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5 Painful Facts You Need to Know
By Robert Roy Britt, LiveScience Managing Editor
http://www.livescience.com/health/080725-pain-facts.html
5 Painful Facts You Need to Know
First off, let’s set the record straight: Pain is normal. About 75 million U.S. residents endure chronic or recurrent pain. Migraines plague 25 million of us. One in six suffer arthritis.
The global pain industry peddles more than $50 billion in drugs a [...]
A Doctor that Specializes in Pain Management is a Physiatrist!
A Physiatrist (Pain Management Doctor) is the specialist to help you with non-surgical “conservative” treatments to reduce pain. These Doctors use many injection therapies and do no “cure” pain, they only treat it. Do not confuse Physiatrist with a Psychiatrist or Psychologist who treat mental disorders – not pain.
5 Pain Treatment Methods for Spinal Related Pain
About these Spinal Pain Treatment Modalities
Treatments I list on this page are those I have not investigated throughly. I have not tried these treatments, some mainstream, some alternative. I list them only so that those of you who are visiting the site may have additional access to possible therapies. it’s hard to say I’ve [...]
Exercise – Exercise Therapies – Yoga – Tai Chi
General Exercise
The body is designed for movement and movement aids healing, just don’t over do it! You have to remember there is no blood flow to the discs so if you do not move, the spinal fluid does not move!
Your road to recovery will be much slower or non-existent without some form of gentle [...]
Heat and Cold Packs
Ice or Heating Pads bring temporary relief to some, but are not very effective in the treatment of chronic pain (at least not for me). Be sure to get advice on the correct use of these modalities from your Physician or Physical Therapist. Too much or too little may not be effective and may [...]
Occipital Nerve Blocks for Cervicogenic Headaches
Cervicogenic Headaches
The cervical spine and associated muscular support of the head interwoven with vessels and nerve supply in the head and upper extremities, compose a complex structure with many sites for the generation of pain. A reduction in the space in which nerves pa ss through or lie can result in pain and loss of [...]
Cryoanalgesia – Cryoneuroablation – Cryoneurolysis,
Basic Description of Cryoanalgesia
Cryoanalgesia is a pain-relieving technique which uses cold to treat nerve pain. It’s been around for centuries, and in its crudest form, uses ice to numb nerves. The more sophisticated, current type of cryoanalgesia uses a needle-like probe to deliver very, very cold sensation and thereby incapacitate nerves.
Detailed Description of Cryoanalgesia
Cryoneuroablation, also [...]
Faith and Spirituality
We Are All Spiritual Beings
Regardless of your religion at a molecular level we are all atoms, beings that are electro chemical. Faith, energy, our brains, mood, stress, all play a role in healing. When we are emotionally stable and emotionally healthy we feel better, and we can heal faster.
Practice your religion, follow your [...]
Hydro Therapy – Aqautic Therapy for Pain Relief and Exercise
Benefits of Hydro Therapy
Hydro Therapy is simply the use of warm water to help us relax or exercise or both. Hot Tubs, Swimming Pools, Therapy Pools, and even your Home Bathtub can serve as appropriate vehicles for this purpose. Today’s “Hot Tub” contains dozens of jets that can feel wonderful and allow us to release [...]
Acupuncture
Acupuncture Videos to Help You Understand How it Works
My Experience with Acupuncture
Works for some to help with pain. I tried Acupuncture with electrical therapy (At a Chiropractors Office” and it did nothing for me, but he person doing the work may not have been fully schooled as to the proper treatment.
I then found a true [...]
Prescription Medications – Drugs
The Scary Truth About Prescription Drugs
This should go without saying, but some people don’t really understand the purpose of Prescription Medications and their role in healing. Drugs treat symptoms, drugs do NOT CURE, only the body can cure. It’s really just that simple.
Drugs are foreign to the body, synthetic substances created to alleviate a symptom. [...]
Electrical Stimulation Thereapy & TENS Electrical Neural Stimulation
TENS, Transcutaneous Electrical Neural Stimulation
Based on the theory that the electrical stimulation pulses get to the central nervous system faster than the pain messages so you (in effect) feel the stimulation, but not the pain. It’s also believed that endorphins are released from the brain to help reduce your discomfort.
TENS is considered a method [...]
