Welcome To The Wellness Digest
I started The Wellness Digest in 2010 as a reference for clients, family, and friends. I wanted to help them understand their pain, how referred pain works, and why the place that hurts isn’t always the source of the problem. The site also gave them somewhere to turn for the questions that came up between appointments.
Over time, that small reference grew into something much larger and began reaching readers around the world. Today, I continue to draw on more than 1,800 hours of training, years of hands-on experience, and an ongoing habit of reading and learning to help make muscle pain a little easier to understand.
Rainey Lynd
Former massage therapist and the person behind The Wellness Digest.
What I Do
Though I am no longer a therapist, I still study muscles.
I read studies, trials, and publications for methods and treatments, both old and new, that might help people understand and manage muscle and soft-tissue pain.
The Wellness Digest brings that information so you can see why your pain is happening and home treatments that might help. The focus is on muscle and soft-tissue function because that's what I know.
Four Things That Changed How I Think About Pain
1. Where you feel the pain may not be the problem. An injury can change how you move, and that often affects other muscles and joints, sometimes long after the original injury has healed. Referred pain confuses the picture by causing pain somewhere other than the source.
2. Everything in the body is connected. A pulled muscle in the back of your thigh doesn't just hurt your thigh. It contributes to knee pain, hip pain, lower back stiffness, sometimes long after the original injury heals. Injury, pain, and dysfunction in one area often affect other areas of the body
3. Every body is different. What works for your friend or a stranger on the internet might not work for you. Your body handles stress, illness, injury, and life differently than anyone else's. This goes for standard medical care and alternative treatments alike.
4. You have to consider and treat the whole body. Finding and fixing the primary problem matters, but if you ignore the secondary symptoms, you're not restoring health; you're just putting a band-aid on part of the problem.
Sharing Information You May Not Know
I'm not a doctor. I'm not a health guru. I am not someone who attempts to treat through the Internet.
I'm someone who's spent a lot of time learning, working with, and observing how bodies move and why they hurt. I'm sharing what I've learned without the med speak so you can learn too.