How We Feel Pain is Complex
In the 1600s, Descartes famously drew a boy on one knee, his foot being burned by a fire. On the boy, he drew a line from the foot, up the leg, along the spine, and into the brain. This line was supposed to represent the nerve, or pain, pathway in humans.
How Can Integrative Medicine Help You?
Integrative Medicine–the practice of medicine that reaffirms the importance of the relationship between practitioner and patient, focuses on the whole person, is informed by evidence, and makes use of all appropriate therapeutic approaches, healthcare professionals and disciplines to achieve optimal health and healing.
What is ‘Gunn IMS’ and How Can it Help You?
Dry needling, as implied by its name, uses needles with no injection. A different name for dry needling is intramuscular stimulation (IMS), which I find more accurate.
Think Your Tea is Healthy? Think Again.
Lets share the healthful benefits of tea. Or should we? There are many studies that attest to the health benefits of tea. Tea drinkers immune systems are more active to protect them, green tea preserves cognitive function and tea contains many antioxidants.
How to Use Turmeric as an Anti-Inflammatory
Turmeric is a powerful anti-inflammatory. It is being studied as a pain reliever and for preservation of brain health. It comes from a root and is part of the ginger family. It is used in curries, can be added easily to soups and sautéed vegetables.
The Cost of Chronic Pain (Mother Earth Living)
The Institute of Medicine reports that more than 100 million people suffer from chronic pain. Sadly, conventional pain relief treatments often don’t improve the condition. In Holistic Pain Relief (New World Library, 2013), Heather Tick, M.D. seeks to help patients get through the ins and outs of pain treatment and management. In this excerpt from “Pain, Nature’s Wake-Up Call,” Tick discusses how chronic pain has become an epidemic of its own and the cost it has on society.
