James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 The most common single location of chronic pain is in the lower back, but as many as 60 percent of these people hurt in many places.
The most common cause of such pain is arthritis and bone diseases. CDC research shows that people with arthritis and chronic pain have a higher incidence of obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, and smoking.
This suggests that there may be common links to all these diseases. Research suggests that those common links are vitamin D deficiency and dietary imbalance. |
Marshall Editions
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 Surgery: Surgical procedures may be helpful for chronic pain, but it is not appropriate for all cases of RSI. The benefits depend on the individual injury and the area of the body that is affected. Splints and assistive devices and supports may be necessary, and therapeutic ultrasound may be helpful for healing if chronic pain is present. za m -a
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Herbs: Take Du Huo Ji Shen Wan pills to strengthen the soft tissue and prevent recurring injury. To treat existing pain, try taking Yuan Hu Suo Zhi Tong Pian or Shan Qi Shen Pian pills for relief. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 They had chronic pain and problems with eating, speaking, and dental hygiene. In another review 10% of patients treated for cancer with zoledronic acid and 4% treated with pamidronate developed osteonecrosis of the jaw after three years of treatment. Most of the patients had dental problems, with dental surgeries that resulted in nonhealing bone. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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 When the stimulating stress hormones become overactive, as they do with chronic pain, they can affect brain cells and produce cell death, perhaps not immediately, but over time. For the brain, extreme pain experienced early in development is truly a matter of life and death. Nothing alerts us as much as pain—a pain we do not feel. Interestingly, a study published in Neuron found that amyloid plaques, a key culprit in Alzheimer's disease, is increasingly manufactured in mice when there is a hyperstimulation of neurons in the brain. |
Ray D. Strand
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 This medical condition involves an array of symptoms—the worst being chronic pain and fatigue.
In years past fibromyalgia was called psychosomatic rheumatism, and doctors believed the disease was all in the patient's head. We have since learned that fibromyalgia is a true, miserable disease—which I can vouch for after watching my wife suffer.
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Liz was willing to try anything so that she could continue the pursuit of her passion: training and riding dressage horses. But in time her pain and fatigue curtailed all work with her beloved animals. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 In fact, as of this writing, more than forty million Americans are affected by some form of arthritis, and many have chronic pain that limits daily activity. Osteoarthritis affects more than twenty million Americans and there are more than a hundred other forms of the disease, which makes arthritis the most common chronic condition in the United States.
Accompanying symptoms include pain, inflammation, and reduced mobility. |
Anne Harrington
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 In 1979, he persuaded officials at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester to let him set up a program in which patients suffering from chronic pain or other chronic disorders would be trained in "the regular, disciplined practice of moment-to-moment awareness or mindfulness, the complete 'owning' of each moment of your experience, good, bad, or ugly."41 In time, he believed, patients would learn that a considerable amount of their suffering had to do less with their pain itself, and more with their emotional reactions to that pain. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Patients might always have to manage chronic pain and excessive fatigue, but life can often be reasonably good. However, left undiagnosed and untreated too long—as was the case with Karen Johnson—patients can experience sudden, serious organ damage and die. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 Three years later, still plagued by chronic pain, he underwent two days of tests and a catheterization at his local hospital. When he got the results, the news was not good. "People with the severity of disease you have average about a year," the cardiologist told him. Since the doctors were afraid to operate, they prescribed medication for the pain, and the hospital dietician actually advised him to consume a stick of corn oil margarine every day—a prescription based on some study (we now know far better) that suggested corn oil was good for the heart and arteries! |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Side effects of common pharmaceuticals include weight gain, constipation, cancer, kidney disease, heart failure, depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and many other ailments they're supposed to remedy.
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The American Medical Association rakes in an additional $20 million annually by selling detailed profiles of all American doctors to pharmaceutical companies. With such information, these companies can market specific drugs directly to physicians in a particular field related to those products' "benefits". |
Roberta Bivins
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 Rather they pointed to its empirical success in individual cases, and in certain categories of complaint (particularly nervous and chronic pain). Framed in this way, acupuncture neither conflicted with nor challenged established understandings of the body and disease, even though it could not be fully integrated with them. Thus, although acupuncture's mechanism remained mysterious to western medicine—and indeed is unexplained in biomedical terms today—it was not dismissed as quackery. |
| Migraines, depression, back pain, allergies, arthritis, nausea (whether from morning sickness or chemotherapy), addictions, insomnia, and chronic pain: these mundane forms of morbidity have proven unresponsive to biomedical solutions. Meanwhile, the time consumed in repeatedly addressing them biomedically has grown increasingly costly and scarce for patients and practitioners alike.
But governments, especially, are committed to 'evidence-based medicine', and reluctant to spend taxpayers' money on unregulated and unproven procedures. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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 It's a delightful relief, especially if you suffer from chronic pain. Once you experience the relief, you'll think, "Why didn't I know about this sooner?" Another benefit is that the energy flowing to the crown of your head is now at your disposal to utilize for vast levels of expansion in awareness and power. You can do remarkable things with this energy. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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 Sarno's work has brought relief to a lot of people with OA, low back pain, disc problems, sciatica, pinched nerve, thoracic outlet syndrome, bursitis, tendonitis, knee pain, elbow pain, fibromyalgia, carpal tunnel syndrome, temporal mandibular joint syndrome (TMJ), and pain in the wrists, hands, lower legs, or feet, as well as unexplained chronic pain. I highly recommend looking at one of his books and applying his advice to yourself. (See the Resources section for his book titles.)
The worst that could happen: you'll be in less pain and more in touch with your deepest thoughts and feelings. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 Pain management centers also frequently employ counseling professionals who help people cope with the emotional consequences of having to live with chronic pain.
Questions to Ask Your Primary Care Doctor or Internist
Each of these referral tracks makes sense, but whether you will get any satisfaction when it is your doctor who makes the referral will depend just as much on the specialist's nature as on his or her specialty. |
Ron Garner
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 Benefits claimed and reported from the influence of pulsed electromagnetic field devices include: increased energy, increased oxygenation and blood circulation, improved nourishment of cells, stronger immune function, better removal of toxins from cells, reduction of stress, improved sleep, and improvement of many disease symptoms, including relief from chronic pain.
Pulsating electromagnetic therapy devices such as matress pads for home use can be found on the Internet. As with all health aids, one should conduct their own due diligence before purchasing and using such devices. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Discover the powerful tropical healer that fights cancer, lowers high blood pressure and relieves chronic pain. Direct Source Publishing; 1999.
Solomon N. Tahitian Noni juice: How much, how often, for what. Direct Source Publishing; 2000.
Solomon N. Tahitian Noni juice: The pain fighter (arthritis/pain). Direct Source Publishing; 2001.
Wang MY, Nowicki D, Anderson G, Su C, Jensen J. Protective effects of Morinda citrifolia on plasma superoxides (SAR) and lipid peroxides (LPO) in current smokers. The Proceedings of Xlth
Biennial Meeting of the Society for Free Radical Research International. |
| Nearly 90% of those with chronic pain experienced a significant decrease in pain and 80% of arthritis sufferers reported a lessening of arthritic symptoms. In addition, 80% of patients with heart disease experienced an improvement of their symptoms; 83% of patients with type 1 and 2 diabetes experienced a noticeable change in their condition; and 89% of patients experienced improved digestion. Further, 85% of patients with allergies experienced a decrease in their symptoms and 77% of people with depression experienced lessening of symptoms. |
Charles Barber
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 Researchers in the physiotherapy department at King's College, London, administered a cognitive-behavioral pain management program for patients experiencing chronic pain after cancer treatments such as surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy. A group of patients, most of whom had suffered from breast cancer, were taught cognitive and relaxation techniques and exercise training. They met with a therapist only an average of ten times. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Five percent of arthritis and chronic pain sufferers will be switched to a "new" and "better" product shortly after it enters the marketplace. Conservatively, 2.5 million people will take this pill every day, producing a $2/ pill profit for the pharmaceutical patent holder. When the costs of doing business — development costs, approval costs, advertising costs, production costs, and sales reps' salaries — are totaled, they are more than offset by the first year's sales. |
Marshall Editions
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| You may see immediate relief after one or two treatments, but for acute pain you may need daily treatments. For chronic pain, you may need acupuncture once or twice a week for a few months.
Acupressure: Use the tip of your thumb to apply strong pressure to the Hegu points, which are located on your hands in the depression between the thumb and the index finger, for one to two minutes. Repeat on the other hand. It will relieve the pain temporarily.
Diet: Generally, light, fresh food is recommended. Include plenty of turnips, celery, spinach, aubergine, and mung beans in your diet. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 On a scale of one to ten, with ten being most severe, she rated her chronic pain as an eight. When she visited NES practitioner and naturopathic physician Jason Siczkowycz, her scan showed her Source energy was severely depleted and her Stomach Driver was severely weakened, so she took these two Infoceuticals daily for six weeks. When she returned to Siczkowycz's office for another scan, she reported that her abdominal pain was gone. The new scan showed her Source Driver and Stomach Driver as fully functional. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Insomnia can also be a result of sleep-related disordered breathing due to snoring or apnea, chronic pain such as arthritis or fibromyalgia, thyroid conditions, restless leg syndrome, asthma, or medications.
Mood Swings, Depression, and Anxiety.
The psychological conditions associated with menopause have been a source of conflicting scientific data and controversy. Even though the relationship between menopause and depression has been extensively studied, the results have been inconsistent. |
Mark Sircus
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 Magnesium may act as good opiate alternative for many who become easily dependent on narcotic painkillers whose ill affects are permeating the population and even now are getting into the hands of our children. chronic pain is often treated with opiates, and the effects are terrific as long as they last, but tolerance develops rapidly, and increasing doses are required to produce the same pain relieving effect, further adding to the difficulty in treating pain.
Most pain medications are not safe; even the over the counter pain medications hold unforeseen dangers. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 Pain: Many diabetics fall victim to chronic pain due to conditions such as arthritis, neuropathy, circulatory insufficiency, or fibromyalgia. þDepression is a common accompaniment of diabetes. Clinical depression can often begin to occur even years before diabetes is fully evident. As well, depression is difficult to treat in poorly controlled diabetics. þAutoimmune disorders: Thyroid disease, inflammatory arthritis, and other diseases of the immune system commonly add to the suffering of diabetes. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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| They are prescribed for a long list of conditions besides depression, including anxiety, bipolar disorder, chronic pain, eating disorders, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
While antidepressants may be enormously helpful, even life-saving for some people, they are often overprescribed, at too high a dose, over too long a time, and often before a good medical evaluation has been done.
People are led to believe that the popular selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and similar antidepressant drugs are totally safe, and that they are repairing an imbalance in their brains. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You can live a life free of chronic pain and disease
The health answers are out there. It's up to you as a consumer to decide if you want to be part of that system or not. By "that system," I mean the system of holistic medicine, of nutrition, of disease prevention, of having a good, healthy, happy, long life without chronic pain. If you want to be part of that system, you have to make a choice, and you're going to have to shell out a little bit of cash for some of these products. Unfortunately, none of these are free. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 In 1995, a panel of the National Institutes of Health announced that their review of the clinical data showed that meditation and other relaxation techniques (such as biofeedback and hypnosis) can be effective treatments for insomnia and chronic pain. The panel was made up of experts in behavior, pain and sleep medicine, nursing,
The Fight-or-Flight Response
Pioneering stress researcher Hans Selye, MD, a Canadian physiologist, noted a consistent pattern of response to stress and termed these the general adaptation syndrome, commonly referred to as the fight-or-flight response. |
| Chronic insomnia occurs on most nights and lasts a month or more, and may arise from various medical conditions, including depression, anxiety disorders, arthritis, asthma, some heart and lung diseases, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and chronic pain.9
Postmenopausal women and older people tend to be more likely to suffer from some type of insomnia. |
| Hypnotherapy is currently taught in several allopathic medical programs and has been approved by the American Medical Association as a clinical adjunct in the management of chronic pain.19 Some states certify the profession of hypnotherapy by requiring a certain level of training. Other types of practitioners, such as psychotherapists and bodyworkers, may also use hypnosis as a tool to help their patients relax.
Self-Hypnosis for Relaxation and Sleep
Here's a basic procedure you can use to induce a state of self-hypnosis:
1. Think of an affirmation and place it in the back of your mind. |
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