Pain Management

Integrative medicine approaches, such as acupuncture and yoga, have great potential in treating pain.

Good news for the ladies who need pain relief from menstrual cramps but don’t want to take pharmaceutical drugs like NSAIDs.

Whether for a hangover or a chronic condition, don't seek the treatment before getting informed.

The future of pain management in humans could eventually center less around what people take for their aches and pains and more around what they shine at them. Experimental new research at Stanford University's Bio-X laboratory has found that unconventional light therapy can be used to mitigate chronic pain without the need for pharmaceutical drugs, an amazing breakthrough that has the potential to completely change the way modern medicine deals with pain.

A Washington-based orthopedic surgeon who has developed a pain management system for sufferers of chronic back pain says it is a much better alternative to back surgeries which have low success rates.

People with chronic pain who aren't getting enough relief from medications may be able to ease their pain by smoking small amounts of marijuana, a new study suggests.

Tue Feb 6, 2007

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Sleeping with a neck support pillow and doing neck exercises can help ease chronic neck pain, Canadian researchers report.

"Our results indicate that subjects with chronic neck pain should be treated by health professionals trained to teach both exercises and the appropriate use of a neck support pillow during sleep; either strategy alone will not give the desired clinical benefit," Dr. Hugh A. Smythe at the University of Toronto, Ontario, and colleagues conclude.

Tue Feb 6, 2007

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Sleeping with a neck support pillow and doing neck exercises can help ease chronic neck pain, Canadian researchers report.

"Our results indicate that subjects with chronic neck pain should be treated by health professionals trained to teach both exercises and the appropriate use of a neck support pillow during sleep; either strategy alone will not give the desired clinical benefit," Dr. Hugh A. Smythe at the University of Toronto, Ontario, and colleagues conclude.

Fri Mar 10, 2006

By Karla Gale

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - An experimental "Pain Medication Appropriateness Scale" (PMAS) appears to be a useful tool for assessing the suitability of prescribing practices in nursing homes and for testing whether interventions to improve prescribing behavior are effective, investigators report.

By Timothy Schwaiger, MA, NMD

"The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm." - Samuel Johnson

Every person experiences some level of physical pain during his or her life. Pain not only has various causes, each person’s response to pain is unique.