You don’t realize how important your neck is to your overall health until something happens that puts it in constant pain. Whether it is an achy feeling, burning sensation or it feels as if someone is stabbing you with daggers, it can make your everyday activities a nightmare. Something as simple as watching your child …
Neuropathy involves a dysfunction of nerves that leads to lost sensation in different areas of the body. Although this lost sensation is not always associated with pain, a good deal of people may begin to experience pain in addition to this lost sensation, defining the condition commonly known as Neuropathic Pain. This pain is unique …
When most people think about pain management, they often think about drugs (prescription or over the counter). They picture themselves going to their doctor’s office and undergoing treatment after treatment. However, acupuncture is an alternative method of pain management that has been around for ages and that a lot of people have used to get …
Myofascial Pain Syndrome, also referred to as Chronic Myofascial Pain (CMP), is a condition that affects the muscles and the sheath of tissue, or fascia, that surrounds them. CMP can affect one muscle, or a group of muscles, making each case unique and with its different challenges. Although many people experience muscle pain or discomfort …
Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) encompasses a variety of physical and behavioral symptoms that occur in patterns during the second half of a woman’s menstrual cycle. Although most women of a childbearing age, approximately from the late twenties through the early forties, experience symptoms common to PMS, only a select amount experience them in a consistent, patterned …
Pelvic pain in women is a unique condition in that it can either be an ailment all its own or a symptom of another disease. Chronic pelvic pain is pain that can be felt in the lowest part of the abdomen and pelvis. Often, it doesn’t involve a specific pinpointed area but rather a large …
The Disease Called Technology Slavery Working for eight hours a day, five days a week and forty plus weeks a year hunched over a computer is a pain in the neck in more ways than one. The curse of technology has arrived. Today’s work environment is supposedly ergonomically designed, but the sheer monotony of coding, …
Are you one of those many people who suffer from a chronic back pain? Or maybe you just bent down and suddenly you can’t move your back? Have you suffered a long time from a painful back? How many sleepless nights have you gone through? Maybe you’ve been lifting some have weight and now your back feels …
Chronic pain can be an awful medical condition to live with and even adults can find it very difficult. And out of all the types of chronic pain out there, hip pain is most definitely among the most common ones, especially with people that are past a certain age. Surprisingly though, hip pain can affect …
Stumbling Blocks to Pain Management Pain management is a very ancient science. It has been in practice since 5,000 BC. But even though science has advanced tremendously in the past 7,000 years, the physical sources of painkillers remain the same. There are essentially three sources that produce chemical molecules that block the sensation of pain …
