Category: Arthritis

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Chronic pain patients need services beyond just opioids: B.C. advocate

People who live with chronic pain need options beyond prescription opioids, and it’s up to the British Columbia government to provide more services such as physiotherapy, says the head of a group that supports...

FDA Warns About Dangers of Epidural Steroid Injections for Back Pain 0

FDA Warns About Dangers of Epidural Steroid Injections for Back Pain

The Food and Drug Administration has just issued what’s called a “Medwatch Alert” warning that Epidural steroid injections or “ESIs” for back and neck pain can be extremely dangerous. The alert says: “Injection of corticosteroids into...

Abuse on the rise of prescription medicine gabapentin, known as ‘Johnnys’ 0

Abuse on the rise of prescription medicine gabapentin, known as ‘Johnnys’

If you aren’t on this medication, chances are you know someone who is. It’s used to treat everything from pain to mood disorders and can be just what the doctor ordered for many. But...

Prince Did Not Die From Pain Pills — He Died From Severe Chronic Pain 0

Prince Did Not Die From Pain Pills — He Died From Severe Chronic Pain

The media can’t look to get its stories about Prince right. As the news feed overflows with stories with the word Prince and drug addiction in them, not many of them feature the word chronic pain. Multiple reports...

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Death by a thousand needles: The debilitating condition that leaves sensitive sufferers in excruciating pain

It is a chronic condition that renders sufferers so sensitive that even the lightest touch triggers waves of excruciating pain. Fibromyalgia is thought to affect up to a million Britons, commonly women over 40,...

Why You Might Have a Nerve Block For Chronic Pain 0

Why You Might Have a Nerve Block For Chronic Pain

If you’re experiencing chronic pain, a doctor may recommend that you have a nerve block, a temporary or permanent procedure that disrupts specific nerve activity. It can help diagnose or treat certain types of neuropathic pain,...

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Millions of Americans Have Chronic Sciatica Back Pain – An Ingredient To Reverse It!

Are you plagued by chronic lower back, buttock, or leg pain? Chances are it’s radiating from your sciatic nerves, which run from your lower back down to your legs. The symptoms can be frustrating,...

How the War on Medicines Is Hurting Chronic Pain Patients 0

How the War on Medicines Is Hurting Chronic Pain Patients

Despite the claims of some government agencies, research has shown that the overwhelming majority of addictions do not start with a prescription, and most opioid prescriptions do not cause addiction. When 58-year-old Zyp Czyk*...