If you’re on the fence about using alternative medicine to help relieve your pain, some research goes a long way to help you making your decisions. Here are 10 of the most popular posts on Help My Hurt so far, which are about alternative or complementary medicine:

Prolotherapy – effective treatment for lower back pain?
Using laughter to treat pain
Article: Scar Away Your Pain? Some Docs Back Prolotherapy
Acupuncture video – managing chronic pain
Music to help relieve pain
Aromatherapy for relief from chronic pain?
Journal of Pain article: Low-dose pot eases neuropathic pain
Finding a practitioner of complementary or alternative medicine
Rolfing – what is it?
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If you live near the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and have tennis elbow, you may be interested in this appeal for participants. The researchers are looking for people for a study to evaluate the benefits of prolotherapy for tennis elbow.
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Alternative treatments, those outside of mainstream Western medicine, are often viewed with suspicion, if not downright ridicule. However, as alternative medicine is becoming more popular, researchers are beginning to take them more seriously and are conducting research to determine if they really are effective.
Prolotherapy (proliferative injection therapy) is one treatment that is gaining popularity. This article from January 2007, Prolotherapy for low back pain, written by Simon Dagenais, PhD, reviews study findings of prolotherapy, the type of agent used, how often and how many injections were given, and if there were any other treatments done at the same time.
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