1-2 Hours Extra Sleep Helps Kill PainAn amusing little article... I'd agree in principle that sleep can help things, but there's a couple of things painfully wrong here ( Read more... )

Guaranteed to get a squee out of anyone who's lived with chronic pain.
Sea Snail Toxin Promises Side-Effect Free Pain Relief. A year or two away from human trial, and it sounds like heaven in a bottle already. I'll have four thanks!

... the thing keeping you sane seven days a week is listed in a study as causing a 30% increase in risk of heart disease? Yay.

Ibuprofen increases heart risk

I'm chugging up to six of these a week. Just what I needed to read over my morning coffee.

So I spent all of Saturday morning walking around with a nasty headache and the nausea to go with it, knowing that I had a basketball game to play in the early arvo. So I had to dose myself up with ibuprofen and paracetamol at lunch in an attempt to feel any good.

Don't you love it when:

• The painkillers kick in just before you start stretching for ( Read more... )

So the back has been getting straighter and stronger of late. But of course, there's always a speed bump. The last couple of weeks, I've noticed my shins getting bad. Went to a podiatrist on the weekend, and you guessed it, shin splints for me ( Read more... )