Tag: Chronic & Acute Pain

Pain in the Neck: 9 Simple, Effective Ways to Take Care of Your Cervical Spine, Avoid Dizziness and Strokes

Dizziness, vision deterioration, and brain strokes can all be attributed to cervical spine problems. Dr. Wu Guobin, director of Xinyitang Chinese Medical Clinic, shares with us nine methods to improve the misalignment of the cervical spine to help us reverse cervical spondylosis. Cervical Spine Problems Can Cause Vision Deterioration and Brain Strokes First of all,…


Pain Killers Causing More Pain?

Your 12-year-old daughter says her stomach hurts. Your 50-something spouse complains of a headache. Then there’s your own joint pain: the dull ache just below your elbow, perhaps from spending too much time typing on a computer keyboard, and your sore hips from the slow jogging you’ve been doing to keep in shape. “Pain is…


Can Your Diet Ease Chronic Pain?

The idiom, “you are what you eat,” is well accepted when it comes to increasing or decreasing your risk for heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, obesity, and some types of cancer. But it may come as a surprise that research increasingly suggests that what you put on your plate can either increase or decrease pain…


Chronic Illness? Try These Cutting-Edge Healing Strategies

Conventional medicine has its limits when it comes to resolving common chronic health challenges like high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and neurological and autoimmune diseases. These little-known advanced therapies go to the root cause of illness and stimulate your body to heal itself. Download Interview Transcript Download my FREE Podcast Video Link Story at-a-glance Chronic…


Top 9 Health Benefits of Epsom Salt

Imagine slipping into a warm bath at the end of a long day. Does it feel great already? Here are nine health benefits you can enjoy while relaxing in bathwater infused with these salts. 1. Promotes Relaxation Perhaps the most popular reason people love an Epsom salt bath is that it is relaxing. But how does…


Psychological Interventions + Physical Therapy Ease Chronic Low Back Pain

For people with chronic, nonspecific low back pain, psychological interventions are most effective when delivered in conjunction with physical therapy care (mainly structured exercise), according to a review published online March 30 in The BMJ. Emma Kwan-Yee Ho, from University of Sydney, and colleagues conducted a systematic literature review to identify randomized controlled trials comparing psychological…


Posture: Slouching Toward Back Pain

How long has it been since someone told you to “sit up straight”? Kids get advice on their posture all the time, but some adults could definitely use a reminder. People who slouch throughout the day can be vulnerable to a wide variety of problems, including back pain. If your back aches, you just might…


Headache Pain: What to Do When Your Head Hurts

Most of us get headaches from time to time. Some are mild. Others cause throbbing pain. They can last for minutes or days. There are many types of headaches. How you treat yours depends on which kind you have. Headaches might arise because of another medical condition, such as swollen sinuses or head injury. In…


Why Chronic Pain Is Almost Always Misdiagnosed

We usually think of it as a bad thing, but pain helps keep us from harm. In fact, without pain, our lives would be cut short. In the book “Pain: The Gift that Nobody Wants,” authors Philip Yancey and Dr. Paul Brand write about a congenital disease that causes people to be born unable to…


Pool Therapy Beats Physical Therapy for Chronic Low Back Pain

News briefs Aquatic (pool) therapy and physical therapy are two treatments that can reduce pain. But which is better for chronic low back pain? A small randomized trial published online Jan. 3, 2022, by JAMA Network Open suggests that buoyancy has the edge. Researchers took a group of 113 people with chronic low back pain,…