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Arm pain can be very agonizing, amid numerous sets of tender to excruciating conditions (100), increasingly resulting in permanent joint injury, malformation and loss of flexability. Inflammation of extremity joints is characteristic of the disorder. Chronic pain, disability and death are unfortunate results.

Joint inflammation has an predictable incidence of 1 to 2%. Prevalence increases with age, approaching 5% in women over age 55. The typical annual frequency in the United States is about 70 per 100,000 per annum. Rheumatoid arthritis occurs two to three times more in women than in men. Although rheumatoid arthritis may present at any age, patients most commonly are first affected in the third to sixth decades.

Joint inflammation, collectively affect nearly 46 million adults and 300,000 children in the U.S. It is not selective. The condition can happen to anyone. All joint inflammation conditions impact the musculoskeletal system and specifically the joints - where two or more bones meet.

Joint inflammation problems include:

• pain
• stiffness
• inflammation
• damage to joint cartilage (the tough, smooth tissue that covers the ends of the bones, enabling them to glide against one another) and surrounding structures.

In these conditions, joint inflammation can cause damage to virtually any bodily organ or system, including the heart, lungs, kidneys, blood vessels and skin. Pain-associated conditions principally influence the muscles and the bones.

Joint inflammation and related conditions are a major cause of disability in the U.S, costing more than $124 billion per year such as:

• lost wages
• production
• millions of people lose their health, physical abilities and independence.
• growing toll on on the health system as people age
• reduced coverage by employer’s insurance

Arm Joint Inflammation - Underlying Cause & Relief 

With graduating arm joint inflammation conditions, the majority of cases (90%) will be seen with cold sensations at the site of pain. 10% of cases are seen with hot to touch joints and related tissues. The primary appraoch in Chinese medicine is to counter the hot condition with cold methods to achieve a neutral state. This neutral zone relieves and corrects the tissues surrounding blockage in the channels. The opposite is true for cold conditions. Heat in the form of traditional Chinese herbs will alter the joint environment by establishing neutrality. Improved circulation and energy results in progressively removing toxicity (unflitered blood, de-oxygenated blood, unnatural tissue). The obstruction may be subtle to extreme in density but in all cases, to remove the barrier, herbal formulation needs to counter the underlying condition before the impediment can move on. Additionally, dietary recommendations would follow this same logic to support the corrective action.

Additional attention needs to be given to the general emotional state that may indirectly support the blockage. Particularly, the irrational beliefs that contribute to the person remaining in stressful states rather than relaxing as needed for recovery.Individuals focussed on their health understand their boundaries and support a restorative lifestyle.   

Arm Relief from Traditional Chinese Herbs   

This formula is a historical compound dating back over a thousand years. Since the initial primary formula has endured the long-term scrutiny there is no question regarding efficacy.

Benefits:

1. Alleviates pain in the fingers, up the arms through the neck
2. Restores natural feeling and muscle sensation
3. Revitalizes the extremities with emphasis on the upper limbs
4. Restores circulation, opening the capillaries supplying the absent nutrition
5. By invigorating the circulation, cold and phlegm in the upper extremities is moved out.
6. Harmonizes the transport of body fluid alleviating excess retained water.
7. Evacuates pathogenic fluid in the vessels supporting shoulders and neck
8. Eliminates joint inflammation complaints restoring normal movement

Joint Inflammation complaints in the upper extremities have been resolved, successfully, for millions of people over the last 300+ years in recorded Chinese history.

Though this pain formula improves the languid condition, Client’s condition is greatly supported when the infirmed change their life habits. The body’s natural state is to be healthy. The Creator has encoded within our body the miraculous capability of healing itself and we have a choice to be apart of the endeavor.

• Sleep (ideally): adults (10-6:30pm), adolescents (9:30-6:30pm), children 8:30-6:30pm
• Eating: Regular times, lower caloric content, adjusting as we get older depending on body type
• Exercise: Regular 3xs per week (1 hr.), adjusting rigor with age & health

When an individual can define their current constitution and then choose a strategy that balances their body type back to neutral and then achieve that center, the individual’s relief shines all over their being. Breath of life and a reasons to smile come back. Many of the alternative medicine strategies (Traditional Chinese Herbs) deserve further look for their simplicity yet effective results as is the case in this formula.  

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Safe, Pain Relief with Thought Field Therapy (TFT)

Wall Street Journal article says “Top Pain Scientist Fabricated Data in Studies, Hospital Says”

“The anesthesiologist allegedly faked data in 21 studies on the use of various painkillers, including Vioxx”.

Pain is the most common symptom for which seniors, age 65 and older, visit their doctor. The older adult population is rapidly increasing as the baby boomers age.

Experts in the United States, often consider pain a silent epidemic. In the U.S., an estimated 50 million people suffer from chronic pain caused by a disorder, disease or accident.  An additional 25 million people suffer acute pain resulting from surgery or accidents.

Loss of productivity due to pain continues to be a burden on companies and families. In a study done in 2000 it was reported that 36 million Americans missed work in the previous year due to pain and that 83 million indicated that pain affected their participation in various activities.¹

From these statistics it is clear that pain and its treatment is a major problem confronting our modern culture. A survey done by the American Pain Society² in 1999 revealed that more than 40% of people suffering moderate to severe pain were unable to find adequate pain relief.

Inadequate pain relief is one of the top reasons people experience a reduced quality of life.Increasing anxiety is yet another reason for diminishing quality of life.  The medications for both of these often interrelated issues, are usually toxic leading to many complications and side-effects, even death.  Individuals on blood thinners can’t even take most medications for physical pain and are left with little or no option for their pain relief. 

Thought Field Therapy (TFT) is a little-known, but highly effective, drug-free and non-invasive way to reduce or eliminate even chronic pain without the risk of medications.  TFT was discovered and developed by California clinical psychologist, Dr. Roger Callahan.  It works with nature’s healing system combining the acupressure meridian system and modern psychology.   

With the known risks of painkillers, the fraud appearing regularly in the studies of these painkillers, suggesting unknown risks, we need to help pain sufferers learn and use safer methods for managing pain.

³Researchers at Oxford University in the United Kingdom have found that the anxiety caused by the anticipation or experience of pain makes the perceived level of pain much worse.  This often leads to the addition of anxiety medications, which have their own set of risks and side-effects.  TFT effectively reduces or eliminates anticipatory anxiety in addition to reducing the pain. 

Length of relief from pain, per occurrence, is also important to the sufferer.  In a ⁴study, TFT provided longer relief than that experienced from pain medications.  (a free copy of this study is available on www.TFTRX.com).

⁵Statistically significant results were obtained with all problems and symptoms treated with TFT in a study at Kaiser Behavioral Health Services.  These problems  included anxiety, depression, alcohol abuse, anger, anxiety due to medical condition, bereavement, and chronic pain along with others.

“When I observe a number of suffering patients who did not respond to our usual treatment modalities, suddenly get better after TFT treatments are given, I don’t need a double-blind controlled study to tell me the value of Callahan Techniques® TFT.” 
James McKoy, MD, Chief, Pain Clinic, Chief, Rheumatology Service, Assistant Chief, Neuroscience Department    

Pain relief can be one of the most important means for improving the quality of life for thousands of people.Those suffering with chronic diseases such as arthritis, cancer, heart disease or fybromyalgia can use TFT in conjuction with their medications to reduce the risk associated with continued medication use and at the same time enhance their effect.

It makes economic and reasonable sense that we use a natural, risk-free process for pain relief and management, first, before we spend large sums of money for medications with known side-effects and unknown risks. 

To learn more about this safe alternative for pain management, visit www.TFTRX.com, Self-Help Products, TFT and Health Series.  The study mentioned above is available as a free download.

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1. Pain in America: A Research Report, Survey conducted for Merck by the Gallup Organization, 2000.
2. Chronic Pain in America: Roadblocks to Relief, survey conducted for the American Pain Society, The American Academy of Pain Medicine and Janssen Pharmaceutica,1999.
3. Plonghaus, A., Tracey, I., Gati, J. S., Clare, S., Menon, R. S., Matthews, P. M., & Rawlins, J. N. (1999). Dissociating pain from its anticipation in the human brain. Science, 284(5422), 1979-81.
4. Thought Field Therapy and Pain, by Robert Pasahow, PhD, in The Thought Field, Volume 11, Issue 2,  
5. Thought Field Therapy Clinical Applications: Utilization in an HMO in Behavioral Medicine and Behavioral Health Services, Kaiser Behavioral Health Services, Sakai, Caroline, et al., J Clinical

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