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Medicine

What you've been told about pain is wrong

Mindfulness

Why Anger and Recovery From Chronic Pain Are So Incompatible

Acceptance and self-compassion, not anger, more effectively ease suffering from chronic physical pain and require changing one’s relationship to pain through mindfulness.

"Lower the Emotional Volume": Chronic Pain

Chronic pain often outlasts tissue healing due to central sensitization, requiring psychological and behavioral approaches alongside physical treatments.

1 week ago

Chronic pain is not just in your head, but it is in your brain

Chronic pain affects 24% of U.S. adults, complicating diagnosis and treatment despite its prevalence.

3 weeks ago

What's Missing in Chronic Pain Treatment?

Chronic pain significantly impacts individuals with bipolar disorder, affecting their mental health and recovery process.

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fromFast Company

4 weeks ago

Why employees with chronic pain feel shame-and how they can break free

Chronic pain affects 23% of U.S. adults, impacting productivity and costing the economy $722 billion annually.

What you've been told about pain is wrong

Chronic pain affects about 25% of U.S. adults, often misunderstood by the public and doctors, leading to unnecessary suffering.

Mindfulness

Why Anger and Recovery From Chronic Pain Are So Incompatible

Mental health

"Lower the Emotional Volume": Chronic Pain

Epilepsy Gene Implicated in Severe Migraine Disorder - News Center

Mutations in the SCN2A gene are identified as a new cause of familial hemiplegic migraine, expanding the genetic understanding of this condition.

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fromwww.npr.org

3 weeks ago

US news

Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains what we do and still don't know about pain

fromBig Think

The 3 pillars of pain: A radical new way to understand why you hurt

Pain is a biopsychosocial phenomenon influenced by biological, psychological, and sociological factors, requiring a holistic treatment approach.

Mindfulness

Four Strategies That Improve Pain and Athletic Performance

fromwww.npr.org

3 weeks ago

US news

Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains what we do and still don't know about pain

fromBig Think

The 3 pillars of pain: A radical new way to understand why you hurt

Pain is a biopsychosocial phenomenon influenced by biological, psychological, and sociological factors, requiring a holistic treatment approach.

Mindfulness

Four Strategies That Improve Pain and Athletic Performance

The Problem With 'Medically Unexplained' Symptoms

Many patients suffer from unexplained symptoms despite normal tests, and emerging research offers new insights into persistent physical symptoms and treatment options.

2 weeks ago

Understanding Phantom Pain

Phantom pain is the sensation of pain in a body part that is no longer present, affecting many amputees.

Healthcare

fromMission Local

New bill would pin a place in California budget for acupuncture

Acupuncture benefits in Medi-Cal are secured through SB 944, ensuring access for low-income residents despite federal funding uncertainties.

Philosophy

Debating About the Boundary Between Pain and Suffering

Pain and suffering have a complex, interdependent relationship, where suffering can also cause pain, challenging traditional views of pain management.

The Invisible Losses of Chronic Illness

Chronic illness often leads to hidden struggles, requiring individuals to grieve losses while pursuing meaning and connection for a better future.

Health

What Tired and Fatigued Really Mean to the Chronically Ill

Chronic illness fatigue differs fundamentally from normal tiredness; rest doesn't resolve it, and sufferers often rely on adrenaline to complete necessary tasks, resulting in significant physical and mental consequences.

The Invisible Losses of Chronic Illness

Chronic illness often leads to hidden struggles, requiring individuals to grieve losses while pursuing meaning and connection for a better future.

Health

What Tired and Fatigued Really Mean to the Chronically Ill

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Woman with 'agonising' condition to 'give back'

I have been so well looked after that I wanted to find some way to not only give something back, but also to raise the profile of this awful condition.

Fundraising

4 weeks ago

Our skin is falling off and no-one can tell us why

Topical steroid withdrawal (TSW) is a serious condition affecting many eczema patients, leading to severe skin reactions and inadequate medical recognition.

fromSilicon Canals

Research says when loneliness stops hurting and starts feeling normal, you've entered a state called emotional numbness - and it's not apathy, it's your nervous system protecting you from a pain it believes will never end - Silicon Canals

Emotional numbness is a survival mechanism triggered by chronic stress and social isolation, leading the nervous system to shut down in response to prolonged disconnection.

Mindfulness

Rest and Chronic Illness

Rest is essential for managing chronic illness fatigue, with quality and detachment from stressors being key factors in optimizing its benefits.

Skin cells remember inflammation for life. Here's why

Skin has a memory that influences healing and flare-ups in conditions like psoriasis due to inherited gene expression patterns and epigenetic marks.

fromFortune

12 Alternative Therapies for Chronic Pain | Fortune

Non-drug approaches like acupuncture, massage, meditation, and tai chi are recommended as first-line treatments for chronic pain in older adults, with many patients reducing or eliminating pain medication use.

Exercise

fromScienceDaily

Millions with joint pain and osteoarthritis are missing the most powerful treatment

Exercise is the most effective treatment for osteoarthritis, yet fewer than half of patients are referred to it, with many instead receiving unnecessary treatments or premature surgery.

10 Tips for Combining Traditional and Modern Pain Management Techniques

Pain management doctors combine traditional techniques like acupuncture with modern therapies such as PRP and electrotherapy to create more effective, personalized treatment approaches.

Yoga

fromYoga Journal

Got Neck Pain? These Stretches Help Release Tension.

A 15-minute gentle, prop-supported yoga sequence relieves neck tension from stress and tech neck through gentle backbends, twists, and mindful relaxation.

Migraines Are a Signal: 6 Root Causes Most People Never Address

Migraines result from underlying dysfunction in the brain, gut, immune system, hormones, or metabolism rather than random events, and identifying these root causes reduces migraine vulnerability.

fromNature

Gel helps mini spinal cords to heal from injury

Complex 3D structures of cells called organoids could be used to test treatments for spinal-cord damage that can lead to paralysis.

Science

I woke up from an operation in agony and the pain never went away

It felt like I had a needle through my back, and it was coming out my front, and I couldn't twist past it. Your mental health is affected. You get brain fog, you're tired, you're fatigued. You can't function as a woman and that's every day for 10 years.

Healthcare

A Gentler Approach to Topical Pain Relief

Capsadyn delivers maximum-strength (0.25%) capsaicin topical relief for minor arthritis, joint, and muscle pain with minimal burning, gaining strong consumer demand on Amazon.

Joint Pain: Why Most Treatments Mask the Problem and Why Regulation Matters for True Healing

It is one of the most common reasons that adults look for medical care. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are over 58 million adults who are living with doctor-diagnosed arthritis in the US alone. In addition to this, over 25 million people battle with daily limitations caused by joint pain. (CDC, 2024). Probably, even more concerning, is the fact that an estimated 15 million adults experience severe joint pain rated

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fromwww.theguardian.com

My fortnight in a posture corrector: can this simple device help reduce back pain?

Wearable posture correctors can temporarily improve posture but should be used only short-term and alongside movement, exercise, and professional guidance to avoid dependence.

"It's Unfair!" How Perceived Injustice Affects My Chronic Pain

Perceived injustice from chronic pain significantly worsens depression risk and delays physical recovery, requiring targeted psychotherapy to address these beliefs.

Relieve Arthritis Pain Naturally

Individualized combinations of movement, dietary changes, and evidence-based supplements offer the most effective approach to arthritis pain relief.

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fromIndependent

Medicine

Trigeminal neuralgia: Unimaginable pain strikes without warning. It's like touching an electric fence to the power of 10

Medicine

Like a screwdriver in my face - Life with 'the world's most painful known medical condition'

fromIndependent

Medicine

Trigeminal neuralgia: Unimaginable pain strikes without warning. It's like touching an electric fence to the power of 10

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Medicine

Like a screwdriver in my face - Life with 'the world's most painful known medical condition'

What Natural Substances Can Be Used to Treat Arthritis?

Natural alternatives like CBD, glucosamine sulfate, and chondroitin sulfate offer pain relief and anti-inflammatory benefits for arthritis management without chemical additives.

I spent 13 years in pain before doctors finally worked out why

Endometriosis diagnosis is significantly delayed in the UK, with patients waiting an average of nine years and four months, often dismissed as other conditions despite severe symptoms.

The Body's Breaking Point : Re-engineering the Aching Human Frame

Chronic back pain arises from modern sedentary living and is being addressed by micro-movement rehabilitation or new biased-agonist pharmacology.

Fibromyalgia, Pain, and Substance Use Disorders

Fibromyalgia's abnormal pain processing and shared brain pathways with addiction create vulnerability to substance use disorders, with approximately 40% of chronic pain patients meeting SUD criteria.

fromwww.theguardian.com

3 months ago

The spikiness secret: can acupressure mats help with pain, stress and insomnia?

He bought an acupressure mat made of lightly padded fabric, studded all over with tiny plastic spikes, to lay his back on, and was surprised to find that it actually helped. Acupressure mats, also known as Shakti mats, are inspired by the beds of nails that Indian gurus used for meditation and healing more than 1,000 years ago. While today's mats have the nonthreatening sheen of a luxury wellbeing product, the spikes are no joke.

Alternative medicine

What's Causing Your Chronic Ankle Pain?

Chronic ankle pain commonly results from repeated ankle sprains causing instability, inflammation, and damage, producing pain during walking and daily activities.

fromFortune Well

How over-the-counter pain relievers might make low back pain worse | Fortune Well

Low back pain is the most common and debilitating of all pain complaints. Heavy lifting can cause it, but so can sitting at a desk all day, especially if you have bad posture and poor back support. Think hunching over a laptop at your dining table. Most times, an acute injury causing lower back pain will get better on its own in a matter of weeks. But it also can become a more lasting problem, especially as you age. Now some new science suggests one reason for this could be that we've been approaching the inflammation that comes with back pain all wrong.

Medicine

Gabapentin for Chronic Pain, a Safe Alternative to Opioids?

Gabapentin is an anticonvulsant medication that is FDA approved for the treatment of seizure disorders and postherpetic neuralgia-a chronic, often debilitating, nerve pain syndrome often linked to shingles. It is classified as an anticonvulsant and a GABA analogue, meaning it mimics the neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), which normally reduces nerve excitability.

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fromBustle

Why Even Supportive Partners Can Struggle To Understand Migraines

Migraines are complex, multi-day neurological disorders whose invisible symptoms complicate understanding, support, and communication within intimate relationships.

fromScary Mommy

New Study Sheds Light On Why Women Experience More Chronic Pain Than Men

Men's higher testosterone levels enable more efficient immune system pain suppression through increased interleukin-10 production, explaining why women experience prolonged chronic pain more frequently than men.

fromwww.theguardian.com

I was told to accept chronic migraines. Then a keto diet gave me my life back | Natalie Mead

Chronic migraine disorder can become a long-term, disabling condition that resists reversal despite testing, treatments, and lifestyle changes.