Eat Your Mosquito Repellant
Summer is great, just not the mosquitos that come with it. And if you have limited movement and dexterity, swatting these annoying blood suckers away can be a long lasting pain…or itch. Mosquitoes find their warm blooded victims by smell. Their sensory organs lead them to chemicals such as carbon dioxide and lactic acid that we exhale. While the most popular and effective bug repellant is DEET (which masks the chemical signals that mosquitos use to find their food sources), i
Nutrition for Neuropathic Pain
Neuropathic pain is unimaginable. It effects 29-79% of people with SCI and compares to no other pain. I learned this after a car accident 25 years ago. The collective pain of breaking my back, shattering my wrists, smashing my skull, puncturing my lungs and lacerating my internal organs didn’t rival the agony of the neuropathic pain I experienced from damaging the nerves in my spinal cord. My neuropathic pain is best described as an ice pick being stabbed into my bones every