Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Effective for Chronic Pain...
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is well-known for its ability to help patients deal both with mental and physical health issues. Chronic pain patients who undergo this form of therapy often reap...
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An Exercise Plan Effective for African Americans with Arthritis
Both osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis can cause a significant amount of pain, stiffness and disability. There is no cure for either condition, meaning that patients often struggle to fight...
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Issue No.4 Released
The latest issue of “Healing Education” is out and available on Apple’s Newsstand and Google Play In this issue we explore different ways to stopping Musculoskeletal Pain and Running the right way....
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Dairy May Help Manage, Prevent a Number of Chronic Health Conditions
Lunch Is dairy part of a healthy diet? We’ve long known that the calcium contained in dairy products is good for our bones and can help prevent osteoporosis; also, dairy’s protein content can aid in...
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Opioids Only Slightly Effective for Osteoarthritis Pain
Water exercise Osteoarthritis is a “wear and tear” form of arthritis in which joints deteriorate, leading to pain, stiffness and, sometimes, disability. While patients await a reliable treatment...
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Study: Exercise Useful in Management of ADHD Symptoms
Children Playing Whenever a physical or mental health condition sees a rapid rise in diagnosis rate, it begs the question: Have we just gotten better at diagnosing a real condition, or is the...
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Yoga May Be Safe, Effective for Disc-Related Back Pain
Exercise Research into the effectiveness of yoga as a form of exercise therapy for lower back pain has, time and time again, ruled in favor of this ancient form of exercise. In May of 2013, a...
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Osteoporosis Affects More Women, but Prognosis Worse for Men
X-ray The discussion of osteoporosis tends to focus on women; this is because estrogen levels affect bone strength and, after menopause, women’s bones become more brittle since their estrogen levels...
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Writing May be Key Component of Chronic Pain Management
Pain Spine surgeon David Hanscom, author of Back in Control: A Spine Surgeon’s Roadmap Out of Chronic Pain, offered a startling estimate in a recent interview with Fox News: As many as two-thirds of...
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Depression May Worsen Prognosis of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Surgery
Surgical instruments Lumbar spinal stenosis is a fairly common cause of chronic back pain among older people. It occurs when bone spurs or disc material impinges a nerve either within or just beyond...
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Headaches Associated with Sexual Activity: Prevention
There’s nothing like a sudden headache to put a damper on love-making, and it’s likely something that occurs to more people than we realize. About 1% of adults tell medical professionals that they...
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Website Helps Chronic Pain Patients Live Better Lives
Having chronic pain today is vastly different than having it decades ago. While much remains to be discovered about the causes, mechanisms and treatment of chronic pain, patients today have much more...
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Sitting on Exercise Ball Increases Back Muscle Strength
Is sitting on an exercise ball just another ab workout gimmick? Over the past decade it has become increasingly common to see exercise balls behind work desks in place of office chairs. The idea is...
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Study: Spinal Manipulation for Lower Back Pain Cost-Effective
Health care is expensive. Even if you have insurance, deductibles and co-pays may deter you from seeking treatment for certain health conditions. Chronic back pain is one condition that people often...
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Another Opioid Risk: Poorer Spinal Surgery Outcomes
In 2012, the CDC declared prescription drug overdose to be a new epidemic. This was followed shortly thereafter by an alarming rise in the number of heroin abusers in connection with previous use of...
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Improve Physical Function Prognosis with Knee Osteoarthritis: Walk 6,000...
Knee osteoarthritis is the primary cause of functional limitation among older adults. Finding ways to mitigate the impacts of the condition on patients’ physical ability is, then, an important goal of...
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Therapy for Children with Chronic Pain
Chronic pain is unfortunate when it strikes anyone; it is particularly heart-wrenching when it occurs in children. While epidemiologic research yields varying results, the Society for Pediatric...
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Gastric Bypass Surgery Comes with Risks, Restrictions
While it’s possible to be healthy overall even with a little excess weight, those who are severely overweight need to lose weight in order to be healthy. Heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes,...
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THC May Be Useful Therapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis, Autoimmune Disorders
The body of evidence in favor of medical marijuana’s effectiveness in managing numerous health conditions is mounting, and policy is beginning to acknowledge this, at least on the state level. The drug...
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Make Sedentary Activities Less Sedentary: Get Creative
Research consistently links a sedentary lifestyle to a number of hazardous health conditions, including heart disease and diabetes. A lack of mobility is also associated with chronic back pain, as...
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Knee Replacement Surgery Likely Overperformed
The suspected over-performance of spinal fusion surgery has been a recurring topic on this blog. Overuse of invasive surgical procedures is not limited to the back; recent research suggests that knee...
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BMI Measurement Misses Many Cases of Obesity
The body mass index, or BMI, is a standard tool used by medical professionals to estimate whether a patient is underweight, at a healthy weight, overweight or obese. The simplicity of the measurement...
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Three Pain Relief Supplements Contain Hidden Drug Ingredients
There is no dearth of pain relief products on the market. For people with back pain, arthritis, fibromyalgia and other chronic pain conditions, a “natural” pain relief supplement may seem like a safe...
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Weak Gluteus Medius: Potential Source of Lower Back Pain
If your back hurts, it makes sense to suspect something in your back as the source of the pain. However, the many musculoskeletal interconnections within the body mean that sometimes the source of a...
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Myofascial Release Improves Outcomes of Exercise Therapy in Back Pain Treatement
Myofascial release is increasing in popularity as a component of treatment for muscle-related pain conditions. This manual technique operates on the premise that chronic muscle tension results in knots...
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New Arthritis Drug May Prevent Bone Loss
While medication is in many respects an important component of rheumatoid arthritis treatment, those currently used come with notable risks. Rheumatoid arthritis occurs when the body’s inflammatory...
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Omega-3’s May Protect Joints from Osteoarthritis
Obesity is a main osteoarthritis risk factor, but why? When it occurs in the knees, this seems to make sense; excess weight equals excess wear and tear. However, the condition manifests in...
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Yoga Outperforms Core Exercise Program for Lower Back Pain
Which type of exercise is best for back pain? Time and time again, from small studies to large-scale systematic reviews, research has validated the effectiveness of yoga as a form of back pain...
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Mindfulness Program Improves Pain, Opioid Misuse Issues
Mindfulness is a practice that entails taking a step back from one’s thoughts and feelings to become an observer of them. From a more objective standpoint, we’re able to adopt a more analytical and...
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Opioids May Inhibit Body’s Healing Processes
Opioid medications are commonly prescribed to patients with chronic pain. Until recently, these powerful pain-killers were only used for patients with severe pain related to cancer. Concerns about...
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FDA’s Approval of Powerful New Pain-Killer Raises Concerns
Despite the fact that the FDA’s advisory committee overwhelmingly voted against the approval of a new chronic pain medication called Zohydro toward the end of 2012, the FDA approved the drug, which hit...
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Acetaminophen May Be Ineffective in Management of Acute Back Pain
Acetaminophen, also known as paracetamol, is a commonly-used over-the-counter pain reliever. When patients present with acute lower back pain, they’re often instructed to make use of such medications...
View ArticleOpioids Linked to Testosterone Deficiency
Opioid risks are many and varied; this blog has delved into a number of them, from addiction and overdose to impaired healing. Another risk is currently coming to light in the research, one that...
View ArticleAdjust Your Sleep Position to Prevent Back Pain
While it’s common knowledge that a good mattress is important for managing and preventing lower back pain, many overlook the importance of how they sleep. Your sleep position may be contributing to...
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Buckle Kids Up Right to Prevent Severe Injury, Fatality
A car crash can drastically alter the course of a child’s life by leaving him or her with a severe injury, such as a spinal cord injury. In the most tragic of cases, a car wreck can end a child’s life....
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Two Devices Help Improve Posture
Improving posture is an important component of back pain prevention and treatment, but, for some, it’s easier intended than accomplished. Whether you’re engrossed in work activities or just lounging...
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Melatonin May Be Useful in Pain Management
Melatonin is a hormone in the body best known for its role in regulating our circadian rhythms. When people suffer from insomnia, they may take a melatonin supplement in an effort to restore nature...
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Steroid Injections for Back Pain: Big Risks, Little Reward
Steroid injections have served as a go-to treatment for lower back pain for decades. During the procedure, anti-inflammatory medication is injected into the epidural space within the spine. Before...
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Goal Management: Adjusting to Life with Chronic Pain
Developing chronic pain necessitates a substantial life adjustment. Aside from the constant or repetitive unpleasant physical sensations, pain patients need to adapt to changes in the activities...
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Maladaptive Cognitions Predict Transition from Acute to Chronic Back Pain
For most people, a bout of lower back pain is no big deal; it clears up with a little TLC in days or, at worst, weeks. However, for some people, pain becomes chronic. If you know somebody with chronic...
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Four Misconceptions That Hinder Back Pain Recovery
While a highly common phenomenon, back pain is still surrounded by myths and misconceptions that may sabotage the desire for back pain recovery for some people. If you develop a case of back pain, it’s...
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Factors that Influence Recovery from Spinal Surgery
The decision to have spinal surgery is a hard one, and for good reason. With questionable effectiveness rates for the treatment of lower back pain, the recent suspicion that the most popular form of...
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Light Therapy May Help Relieve Chronic Pain
Bright light therapy has long been used as a treatment method for seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and is known for its high effectiveness rate in this application. The form of therapy is also used to...
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Heavy Use of Nicotine Replacement Products Shares Some Risks with Smoking
Smoking is detrimental not only to the lungs, but the back as well. The nicotine and carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke interferes with the diffusion of nutrients and oxygen into spinal discs, which...
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Past Abuse Can Exacerbate Chronic Pain
If you’re receiving treatment for chronic pain, there may be things about your past that you feel are irrelevant to your current treatment, but that could actually have an impact on your ability to...
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Acupressure Helps Manage Period Pain
For some women, period pain is simply a monthly nuisance; for others, the pain involved can interfere with daily activities and quality of life. For average period pain, most women reach for an...
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Physician Emphasis on Tissue Damage Can Inhibit Back Pain Recovery
The way we talk and think about lower back pain and other pain conditions has an effect on the way we physically experience them. One recent study looked at how physician comments about acute back pain...
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Best Sex Position for Men with Herniated Discs
For most individuals and couples, a healthy sex life, to include the best sex positions, is a vital component of overall well-being. Chronic back pain can take a toll on the quality of relationships...
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Guided Imagery Changes Experience of Pain by Empowering Patients
Research into chronic pain and its various treatment methods often faces a shortcoming: The typical tools used to measure pain intensity fail to account for the full experience of pain. Pain is a...
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3 Secrets To Fix Low Back Pain
Fix low back pain with this simple method. You know the first one and that is that there is something wrong with your back because of pain experienced. Sometimes that is revealed with a simple pop, a...
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