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TUTORIALS DIRECTORY — Advanced self-help guides for eight common pain problems.
ARTICLES DIRECTORY — All 640+ articles listed and categorized.
TIPS — Many handy ideas for self-treating pain & injury.
ABOUT — A general introduction to SaveYourself.ca
CONTACT ME — Get in touch. No voice menus! I answer my phone. Plus:
BOXED SETS — Save 50% on a “boxed” set of all SaveYourself.ca tutorials.
THE PAIN BIBLIOGRAPHY — An extensive, quirky, annotated repository of rehab science.
READING GUIDES
MICROBLOG ARCHIVES — Complete archives of all updates & announcements
FOR PATIENTS — Reading recommendations for specific pain problems.
FOR SKEPTICS — Do you take your critical thinking seriously? Me too.
FOR PROS — A guide to content of interest to doctors and therapists.

+ Pain Tips — Many pain-busting ideas, thick with links to other articles.
CUSTOMER CORNER
HELP! — Common questions answered.
HELP! For PDFs — Yep, an entire help page just for PDFs.
CONTACT ME — I answer customer service emails really quickly.
TESTIMONIALS — Many kind words from customers and readers.
READIN’, PRINTIN’ & SAVIN’ — Handy things you can do with your tutorials.
POLICIES — The small print. Security, privacy, refunds, etc.
THE TUTORIALS
ABOUT TUTORIALS — More information about all of the tutorials.
BOXED SETS — Save 50% on a “boxed” set of all SaveYourself.ca tutorials.
READIN’, PRINTIN’ & SAVIN’ — Handy things you can do with your tutorials.
BETTER EBOOKS — Why my tutorials are better than most ebooks.
WHY TUTORIALS COST — For a few visitors who can’t guess!
The tutorials are …
Save Yourself from Low Back Pain!
Save Yourself from Neck Pain!
Save Yourself from Plantar Fasciitis!
Save Yourself from Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome!
Save Yourself from Trigger Points & Myofascial Pain Syndrome
Save Yourself from IT Band Syndrome!
Save Yourself from Shin Splints!
Save Yourself from Muscle Strain!
HUNDREDS OF ARTICLES
ARTICLES DIRECTORY — Table of contents for all articles on the site
Top 5 most-visited articles …
#1 Do Epsom Salts Work?
#2 Does Arnica Cream Work for Pain?
#3 Massage Therapy for Neck Pain, Chest Pain, Arm Pain, and Upper Back Pain
#4 When To Worry About Shortness of Breath … and When Not To
#5 Tennis Ball Massage for Myofascial Pain Syndrome

MICROBLOG ARCHIVES — Complete archives of all updates & announcements
Last 5 microblog posts…
May 21 The anti-placebo SHOWPlacebo is belief-powered relief from symptoms, while nocebo is belief-powered symptoms, or “the placebo effect’s malevolent Mr. Hyde.” And: “The Internet has become a powerful…nocebo dosing machine.” Agreed: nocebo is a genuine hazard when writing about medical problems. Read more: www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elemen —SNIP— sick.html
May 21 Progressive mythology SHOWProgressive mythology: Dr. Harriet Hall’s review (plus some excellent reader comments) of Science Left Behind: Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left, Berezow & Campbell. A great book idea. This quote isn’t particularly representative of the book’s message, but it’s a very important idea (which I have written about):
Just because a published paper presents a statistically significant result does not mean it necessarily has a biologically meaningful effect.
Science Left Behind: Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left, Alex Berezow & Hank Campbell
www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/progressive-mythology
May 21 Blood injection treatment bombs a test SHOW
Utterly unsurprising: injecting your own blood doesn’t help tendinitis. Nice to have a decent new trial about this over-hyped therapy though.
The administration of two unguided peritendinous autologous blood injections one month apart, in addition to a standardised eccentric training programme, provides no additional benefit in the treatment of mid-portion Achilles tendinopathy.

Not many good treatment ideas work as well in practice as they do in theory. The null hypothesis is super reliable.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3629924
May 18 No more store trouble, but sheesh SHOWThursday and Friday’s trouble with my e-bookstore now seems to be cleared up, but it took a solid 48 hours. Fascinatingly, the slowness of the recovery may have been due to a major hacking incident several weeks ago, which affected basic internet infrastructure: that is, the “Domain Name System” (DNS) may be damaged and/or deliberately slowed down as a security measure. The theory is that corrected information about the location of my e-bookstore took much longer (2 days) to spread around the world than it would have before (2 hours). Here’s an interesting NY Times article about the hacking incident, with good diagrams: www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/03 —SNIP— olded.html
May 17 Service announcement for customers SHOWFor most of Thursday and into Friday morning, my online store has been flickering on & off like an old neon sign. Geeks are slaving to restore full service, and seem to have mostly succeded at this point. •mops cold sweat from brow• Part of the problem is that the internet “lost” the correct address for the store. That’s mostly fixed now, but there are still some computers out there that don’t know the correct address. Depending on where you live, you might see a weird generic page instead of my actual store. But the correct information is steadily spreading around the world (“Domain Name System (DNS) info propagation”), and I am fairly confident the worst is over. Naturally I’m readily available for any customer having trouble.
ABOUT SAVEYOURSELF.CA
ABOUT — A general introduction to SaveYourself.ca
BIO — Who am I? And am I qualified to write all this stuff? You be the judge.
SMARTER & FUNNIER — Publication standards for SaveYourself.ca.
THAT SALAMANDER — What’s with the salamander logo?
ALTERNATIVE TO WHAT? — Deep thoughts: why this is a science-friendly site.
SCIENCE-BASED — Why science-based instead of evidence-based?
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DISCLAIMER — The (inevitable) medical-legal disclaimer.
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