Doctors for Pain is an excellent website on treating and coping with chronic pain. You can use the site to find a pain management doc, learn about pain and alternatives or supplements to medications (like relaxation, music therapy and nutrition), and locate support and education…
Two stories on migraine seem to surface year after year: Acupuncture, whether real or a “sham,” can help prevent migraines and taking birth control pills can increase migraine and non-migraine headaches in women. Each story is based on findings of new studies and the topics…
ABC World News Tonight is running a three-part series on migraine, which began last night. The first report covered treatments on the horizon, including the drug Trexima, a skin patch that delivers an abortive drug directly into the skin using an electrical impulse, and an…
After I had my stimulator about a year, Medtronic began publishing Living Well, a newsletter about the company’s implanted stimulation devices and drug delivery systems. According to the newsletter’s nerve stimulation FAQs, these activities might be harmful: using an electric blanket, skiing, sledding, golfing, amusement…
What’s pain all about? Why does it happen and how does it becomes chronic? Why is pain so difficult to diagnose and treat? Do women have more pain disorders than men? The National Institutes of Health addresses all these questions in Pain: Hope Through Research….