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Just few months ago I experienced this knee pain walking down stairs, at first I didn’t mind it then it go away. But after few weeks there it goes again, most especially after waking up in the morning and go down from the bedroom.
I got curious what’s causing this knee pain walking down stairs, then it occurred to me that I’m doing a lot of sports lately.  In one whole week I would at least play some ping pong (table tennis), play basketball and finally badminton.  Each game would really make me feel tired because I enjoyed a lot while playing with my friends.

I did a little research and found some facts that are worth sharing to other people that maybe experiencing this same pain.  Well here it goes, first you need to analyze where the pain is coming from is it inside, outside, front or back of the knee?

In my case it’s in the front of the knee, according to write-ups there might be a number of reasons why there’s knee pain.  If you’re experiencing inside or outside of the knee it might be cause by some tissue damage or injury.  If it’s at the back of the knee it might be cause by fluid build-up that is also known as “Baker’s Cysts”.

Actually there’s many other number of things that you need to watch out or observe why you experience this. Are there any swelling at your knees, any grinding or popping sound when standing from sitting, are you doing prolonged activities like running, walking or standing for a long period of time, accidents or slips, any of this might contribute and lead to knee pain.

(Wow didn’t expect that, that’s a lot.)

There are different treatments for different pains and different causes, going back to my case its more like cause by prolonged activity of standing and running. I’m no expert and not a doctor. I’m just sharing what works for me.  Some would definitely say go see a doctor and have a check-up, have some diet if your too heavy etc.  But since I didn’t fall under that, I simply tried to rest from sports for few weeks, massage my knee every night before going to sleep and after coming back to my usual activity I use some tight knee support.

Its works for me but it might not work for you. Always remember if the pain persists, go see a doctor. For me wearing the knee support is like magic no more knee pain walking down stairs.

I just found mine, there are hundreds or thousands of articles out there claiming to have sinusitis remedies but I guess you need to find what works for you. I’m a type of person that don’t easily get infected from cold or cough virus from other people; people you work with everyday, your classmate or even the people you see every day travelling to work or school.

But last week my daughter catch some colds and she even had a slight fever because of it. Our main suspect why she had it is because of too much chocolates and ice cream, the following day when she woke-up in the morning she said her throat is hurting. Colds and fever followed, some sinusitis remedies for children are usually visiting the paediatrician or just stay at home, take some rest, drink a lot of fluids, vitamin C and some cough and cold syrup. For our daughter it’s the latter. After few days, she is almost ok, just minor cold left and we are keeping her away from sweets and ice cream.

On the other hand, I might not easily catch cough and colds from other people, but when my daughter gets it there’s a high probability that I will catch it also. I don’t know why or I’m the only one like this. I have a theory that maybe our immune system is similar, so whatever virus she gets the virus becomes a bit resistant to our immune system. By the time it gets to me, the virus totally takes over. This is the my nth time for cough and cold then there’s sore eyes, but I guess I’ll write about it next time.

Anyway, back to picking the fast relief from the long list of sinusitis remedies for my case, the symptoms are a bit different I have a minor body ache and a sinusitis headache and this makes it worst. I already felt a sore throat on a Friday and my eyes become a bit teary. I didn’t do anything about it just continue drinking water and take some vitamin C, on the next day when I woke-up I already have a minor cold which is still ok but the thing that is killing me is having sinusitis headache. I already took some cold medicine but it didn’t take away the pain. Usually Saturday is jogging day for us, so we continue our schedule and I run about 2 km. After this I was totally wasted and the pain is still there. On Sunday was planning for a quite day and try to get some rest but for some reason I need to do some housekeeping and this make me feel wasted again with a headache.

But during the night my wife surprisingly gave me a full body massage to sooth my aching body and head, almost instantly I had a relief and fell asleep immediately. On the next day my sinusitis headache and body ache are gone and only the cold remains. So far I’m still continuing the Vitamin C. plus fluids, Calamansi or Lime juice, medicine and and plenty of sleep and hopefully within the week I’ll feel better.

Hope you can add this also on your list of sinusitis remedies, this might increase your recovery rate. But a word of caution I’m just an ordinary person just like everybody and not a doctor. Things that work for me might not work for you.

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This is our nth time to publish / re-publish a code in our site.

Hopefully this time they will find it in our rss feed.

YBPPP79TWF4A moving the code on top.  Hi everyone we’re trying to add our blog at technorati hopefully will be approve so we can reach more readers around the world.  The process of claiming now is to post the short code in our blog by publishing it, in our case it is the characters that you see in the tittle and first line of this post.

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I’m sure many of you including me are not much familiar with this sensual kind of massage. Esalen which is a classic therapeutic kind of massage developed in the 1960’s era at Esalen Institute of California Coast. How does this work and how sensual does Esalen massage is?

Esalen Massage focuses more on deep details of the muscle tissues of the body. It aims to stabilize the right stretch, energy and mobilize the joints and even melts the muscle tension to achieve a perfect flow of harmony in the body. Esalen practitioners usually perform a slow rhythm of massage following a tai chi kind of approach. This kind of massage was also inspired by the rhythmic and sweeping movement of the waves of the sea that is why it is somehow sensual.

Only licensed esalen therapists are allowed to do the massage but if you’re just at home and wanted to try this to your loved one, I guess you can do the basic techniques of it. (Just be cautious and careful folks!)   First, the person needs to lay down facing the pillow (or you can do it without the pillow!) you can also lay the person either in a comfortable mattress or just on the bed (not too soft). Usually, the person needs to be nude when performing Esalen massage but if they don’t want to, they can cover up those areas that they don’t want to be exposed. For warm up, slowly touch and gently massage the back of the person with your two hands to build a connection with him/her. Then apply some essential oil on your hands and rub it (you can choose your own type of oil), gently stroke every part of the body using your palm, knuckles, thumbs and fingertips on different directed movements.

Contact is the most essential pillar of Esalen Massage that’s why you need to establish that certain type of connection with the person you are giving it. The personal touch helps you to get into deep communication with that person and that is I guess a wonderful bonding with your partner.

Have you ever experienced trying scalp massage? Well, for those of you who haven’t yet wanting to give your scalp a healthy and beneficial treatment, this is the right time for you to give it at least try weather on a spa or just at home.

What is scalp massage? What are its benefits on our body and who needs it the most? This type of  massage is a therapeutic form of a relaxing treatment benefiting our head especially providing relief from stress, headaches, migraines or any sinus conditions. Though no strong evidence has been proven yet, some researches, says that scalp massage helps promote hair growth and prevents or stops hair loss. Since one of the causes of thinning hair, hair fall or hair loss is probably be stress related, it was concluded that it could possibly treat or lessen the hair problem.

Personally, I’ve tried having scalp massage once. Three months ago, I’ve noticed that my hair was starting to get thinner due to severe hair fall. As I’ve done lots of research about how to solve my hair problem, I ended up trying to have a scalp treatment which was of course, having scalp massage. The session was so invigorating, relaxing and soothing. I almost fell asleep during the treatment but yeah, it was terrific. As what the therapist told me, massaging your scalp increases blood flow and gives good circulation to the hair follicles that may help promote strong hair strands for hair growth, thick and a well nourished hair. (There’s no harm in trying!)

Everyone can try scalp massage even at home. Applying essential oils on our scalp is one of the most important things to consider. Choosing the right aroma and the perfect kind depends on your own preference. You can try mixing oils too like eucalyptus and coconut oil for example. Some research says that it helps promote new growth for the hair. You can also use jojoba due to its non-greasy kind and castor oil for its natural essence that promotes hair re-growth as well.
Love your scalp before it’s too late folks!

Although we’ve already tackled things and stuffs about foot massage basics and its therapeutic benefits to us on our previous posts, we’ve come up to another topic that will surely make you think which is which.  Foot Reflexology vs Foot Spa? How can we differentiate these two and can we personally practice this at home? What type of foot massage do we need? Let’s do the basic first fellas.

We all know that foot reflexology is an alternative medicine method that of course, includes applying pressure to our feet with the help of the thumbs, fingers and the entire palm of the hands. Each point on our feet corresponds to a specific and particular part of the body. So mainly, the purpose of foot reflexology is to heal and help improve whatever illness a person has inside the whole body. The basic reflexology areas includes head and neck which are connected to the toes including toe bones and joints, the Spine is said to be connected to in-between of the toe fingers and the ball of the foot, Chest area which is connected under the toes, Waist Line which is in the center part of the foot (the thin, waist-kinda part of it.. come on, try to look at it folks! , and the pelvic area which is connected in the bottom of our feet. Before performing this kind of massage to a person, first thing to consider is to ask and consult his/her doctor if they are allowed to have reflexology for this could increase the blood circulation of the body. Foot reflexology could be done by anyone with proper knowledge on how to practice it.

On the other hand, I may not be explaining much about foot Spa because I think I’ve written a whole bunch of things about this kind of massage before but okay, I’ll discuss the difference of this from foot reflexology. (Since that’s the title of the post ha!) So, Foot Spa quite differs much from foot reflexology because this kind of foot relaxation focuses on beautifying, pampering and reviving the tired feet of ours. Though, it could also benefit soothing and relaxing condition of the feet, Foot Spa cleans, smoothens and exfoliates dirty skin cells by applying sea salt and any kind of pepper mint cream to the feet. It also involves a bit of foot massaging after putting moisturizing lotion to it for a more soft and smooth feeling.

Foot Spa and Foot Reflexology is way different from each other. The meaning, the procedure and the effects are incomparable. We may sometimes be confused on what to try but it’s always safe to know first what is really important to us before doing anything on our body.

Although I’ve said it before on my previous posts that I really do love facial massage, another personal favorite of mine is a fantastic and relaxing Foot Massage. Everyday walking and standing a lot tortures our feet so much that’s why a once or twice a week massage on our poor and tired feet would definitely soothe and make a big difference changing our mood (the bad ones hah!)Here are some basic foot massage technique that you could practice at home yourself or to a loved one.

These are just basic steps folks; you could also find some alternatives if ever you can’t find some of the materials needed. (Try to experiment a bitJ) First thing to do is to prepare a soaking bath. If you have a foot soaking machine (foot spa machine), pour right amount of warm water into it or if you don’t have those, try to use a basin (the one that you use on your laundry J), that would be a great alternative. You could add scented oil if you want to or a slice of lime would be a better natural alternative. Rest the feet for about 5-10 minutes time and before drying up, scrub a bit of the lime to extract the toxins on your feet. Then dry up using a warm and clean towel.

Prepare a mini table or something that could support the surface of your legs while sitting. You could also use bean bags or something that you feel comfortable enough to lay. The other foot should be remained wrapped on a warm towel to keep it relaxed and warm.  Prepare the lotion or any massage oils you have and rub it until you feel the warmth of it on your hands. Start applying it on the entire feet up to the ankles. Try to start up the foot massage on a gentle squeeze on the toes then coming to the middle (the other hand should be holding up the heel part for support) and then right through the ankles. Just repeat the whole massaging and squeezing up and down then on to the other feet. You can finish the whole foot massage by squeezing the toes gently and repeat it with a pressure and end it again with gentle strokes.

So there you go folks, easy and basic foot massage for those who don’t have time visiting the spa and just wants to stay at home relaxing their precious feet on a weekend (preferably yeah!)

One of my personal favorite types of massage will definitely be the Facial Massage. Not only it rejuvenates the skin and improves the blood circulation particularly on our face, but I guess it is also beneficial and most important for those who loves to sing (I do love to sing folks!) how and why? What are the wonders of facial massage?

Okay, so as what I mentioned earlier, facial massage does wonders on our skin. As we all know, there are lots of nerves on our face that if massaged correctly, it could give us a pleasurable soothing feeling. It is true that this kind of massage could improve negative mood into a more pleasant feeling.  It is also studied that it reduces psychological distress and anxiety. A once a month massage In my own opinion is a must especially for those who wanted to get rid of their annoying wrinkles partying all over the face (seriously!) a gentle and smooth massage with the use of a facial moisturizing cream would help minimize the presence of wrinkles as the skin is somehow being hydrated and helps to relax the drawn and tight muscles of the face. On other wonders, of course, it could also solve (as personal experience is concerned fellas!) nasal congestions as a proper massage is being performed, it relieves allergy buildups like puffiness and headaches. (Of course, still with the help of the right prescribed medicine from your doctor).

On the other hand, one of the wonders of facial massage would benefit the singers out there or for those who are doing voice lessons.  You can personally do this kind of massage to help restore vocal health and loosen up your voice. Most singers do this massage before or during rehearsals and even before they perform on stage as part of their warm up exercise.

Below is a basic facial massage demo I’ve seen on youtube. If you can’t afford to visit the spa during your free time, you can ask a friend or a loved one to try doing it for you. Simple yet relieving facial massage to a healthy you! Happy facial fellas!

At last have finally solve the issue on our blog, I think this is related to the last update of wordpress we made together with the updates of the plugins.  Are you having the same problem? All of our sub-pages are not working, but the admin section and main page are still ok, weird right?

Anyway we have tried to deactivate all plugins, and check all pages if working.  But of no avail still the same error, “500 Internal error…”  was thinking of downloading a backup copy of the db, restore in our local computer and install wordpress 3.4 but at the same time was thinking.. ah this is too troublesome and time consuming.

So instead i tried one more time to try to check the setting, first thing that came across my mind was maybe the permalinks was not working? hmmm so i change my permalinks to default setting and tried to check the individual pages. Aha it was working!!! So I tried to put back the permalinks to my setting, and tried again.  We’ll this time it worked! Most probably something got corrupted in our permalinks and needs to be recreated.

Lesson? Don’ immediately update all your plugins and wordpress unless you are very very confident and very sure.  Be sure that you do a backup first before you do some updates so worst scenario  if you restore everything is still there.

This is unedited post, just wrote everything in a jeepy..hope my English still sounds ok (not the “Oh my English” one, lol).

Hope you don’t encounter this type of problem!

cheers!