Does your family enjoy going out for a game of bowling? Never tried it, but thinking it might be fun to see your kids bowl? Try it for free this summer with two special free bowling programs available at area bowling centers. Bowling is a great fun physical activity that encourages social skills along with sportsmanship. It’s also a great indoor activity when the weather outside is not so nice! Check out these free kids events:
At AMF’s Summer Unplugged, parents can register their children to bowl up to two games per day for free, all summer long. A quick and easy registration process helps parents find the local bowling centers offering this deal along with a quick sign up to get the process started. If parents or older siblings want to join in the fun, there is the AMF Summer 17 Plus Pass. This discounted pass allows parents of kids registered for free bowling to register up to four other people over age 17 to bowl two games per day all summer long for $27.95.
At KidsBowlFree.com, parents can find their local bowling center and register their children to bowl free all summer long.
Select bowling centers and schools around the country are participating in the first ever Kids Bowl Free program. This program is designed by bowling centers to give back to the community and provide a safe, secure, and fun way for kids to spend time this summer.
Children whose age does not exceed a limit by a participating bowling center are eligible to register for 2 free games a day, all summer long, courtesy of the participating bowling centers along with the schools and organizations.
With the Kids Bowl Free program, each bowling alley has their own age restrictions and shoe policy…some charge for shoe rentals. There are also specific hours for bowling for free (usually all day.) There are also family pass programs that average at $25 for up to four other family members to bowl with the children who are registered to bowl free. To find your local bowling alley and register, check out their website, Kids Bowl Free.
Mama’s Carpal Tunnel Is Gone, Thanks To My Melanie, My Massage Therapist!!
Just a little funny we found online, it's what I feel like doing if only I didn't have RA!
Most of you know by now I’ve been seeing a massage therapist to relieve my Fibromyalgia Pain, Melanie Boyd from WellnessNaturallymb.com. She has been my muscle knot terminator. Seeking and destroying the muscles knots that try to dodge her by slipping around, but she stays right on top of them. She is teaching me about letting go of my tightness in my muscles. This tightness could be causing my numbness in my hands.
My neurologist convinced me, from my EMG findings that I had the symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome severely in my right wrist and mildly in my left wrist. He also explained to me that I had tendinitis in my left elbow. After hearing his finding from the EMG, I made my appointment with the surgeon who would perform the carpal tunnel surgery. Around the same time, I started seeing a new massage therapist who was able to press deep into my forearm muscles, releasing my nerves from the pressure they were under and I felt some numbness go away. At that point, I knew I was onto something, and I needed to see this through. I needed to see what she could do as far as help me relieve my numbness and pain from my carpal tunnel syndrome. By her deeply manipulating the tight muscles it released tight muscle pressing on these nerves that were causing the severe pain.
I actually canceled an appointment with my surgeon scheduled for last Monday. I’m blown away with the decrease in my Symptoms of Fibromyalgia that I’m not feeling thanks to Melanie. Each week, I feel more and more longer lasting results and less and less pain and numbness. Meaning, the muscles are starting to keep the new feeling of not being so tight. I’m relearning how to hold my hands and wrists properly for everything from steering my car to sleeping at night.
Now, I imagine I will need to continue my stretches and exercises for carpal tunnel as well as a maintenance therapeutic massage program of some sort (probably a monthly appointment) to keep my muscles from tightening back up once we finish the treatment. Melanie’s prices are reasonable…actually less money than some local spas, yet way better massages!
The Proper Way to Use a Keyboard, Don’t Get Carpal Tunnel!
Every week for the past few weeks I have been getting a deep tissue massage to help my muscles that feel like a solid piece of wood (symptoms of Fibromyalgia) loosen up. We work on a few areas that are usually causing the most Fibromyalgia pain and making my life really hard to navigate. After the massage, I see my chiropractor for an adjustment. Today, was the first time in all my chiropractor adjustments over the past several weeks that my elbows adjusted. Yup, my forearms are so tight that not only do I have a muscle clamping down on my nerve (carpal tunnel, pinched nerve) I also have recently been diagnosed with tendinitis in my elbow. With the slightest movement I would have a stabbing pain right near my elbow. Well, today the pain was so severe Melanie dug deep on the muscle around this tendinitis (which I also learned today is just inflammation) and I’m pain free from tendinitis as I type this. As for my carpal tunnel, my hand hasn’t gone numb as of yet either since I started typing this post, this just gives you an idea. My hand goes numb still, I’m just noticing that it can go a little longer with out flexing it or stretching it to take the numbness away. Normally I can’t type for longer than a few seconds due to the carpal tunnel. Here it comes now. Err! Break…be back soon.
My elbows and lower back are super tight right now, my neck used to be the most tight part of my body, but as Melanie & Dr.Heidi release my muscles in my neck, other parts of my body start screaming out for help. Deep massage and chiropractic together are transforming my muscles and helping me with my symptoms of Fibromyalgia. Oh it hurts like you know what during the massage, but I feel my muscles letting go, I literally feel it. I feel them relaxing and that freedom, which is so sad because its freedom from myself, from tight muscles, makes me feel lighter, looser, not as numb and not in nearly as much pain. A girl can get used to this, especially a girl in as much chronic pain as myself.
How Can You Get Help For Your Symptoms of Fibromyalgia? read on…
I have been getting deep tissue massages for most of my adulthood. I knew they always brought me relief, but not until I found a truly caring, kinda medical in a weird way, masseuse did I actually find help to take away a significant amount of the fibromyalgia pain. The pain I feel is real, I believe it was brought on by a traumatic, emotionally, physical event in my childhood. My body hurts all over…sometimes even when I’m hugged. First thing you deserve to try, because we all deserve a little less pain in our daily Fibromyalgia lives, find a masseuse like Melanie Boyd or just make an apt with Melanie for those of you close by Doylestown, which is in Bucks County PA. Also, your chiropractor needs to be holistic in the sense that she looks at you as a whole, she talks with your masseuses to figure out how best to treat you. Again if you are close by, make an appointment with Dr. Heidi…if not, ask people around you for professionals like I explain here.
Most importantly, you need to feel like these two professionals are your people…meaning they get you and you trust each other, because a big part of my healing is to allow people into my space, especially my space in my head. I have to trust them, so my body let’s its protector-self down enough so they can get in and work their magic. Meaning, I must trust them enough to close my eyes and say have at me, do whatever you need to do and I take my deep breaths and let it all go, let my body release the muscles, the emotions, the tension…its a physiological journey for me as well as a medical journey and I’m moving right along.
If you need to talk more, comment or email me if you need privacy. I believe in fate. I was meant to find Melanie and Dr. Heidi, I was meant to have a website like this to reach so many of you and I’m meant to help others. Its what makes me most happy. Good Luck to you all! Please post your stories or leave me feedback in the comment section
Since my twenties, I’ve been getting massages to relax my muscles. The massages always had an added bonus of helping my mind to deal with the chronic everyday pain I had which was my parting gift of being diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and Fibromyalgia (Fibro). My massages never really took away all the pain, but once I started doing both massage and chiropractic together, strategically working on various sections of my body with both Melanie Boyd of Wellness, Naturally! and Dr. Heidi Bencsik of Willow Wellness & Chiropractic Care of Doylestown, things started to feel a little better. Continue reading Does Massage & Chiropractic Help Your Fibromyalgia?
Mama Kicks It at B & R Fitness with Kickboxing with Julius King
So, this week I walked into B & R Fitness Center in Feasterville located in Bucks County PA for my appointment with my personal trainer, Julius King, from All Fitness Customized Training. They have an office located inside B & R Fitness Center. Every week I never know what Julius has planned for my training session, which keeps me interested and motivated to go. Each week it’s something new I’m learning for example, one week it was a fun workout learning racquetball, some weeks it’s working out my core with various weights and movements, other weeks it’s working the machines and now this week it was kickboxing, hands wrapped with tape and in punching gloves and all! Check Mama out in this video below. Although I took Karate Classes when I was a child, I had never done Kickboxing and must admit I was a little scared getting started. It was an intense workout and I felt empowered after it was over!
If you decide to check out either B & R Fitness Center or All Fitness Customized Training for yourself or your children, be sure to tell them Mama sent you.
More Information on All Fitness Customized Training
All Fitness Customized Training has locations in PA: Chester County, Main Line, Montgomery County, Delaware County, and Lower Bucks County. They have programs geared towards everyone including our kids starting at age 7. Whatever sport your child is into, they will customize a program to fit towards their weaknesses to prevent injury and of course to encourage success. I can’t wait till my daughter is old enough to reap the benefits of Julius’s training. I’m eager to instill the love and knowledge of fitness into her mind. I figure if I can raise her with the attitude that fitness and taking care of her health is essential and not an option, then she will think it’s just as important as any other part of her everyday life.
More Information on B & R Fitness Center in Bucks County PA
B & R Fitness Center is finishing up their renovations and the gym is looking better than ever! The children’s nursery is beautiful and as always my daughter and I love the staff. Her favorite part is all the social time she gets with the other children and the different toys that she doesn’t have at home. My favorite part is the loving atmosphere the staff give her and the glass front wall, both make me feel so safe when I drop my daughter off. If my daughter even thinks about having separation anxiety, the staff come right over and make her feel special and give me the nod to go ahead and leave for my workout. I love that they look out for her. Compared to other local gyms in Bucks or Montgomery County, B & R Fitness is the best bang for your buck with the least inexpensive fees and a huge selection of classes, machines and other amenities. They have super camps in the summer and awesome birthday party packages, especially the sports related themes!
All Fitness Customized Fitness Center offers Grindhouse Academy MMA tough love hands on kickboxing class at B & R Fitness Center in Feasterville, Bucks County Pa.
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