Tag: Pain
How to Develop Your Perfect Pain Plan
Why would someone need to start a pain plan? Follow this story to learn how Elizabeth decided she needed the perfect pain plan...
Elizabeth Brogan's pain problems started in the spring of 2000, when the...
Seven Ways You Are (Unknowingly) Making Your Pain Worse
When you have pain, the hurt can seem to have a mind of its own. It may come and go at will. It takes a toll on your mood and energy level. It can...
Tips to Reduce Stress and Anxiety
Use these relaxation strategies to reduce, prevent, and cope with stress & anxiety.
Could stress be causing your chronic pain? According to a study in Brain, people who live with chronic pain conditions like back...
Real Issues that People Living with Chronic Pain Face Every Day
An article by Toni Bernhard, J.D., published in 2013 on Psychology Today, discussed an important point: Living with chronic pain can feel like a full-time job. One reason for that, Bernhard wrote, is that...
High Levels of Fluoride in Tea Linked to Chronic Pain
Could That Morning Cup of Earl Grey Be Causing Your Aches?
People are passionate about their tea. Drinking it is serious business, with many tea lovers turning their daily cups into English-inspired rituals complete with...
Concussions: Underestimated and Misunderstood
The Effects of a Concussion Can Last a Lifetime
A concussion can affect the brain in a number of ways. Some of which can linger for a long time. A concussion can impair cognitive abilities like...
Rheumatoid Arthritis: Foods that Help
Ensure your meals are loaded with Omega-3 and antioxidants to keep your Rheumatoid Arthritis at bay.
With so many new medicines and medical devices on the market, you may sometimes lose sight of other remedies...
Your Guide to Healthy Holiday Eating
Tips for Healthy Holiday Eating
Don't let the holidays put your health in disarray. Use this healthy holiday eating tip sheet to keep off unwanted pounds, knock out pain conditions, and have a more pleasant...
Add These Steps to Your Anti-Arthritis Plan
Anti-Arthritis Plan Overview
For the more than 46 million people in the United States living with arthritis, life means some amount of pain most days, and, for some, every day. With so many millions affected,...
Diagnosed with Fibromyalgia? Symptoms, Causes, and Treatments
Diagnosed with Fibromyalgia? Fibromyalgia Overview
If you have started to present symptoms of fibromyalgia, or have recently been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, it can still feel like it's all in your head. After all, other people...
Music and Art Therapies Can Help with Chronic Pain
As you search for different therapies for chronic pain, have you given consideration to music and art? A song can be a powerful feel-good tool. It can help you temporarily forget the stresses of...
What Does Cancer Pain Actually Feel Like?
If you are suffering from cancer, you may have to deal with a lot of pain. While not everyone with cancer experiences pain, a significant number do. The pain that you feel will be different...
Understanding Alzheimer’s Disease & Assessing Pain in People with Dementia
Alzheimer’s disease is the most prevalent form of dementia, a term that encases the symptoms of degenerative brain diseases that impair the cognitive functioning of those affected. The disease can progress slowly over time,...
5 Tips to Ease Your PMS Symptoms
Ease Your PMS Overview
For most of us ladies, PMS is a monthly evil that rears its ugly head for about a week and wrecks just about everything in its path. Through its wide range...
Ask The Experts: Low-Level Laser Therapy Technology
Are you thinking of trying Low-Level Laser Therapy? For more information and to see if this could be a possible therapy for you, read our interview with Dr. Ryan Whelton and how he uses...
Put These Simple Pain Relief Tips to Use Today
Pain Relief Tips Overviews
It's no surprise that many sufferers of chronic pain have a difficult time relaxing. With the cost of prescriptions as high as they are, and an array of pain relieving products...
Peripheral Neuropathies: Lupus
Peripheral Neuropathies: Lupus Overview
Peripheral Neuropathies, Lupus, is often associated with a "butterfly rash" on the face. Its affects, however, are far from being as harmless as its namesake.
Lupus, or lupus erythematosus, is an autoimmune...
Does Your Lifestyle Affect Your Pain?
Medication plays an essential part in easing your aches, but lifestyle choices can be key to controlling them. Using this guide, take a few moments each evening to jot down details of your day...
What Is Chemotherapy?
Chemotherapy is designed to kill quickly reproducing cells in the body, most commonly cancer cells, by using highly potent chemicals. The chemicals used will vary based upon the type of cancer the patient has.
How...
Symptoms, Treatments And Causes Of Peripheral Neuropathy
Peripheral Neuropathy is usually caused by trauma to the nerve or by side-effects of another condition or illness. Not all conditions are the same, and the symptoms and length of treatment vary greatly from...
The Pain and Stress Connection: Control Both for Better Living
"take care of the pain and take care of the stress”
Almost no one denies there's a link between pain and stress. Pain activates stress and stress activates pain. It's a vicious cycle says Rollin...
Reducing Pain by Enhancing Your Home: 5 Strategies
Around 50 million adults suffer from chronic pain in the U.S. If you're one of the many people who has to deal with this condition, making upgrades to your home can significantly increase your...
How To Write an Effective Pain Journal
Sometimes, the events of the day can be just a little too much. This is especially true for people with chronic pain. This is where pain journaling comes in.
A pain journal is a place...
10 Things To Do When You’re Stuck in Bed on a Bad Pain Day
Chronic pain sufferers know that, while it affects everyone differently, everyone has a bad pain day every now and then. On days like this, there's really no way to leave your bed, and we...
