Living with chronic pain, non-cancer pain, often causes other problems besides the pain itself. These problems can range from physical issues, such as overusing one side of the body to protect the other, to psychological issues, such as depression, to social issues, such as isolation.
Chronic pain is also extremely difficult to treat in most cases. Acute pain is caused – usually – by an identifiable source and is fixable. This includes a broken bone, an incision from surgery, a toothache. But chronic pain is not as easily identified, not as specific, and often not fixable.
A new study, published in the …read more

If you take herbs to manage your chronic pain or illness, or you would like to, I have an interesting and helpful brochure for you. Herbs are natural, so many people feel that if it’s natural, it must be safe. That isn’t necessarily true. After all, there are many natural things in the world that are deadly if consumed by humans. So, it’s important to keep that in mind when deciding what types of herbs you may be interested in and from where you get them.
The American Society of Anesthesiologists have put out a brochure – in PDF format …read more

Ok – chronic pain is becoming a huge problem, from migraines and back pain to left over pain from treatments for chronic illnesses. In fact, pain like this  affects up to 75 million people in the United States. If pain were a disease, that would be considered an epidemic: a pain epidemic. So – what gives in terms of treatment and management? Apparently, not much.
According to an article published in the June 2008 issue of the Journal of General of Internal Medicine, researchers write that they still don’t know what is best for which patients. Despite all the research into …read more