Acute and chronic pain effects over 100 million people in the United States each year. While pain is best known and characterized as subjective, meaning only the person who is experiencing it can explain what it feels like, pain is often called the Universal equalizer.

Pain affects people differently. What may be perceived as only a minor nuisance to one person, may be completely debilitating to someone else. Pain is a warning that something isn’t quite right. Pain is not a disease in itself but the result of an underlying condition or due to injury. …

Sciatica pain can be extremely torturous and can impair normal life. It can restrict movement to a large extent. In most cases, the pain is limited to one side of the body. It starts from the lower back and moves down to the hip, calf and extends till the toes.

Sciatica is often mistaken for a disease. But in fact, it is a result of a compressed, irritated or pinched nerve. Treatment of sciatica pain therefore, depends upon treating the cause of the compressed nerve.

Pain management is a significant aspect of all sciatic nerve treatments. Since …

No one wants to see the people they love suffer. However, sometimes with severe injury or illness, pain is simply unavoidable. Thats why its important to know how to help manage, treat, and cope with the pain your loved one might be feeling.

Many people will wonder why they should treat pain. They may fear addiction, or simply go by the philosophy that they should just live with it. But pain doesnt just make us less comfortable, it can also affect our mood, sleep patterns, our daily activities, and pretty …

Hypnosis for children to resolve or address some issues or problems regarding behaviour or health is called hypnotherapy. In hypnotherapy, children use their daydreams to change their behaviours, sensations and other symptoms. Not everybody can be a hypnotherapist. A trained health and psychiatric profession is needed to put children, also adults, into hypnosis.

Hypnotherapy or using hypnosis for treatments used to be unthinkable. Most people and patients alike, tend to think that hypnotherapists would require their patient to walk, cluck like chickens when hypnotized. One major disadvantage of this treatment, is …

By Shirley Vanderbilt

Just as a house is built from the ground up, on a firm foundation, so must your practice be based on a solid platform of knowledge and experience in the basics of massage and bodywork. But when it comes to adding windows of opportunity, it’s important to consider expanding your range. Creating a toolbox of modalities is an evolutionary process requiring thoughtful assessment of how best to meet the needs of your clients. It is also a means for staying competitive in an expanding market of integrative health.

What’s in your toolbox of modalities? …

It takes effort to look physically fit. Muscles don’t grow without exercise. But exercise can be painful. You’ve probably heard the saying, ‘No pain, no gain.’ There’s a good reason people say that. Muscle soreness goes hand in hand with daily workouts.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Devil’s Revenge. Spontaneous Combustion. Hot sauces have names like that for a reason. Now scientists are testing whether the stuff that makes the sauces so savage also can tame the pain of surgery.

Chili peppers have been part of folk remedy for centuries, and capsaicin creams are a drugstore staple.

Doctors are dripping the chemical that gives chili peppers their fire directly into open wounds during knee replacement and a few other highly painful operations.

Don’t try this at home: These experiments use an ultra-purified version of capsaicin to avoid infection — and …

Music is said to calm the savage beast. What about pain? Studies show that music therapy is instrumental (no pun intended) in reducing pain in patients with arthritis and other conditions.

Many people of all ages suffer from pain in their body. It can be from a chronic condition, an injury, or age. Pain is still pain. It is uncomfortable and affects all areas of our lives.

There is hope for those suffering from pain. New medical procedures have helped people dealing with bodily pain. For some, surgery is the …

Pain comes in all different flavors from shooting and throbbing to stabbing or aching. Only rare individuals will say that they actually enjoy it, though.

Sometimes pain only lasts for a short period of time, such as when you stove your finger. Other times it can last for a long time but will go away if it is treated right away.

Some people deal with a different type of pain that does not go away and is really hard to control. This is called chronic pain.

Mild pain is not too much of a problem for most people. …

Life with fibromyalgia, at the best of times, is a challenge. Unfortunately, one of the first lessons a sufferer learns is the fact that fibromyalgia is not curable. In spite of all the advances modern medicine has made over the decades, there is no way of curing the disease either with medications, treatments or surgeries. Instead, he most commonly associated symptom of the disease, such as the relentless presence of pain, can be treated with drugs.

Other symptoms that may be treated with prescription medicines or over the counter drugs are the fatigue that makes …