Ball Self-Massage, Trigger Point Therapy for Head and Neck, Massage to Relieve a Headache, and Massaging the Neck., and Tigger Point Therapy for your Back, Shoulder, Arm, Forearm, Hand, Hip, Thigh and Knee and much more.

Massage guns are very popular at the moment but for someone treating themselves and already in pain then the best type to buy is the lightest you can find otherwise it will just aggravate your pain.

A brilliant app that can help you find a therapist is

Source: Rest Less

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Lower Back Pain Relief For A Woman With Previous Spinal Fusion Surgery

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Dr. James Schofield

Lower Back Pain Relief

Recently I was able to help give lower back pain relief to a patient who came to my chiropractic office of 37 years. Jean, a 79-year-old woman, had been experiencing severe lower back pain for approximately one month. Her pain was growing worse, and she was at a point where she decided she had to gain pain relief. Jean’s case was complicated, and interesting, because she had undergone lower back spinal fusion surgery five years earlier. This article described lower back pain, spinal fusion surgery and how a multi-faceted chiropractic care approach gave this patient low back pain relief.

Jean’s case was like many I’ve seen in my three-plus decades of chiropractic practice. Over the course of her life, she injured her back multiple times. When she was younger, when experiencing episodes of lower back pain, she would cut back on her activities, rest and her…

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