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Pain Relief with Electrical Nerve Stimulation
A relatively low-cost treatment for pain that does not result in addiction, has few side effects and can reduce the need for other potent medications? Is TENS (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation) too good to be true? Or could it provide you with the analgesia you need, without all the side effects you don’t? |
Dealing with Acute and Chronic Pain While on Methadone
In addition to providing methadone to help people break their substance abuse addictions, methadone maintenance clinics serve a great many people who live with chronic or acute pain. Methadone, however, will not provide pain relief to those who take it for addiction treatment — these people need additional forms of analgesia. |
Osteoporosis: Coping With Chronic Pain
Pain is the body's way of responding to an injury. When a bone breaks, nerves send pain messages through the spinal cord to the brain, where they are interpreted. Your response to pain is determined by many factors, including your emotional outlook. |
First Chronic Pain Study to Show Clear Molecular Targets in the Brain
For centuries, doctors have tried to find effective ways to treat chronic pain, a devastating neurological disorder that affects almost 90 million Americans. A new study shows that two proteins in the brain trigger the neuronal changes that amplify and sustain this type of pain. The finding may lead to new ways of treating chronic pain. |
Psychological Methods of Pain Management
The following information provides those who have chronic pain with a brief overview of psychological methods for pain management. If you have chronic pain and need help managing it, you may wish to discuss these options with your doctor. |
The A to Z of Pain
In its most benign form, pain warns us that something isn't quite right, that we should take medicine or see a doctor. At its worst, however, pain robs us of our productivity, our well-being, and, for many of us suffering from extended illness, our very lives. Pain is a complex perception that differs enormously among individual patients, even those who appear to have identical injuries or illnesses. |
Gender and Pain
Pain affects men and women differently. While the sex hormones estrogen and testosterone certainly play a role in this phenomenon, psychology and culture, too, may account at least in part for differences in how men and women receive pain signals. |
A Pain Primer: What Do We Know About Pain?
Pain is a complicated process that involves an intricate interplay between a number of important chemicals found naturally in the brain and spinal cord. In general, these chemicals, called neurotransmitters, transmit nerve impulses from one cell to another. There are many different neurotransmitters in the human body; some play a role in human disease and, in the case of pain, act in various combinations to produce painful sensations in the body. |
How is Pain Treated?
The goal of pain management is to improve function, enabling individuals to work, attend school, or participate in other day-to-day activities. Patients and their physicians have a number of options for the treatment of pain; some are more effective than others. Whatever the treatment regime, it is important to remember that pain is treatable. The following treatments are among the most common. |
Unemployment, Chronic Pain and Depression Can Be Inextricably Connected
After relationship difficulties, unemployment is the most likely thing to push someone into a bad depression. This isn’t surprising, since work is often a significant source of an individual’s sense of worth and self-esteem. For many, depression first shows up in physical symptoms, such as headaches, gastrointestinal distress, and sexual dysfunction. |
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