These conditions can all be end result of muscle spasms! While it seems incredible that a simple thing like a spasm can cause so much trouble, it¹s easy to understand when you take a close look at body. There are 600 muscles in body and 206 bones. The only reason that bones move is because muscles pull on them (unless you have a traumatic accident), and therein lies problem. The muscle originates at a stationary point in body, it then crosses over a joint and inserts onto another bone. When a muscle contracts it pulls insertion point toward origination point, and joint bends. For example, biceps and triceps are responsible for bending elbow. If your arm is straight out and you contract biceps muscle elbow begins to bend. At same time, in order for arm to completely bend, triceps muscle must fully stretch. If you then want to straighten your arm again triceps must contract and biceps must fully stretch. If you try this, slowly, with your own arm you will understand concept easily.

If, for example, triceps muscle is contracted and shortened by a spasm, you will only be able to bend your arm as far as triceps will stretch. Many people then think that they have a problem with elbow, while problem is actually less serious than it appears.

We teach our clients an analogy that is very helpful in understanding root of muscle spasm situation. Imagine a young child standing between a deep well filled with water, and a big rain barrel. The child has an eyedropper and is going from well to rain barrel putting tiny amounts on water into barrel, many times back and forth for hours every day. Then, about 40 years later, rain barrel overflows. The child (who is now an adult) says "I don¹t understand, I¹ve been doing this for years and it¹s never done this before!" Likewise, people say to us: "I¹ve been doing this (exercise, etc.) for years and it never hurt before, I must be getting old" No you¹re not getting old, you just never emptied your "rain barrel" and now its overflowed!

The body is amazing. We have mechanisms for healing that are so incredible that science still hasn¹t been able to fully understand how they work. Our bodies mutate very slowly, but life is now changing rapidly. It wasn¹t such a long time ago, before electricity was discovered, that people would work very hard all day and then rest when sun went down, going to bed early. In past, when people would rest at end of day, body would begin its process of removing lactic acid that is natural by-product of muscle action. This is body¹s method of emptying rain barrel. But, when electricity increased hours in our days, we began to stretch ourselves by working out in gyms, staying on computer until late at night, and even doing fun things like dancing until wee hours. Our bodies weren¹t able to keep up with increased lactic acid production, and we began to pile up spasms one on top of other. This continued day after day, and our muscles started getting tighter and tighter.

Prevention starts with Vitamins along with liquid or powdered minerals! Without proper amounts you are opening yourself up to free radicals! Reason why was noted as far back as 1936… See US Congress messaged at http://www.envirodocs.com/1936_excerpt.htm

Free radicals careen around wildly like unguided missiles, damaging everything they touch and causing a chain reaction of trauma. It is now well established that free radicals are a critical factor in many health problems, including hardening of arteries, which can lead to conditions involving heart, eyes and bone/joint health (Knight 1995) & (Cures, Robert Willix, M.D. 1994)

A most interesting fact about free radicals is that they cause same reactions within cells that occur during exposure to radiation, and results of these reactions are indistinguishable from those of natural aging (Riley 1994). Consequently, it has been suggested that certain compounds known to protect against radiation damage also would be useful antioxidants and may even be beneficial for increasing life span.

Free radicals are even suspect to be an important mechanism of aging; more of them that are running amok, greater vulnerability of healthy cells. However, there's a way to take back your power, up odds in your favor and defeat this deadly force.

Free radicals are not always harmful; they're used by immune system to destroy many invading microorganisms. In bone and joint problems body's own antibodies begin to attack joints, causing cellular damage, as they are unleashed by body upon itself (Barber 1994).

But free radicals tend to react with cellular DNA, often causing DNA strand to actually break. There is also strong evidence that FREE RADICALS may not only initiate DNA mutations, but also encourage damaged cells to multiply.