Pain Management

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Helpful Tips for Managing and Even Eliminating Pain

Cindy Perlin, LCSW One of the worst emotions pain patients can feel is helplessness. In the face of severe pain, whether from low back pain, neck pain, fibromyalgia, migraine and tension headaches, or other chronic pain conditions, when the medications don’t work, don’t do enough or cause intolerable side effects, patients can feel helpless to ease their suffering. And helplessness leads to hopelessness and fear, which creates more pain. I know this because I have been there. After I was disabled by chronic back pain many years ago, I spent three years feeling helpless, hopeless and frightened about what was going on in my body. Then I began to discover self-care strategies and my life changed dramatically for the better. I’ve spent decades learning about simple home...

26 Natural Ways To Relieve Pain

By definition, a painkiller is any drug that helps fight pain. Unfortunately, most pain killers and other pharmaceuticals have damaging long-term effects on the body. This includes long-time use of over-the-counter pain relievers like aspirin-acetaminophen, ibuprofen, naproxen sodium, and other over-the-counter medications. Adverse reactions and side effects with long-time use more common than one would think. Many cases of renal diseases and failure are due to using over-the-counter pain relievers for extended periods. Most of the medications the body ingests have to filter through the kidneys and liver which are two of the main body organs. Because they work to filter toxins they are the two organs that are hit hard from medication overuse. This doesn't include low tolerance and allergic reactions to medications that can...

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Natural Remedies for Joint Pain

In this article, you'll learn and discover natural remedies for joint pain. Dab some birch, ginger, chamomile or nutmeg essential oil along with a carrier oil onto your sore joints. Try herbal remedies like willow bark extract, seed oils of evening primrose, borage, black currant seed, devil's claw, cat's claw, nettles, to counter joint inflammation. Apply a cold-warm compress and massage the affected part with medicated oils to relieve the achy joints. Even if you’re the kind of person who really takes care of their health (and god knows, many of us don’t!), you probably don’t pay much attention to your joints. But the complex machinery of our body depends on these tiny cogs to move, bend, and turn. We wouldn’t be able to do a million...

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8 Popular Alternative and Natural Medicine Treatments for Pain

What Is Pain? There are several definitions of pain. We all have to deal with pain at one time or another. Pain is relative to a person's perceptions and experiences of what pain means to them. Everyone has a different tolerance threshold to pain. What may be extreme pain to one person may not be to another. The International Association For The Study Of Pain (IASP) defines pain as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage". Pain is ultimately subjective to a person's perception of what they perceive it as. Their feeling as to what pain is; is based on their experiences of what they believe pain is or was as they experienced...

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6 Natural Remedies for Back Pain

Traditional medical methods will generally focus on addressing the structural problems in your back, but for many people, more of a versatile methodology will do a superior job at keeping the pain at shoreline indentation. So Medications be apt to have only short-term and uncertain benefits, so think out of the box and do something else that will cure you with some simple methods. Try an st Paul chiropractic (Chiropractic is a health care profession dedicated to the non-surgical treatment of disorders of the nervous system and/or musculoskeletal system. Generally, chiropractors maintain a unique focus on spinal manipulation and treatment of surrounding structures) near you. Chiropractic Treatment The core of chiropractic typically includes treatment of common lower back pain conditions through manual therapy. Spinal manipulation and manual...

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How Gua Sha Can Help With Pain

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Gua Sha, for those that haven’t heard of it before, is a form of Chinese medicine that involves the use of a sharp, straight-edged tool on the skin. Purpose of Using Gua Sha The use of this method for the treatment of joint pain and it can also be used to break down scar tissue on your skin. How to Use Gua Sha The process is also referred to as coining, spooning or scraping and the idea behind it is that the scraping of the skin will stimulate blood flow. This prevents stagnation of the blood which can lead to pain, fever, chills and various other uncomfortable sensations.  There are several different ways that this can be administered depending on what goals you are looking to achieve.   Back and Legs You can get it...

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