Comments on Healthy You Challenge: How Exercise Can Control Chronic Pain

I've been working out since October and I find tha...

2008-03-06T23:07:09.009Z

I've been working out since October and I find that I don't need to take pain killers as often. On the days that I work out, I'm not in bed all day because it hurts too much to move. I still spend much of the day or two a week that I don't workout in day.

Regular exercise does wonders to reduce my chronic pain. It was very hard to work out at first and there are days that I hurt so much that I don't want to start but once I'm going I feel so much better and I feel great afterwards.

Yes I have also experience such benefits from exer...

2008-02-12T04:26:48.228Z

Yes I have also experience such benefits from exercise.
At first you think no ways it can be so simple and cheap solve the problem.

We make life more complicated than it needs to be sometimes.

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I agree 100%. I have suffered from chronic pain s...

2008-02-12T01:44:15.562Z

I agree 100%. I have suffered from chronic pain since I was in my teens. When ever I go though my 'phases' of working out it always improves dramatically.

This is so true. I suffer from chronic pain. I h...

2008-02-11T20:37:45.109Z

This is so true. I suffer from chronic pain. I have a favourite article that I will link to soon.

I agree... I've been working out and walking despi...

2008-02-11T19:59:06.550Z

I agree... I've been working out and walking despite being both asthmatic and having a severe joint injury. (I was in a car accident several years ago and I have 7 pieces of titanium holding my ankle together).

I never thought I would ever work out again, and going down stairs can be exquisite torture for me.

However, since I started walking and my workout routine, I've noticed substantial improvements in the amount of pain I'm in. I can measure this visibly by the amount of vicadain I HAVEN'T taken since January.

That article is so true and I've experienced this ...

2008-02-11T16:53:45.083Z

That article is so true and I've experienced this first hand just recently. My knees hurt constantly - it hurts to go up an down stairs or just to bend at the knee. But since I've started walking, the pain is reduced a little and I have a feeling that if I keep up with the walking, the pain will fully go away. My knees are not strong enough to support my weight. I'm very small framed and I should not be carrying around 279 lbs.

Very good article!

That was very informative! I've seen first hand h...

2008-02-11T08:28:06.034Z

That was very informative! I've seen first hand how increased oxygenation can accelate wound healing. When I was doing the Art of Living course, we did a lot of incredibly powerful breathing exercises and the one lady, who had only recently had an operation to her ankle experienced tingling at her wound site, during and afer each exercise. She healed amazingly well.

Sadly, in the Western world, we are chronically dehydrated and oxygen deprived.