Daniel Redwood DCChiropractors are health professionals who focus on the relationship between the body's structure (primarily the spine) and its function (coordinated by the nervous system). While the spinal dysfunctions or imbalances that chiropractors call the...
Chiropractic offers the foremost contemporary example of a healing art that bridges the gap between complementary and conventional healthcare. The chiropractic profession has many characteristics of a mainstream health discipline that provides...
Byron Russell LAcSo, what can acupuncture do for tennis elbow? Reduce pain, relieve inflammation, encourage blood circulation and speed healing. The results are particularly noticeable in a situation like this involving damaged tendons where there is limited blood...
John WeeksIn 2005, Hawaii's major Blue Cross Blue Shield carrier, HMSA, contracted with Manakai O Malama, the integrative clinic founded by Ira Zunin, MD, MPH, MBA on an unusual integrative, outpatient pilot for some of their most costly, pain-ridden...
What Doctors Don't Tell YouTo nurture a drug through the tortuous process of drug approval is an extraordinarily expensive business. For a pharmaceutical company to gain a return on an investment of many millions, it needs to ensure that the drug will have a broad use among a...
For many thousands of years, the Chinese have espoused the efficacy of acupuncture for pain relief. Surprisingly, an astonishing wealth of recently published investigations into all aspects of ac ...
When I was 18, doctors discovered that I had ankylosing spondylitis, a form of arthritis that destroys the spine and all the major joints of the body. ...
Q I have a ganglion cyst on my right wrist that is apparently pressing on a nerve and right over a tendon. It’s too painful to bash with the family bible. I'm due to see a hospital consultant with a view to its being either aspirated or removed.
Dr Jacob Teitelbaum MDMany natural therapies can be very helpful for pain. My three favorite pain relieving herbals are willow bark, Boswellia, and tart cherry. All three of these can be found in combination in the End Fatigue "Pain Formula" by Integrative Therapeutics...
I can summarize what I was taught about chronic pain in medical school in 2 sentences. Use Tylenol and/or Motrin –like medications. If the patient has cancer, you can use narcotics if you have to. It is no surprise then that pain patients flock to...
