New Chronic Pain Treatments Help the Whole Person
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New Chronic Pain Treatments Help the Whole Person

Women who live with chronic pain seek relief through all kinds of treatments, from acupuncture to physical therapy, medication to psychology. But in recent years, researchers have proven a multidisciplinary approach to chronic pain management can offer substantial and sustained pain relief. Even if you have explored multiple treatment modalities, you likely haven’t experienced a true multidisciplinary pain management program. That’s because they are few and far between. These complex team-driven programs require resources typically…

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Coping with Whole Body Pain
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Coping with Whole Body Pain

It’s bad enough to have a headache or backache. But when literally everything seems to hurt, you’re truly miserable. You can have trouble getting through simple daily activities and may find it hard to get a good night’s sleep. That can make the pain even worse. The good news is that whole-body pain relief is possible. The first step is finding out what is causing your pain. There are at least 20 different issues that can cause total…

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Why I’m Talking About My Chronic Pain and Why You Should Too
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Why I’m Talking About My Chronic Pain and Why You Should Too

As a physical therapist, my job is to assist my patients to move better, get stronger, and most often to reduce their pain. This is an important, gratifying, and yet often challenging profession. This is in part due to my own daily chronic pain that is primarily in my low back and tailbone. I have been in some level of pain constantly for the past ten years. Click Here to Visit the Store and find…

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Smart Steps for Healthy Feet
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Smart Steps for Healthy Feet

Are your feet something you think about only when they hurt? Simple steps can protect them from common problems, some of which are hard to get rid of. READ: The Ways to Treat Your Feet Right The first step is to wear shoes, such as water slip-ons, in moist environments like indoor swimming pools and communal showers at the gym. Damp areas allow bacteria and viruses to thrive, and walking barefoot makes you more susceptible…

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The 7 Most Common Types of Neck Injury
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The 7 Most Common Types of Neck Injury

If your car was rear-ended two days ago, and you wake up with neck pain, the cause is obvious: you’re likely suffering from whiplash. Other times the cause of your neck injury can be more mysterious. Sometimes you wake up with a “crick” in your neck and have no idea why. Understanding the cause of your neck pain is the first step in figuring out how to treat it. Here are some of the most…

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Your Body in Extreme Heat
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Your Body in Extreme Heat

Everyone who has survived a summer in the United States knows that temperatures can easily exceed 100 degrees. Natives may brush it off saying “at least it’s a dry heat,” but extreme heat actually has a negative impact on the body if you’re not careful. In fact, some studies have even linked heat to chronic pain conditions! When the body heats up due to exercise or external conditions, the natural response is to sweat so…

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Can Coffee Cause Arthritis?
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Can Coffee Cause Arthritis?

There are a number of risk factors associated with developing rheumatoid arthritis. You are more likely to develop the condition if you are a woman between the ages of 40 and 60, smoke, have a family history of rheumatoid arthritis, or are clinically obese. Of course, none of these factors guarantee a future diagnosis, but they do increase your risk of developing the condition. However, many patients with Chronicillness.co Site of the United States wonders…

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Nerve Block Technique Might Help Chronic Back Pain
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Nerve Block Technique Might Help Chronic Back Pain

A procedure that uses radio waves to treat chronic low back pain provided long-lasting relief to a small group of patients, researchers report. Called intradiscal biacuplasty (IDB), the procedure uses two water-cooled needles to blast radiofrequency energy at the nerve fibers within and around a spinal disc that’s begun to degenerate but has not ruptured, explained lead researcher Dr. Michael Gofeld. “Basically you’re destroying the nerve fibers, which will lead to the elimination of pain,”…

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9 Questions to Ask About Postsurgical Pain Management
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9 Questions to Ask About Postsurgical Pain Management

One of the best ways to ease anxiety about a major event, like surgery, is to plan ahead. Conversations about postsurgical pain management need to happen before your procedure, so you can focus on your recovery after surgery is complete. Here are 9 questions you should ask your attending health care professional before having surgery. What should I do before my surgery? Make sure you understand your health care provider’s instructions about eating and drinking.…

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Don’t Wake Mom Today
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Don’t Wake Mom Today

This Mother’s Day, take pity on the woman who cooks, cleans, shops, fusses and worries over you. Before you overwhelm her with breakfast in bed, let her sleep in. It’s no secret that women are chronically sleep deprived, and moms, especially working moms, are at the top of that list. According to a survey conducted by the National Sleep Foundation, almost three out of four American women between the ages of 30 and 60 don’t…

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