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Treatment of Low Back Pain Neck Pain Fibromyalgia

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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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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