Pain Management Through Hypnosis

2010-03-17T04:51:04Z

People have many different ways of dealing with pain. The process of handling and fighting pain is called pain management. Pain is categorized into two types-acute pain and chronic pain. Acute pain is a short-term type of pain like a fever, headache, migraine, stomach pain and the like. Chronic pain, on the other hand involves long-term pains like the ones experienced with illnesses such as cancer.<br><br>When it comes to pain management, people with low pain tolerance have a tend...

Benefits of Seeking a Pain Management Specialist

2010-03-15T23:23:59Z

You probably have experienced some form of body pain, or know someone who suffers from it in a serious nature. Pain can affect lives to a great degree and stop you from carrying out your functions in an ordinary way. So is there any benefit of visiting a pain management specialist?<br><br>Pain management specialists are physicians who have specialized in addressing the concerns of patients to function on a daily basis, and to bring back quality in their life. Those suffering from ...

Common painkillers might make you hard of hearing

2010-03-05T16:16:03Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Loud music or noise isn't the only thing that can damage your hearing. A new study in men hints that popping over-the-counter painkillers regularly can also lead to hearing loss, especially in younger men.</p><p>In the study, researchers found that men younger than age 50 who regularly took acetaminophen more than two times a week had roughly double the risk of hearing lo...

Acupuncture found lacking for fibromyalgia

2010-02-22T10:30:45Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Acupuncture may provide some temporary pain relief for people with fibromyalgia, but does not help with fatigue, sleep problems, or physical function, according to a new research review. However, the results are too inconsistent to recommend acupuncture as a treatment fibromyalgia, the reviewers conclude.</p><p>Fibromyalgia, a debilitating ...

Immune treatment helps chronic pain patients: study

2010-02-22T12:53:58Z

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters) - Treating the immune system can dramatically ease the suffering of people with chronic pain from an injured limb or following an amputation, a finding that could change the way such pain is treated, scientists said on Monday.</p><p>Researchers from the University of Liverpool

Poor women less likely to get epidurals

2010-02-22T14:35:06Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Even under Canada's system of universal healthcare, low-income women are less likely than their wealthier counterparts to receive epidural pain relief during childbirth, a new study finds.</p><p>The findings mirror those of studies from the U.S...

Opiate painkillers raise fracture risk

2010-02-22T15:06:24Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older adults who take powerful prescription painkillers known as opioids face an increased risk of bone fractures, especially at moderately high medication doses, a new study finds.</p><p>Opioids are powerful narcotic pain medications that include morphine, oxycodone (Oxycontin and other bra...

Electro-acupuncture shows promise for knee arthritis

2010-02-22T16:59:07Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A modern twist on traditional acupuncture may bring some pain relief to people with knee arthritis, at least in the short term, a small study suggests.</p><p>The study, published in the journal Pain, looked at the effects of electro-acupuncture among 40 adults with knee osteoarthritis -- the common "wear-and-tear" form of arthritis in which...

Hypnotherapy and Childbirth

2010-02-22T18:36:33Z

Women do not know that they can have a painless childbirth by undergoing hypnotherapy. This might seem impossible, but it is true.<br><br>Hypnosis has actually been used as a pain reliever for a lot of people. It has been effective in reducing pain and reducing the need for pain medication during childbirth for over a century. But it has only been brought to the attention of mothers under labor as a pain reducer recently. Back in the day, hypnosis would have been a...

Yoga Accessories Relieve Back Pain

2010-02-23T08:45:17Z

A centuries-old tradition can help relieve chronic back pain with little investment of time or money. Millions of Americans have turned to Yoga practice and its simple yoga accessories to cure one of the most debilitating problems of modern life ? chronic back pain.<br><br>Yoga History - It is estimated yoga began in India in prehistoric times, more than 5,000 years ago. Although Yoga probably arrived in the U.S. alone, more and more sufferers are looking for effective means of achieving joint pain relief. Joint pain can be caused by many factors such as old age, hereditary conditions, diseases and neglect. Determining what causes your joint pain is essential because if the pain is not properly addressed, more importantly if a serious disease has brought about the pain, certain c...

When Pain Relief Medications Cause More Migraine Headaches

2010-02-23T16:31:17Z

Author: Huey Davis

Getting a migraine headache has become all-too-natural for people who live hectic, hurried lives in the city. It is no wonder that every urbanite's cupboard or medicine cabinet is often stocked with pain relief medications. When the migraine headache comes back, we simply repeat the practice. While it seems harmless to take migraine headache pills for a day or two, overusing it can have unexpected and serious consequences. There are however natural solu...

Sugar with hugs relieve newborn pain

2010-02-23T17:33:52Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Mary Poppins was right - a spoonful of sugar does help.</p><p>New research from Brazil suggests that sugar and hugs appear to reduce the pain felt by newborns when they are given a shot, more so than sugar (dextrose) or skin-to-skin contact a...

Four Tips You Must Know to Lessen Chronic Pain

2010-02-23T21:56:45Z

Chronic pain can make any person crazy. It is hard for any human to tolerate any kind of pain, most particularly if the pain is persistent. The body could probably withstand the pain but the mind cannot. Reducing the pain can be done through change of lifestyle. So if you are the type of person who are either overweight or under, has poor diet, and no regular exercise whatsoever, then the chance of lessening your pain is next to impossible. All these have to change, lifestyle is very importan...

How Effective is Your Arthritis Treatment ? What is the Option

2010-02-23T21:56:46Z

Arthritis is thought to be the most important cause of pain to a lot of Americans. So what is arthritis? It is the inflammation of joints, and contrary to what most of the people thought about it, it is not a disease that is connected only to older people. In fact, it can afflict people of all ages; it is a disease that has no known cure.<br><br>The tendons, muscle and other main organs are the ones that greatly affected by arthritis. There are about 100 kinds of a...

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