Back Pain - Osteopathy Effective For Lower Back Pain (applesforhealth) Osteopaths, doctors who traditionally have used their hands to manipulate spinal joints, can ease aching backs with far fewer pain-killing drugs than mainstream doctors, says new research. 11-26-99.
Back Pain - Tips (applesforhealth) If you suffer from back pain, there are things you can do to prevent it from worsening or requiring a visit to the doctor. Some helpful tips. 02-25-00.
Chest Pain (Health World) Lists causes of chest pain. 6-03
Pain - Acupuncture Dulls Pain (applesforhealth) Brain scans prove that acupuncture actually reduces pain sensations in the brain. 12-17-99.
Pain - Acupuncture Findings (applesforhealth) A consensus panel convened by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) concluded there is clear evidence that needle acupuncture treatment is effective for postoperative and chemotherapy nausea and vomiting, nausea of pregnancy, and postoperative dental pain. 08-13-99.
Pain - Even Preemies Can Discern Pain (applesforhealth) Researchers in St. Louis have concluded a study that finds premature infants may be underdeveloped in some ways, but being able to discern pain is not one of them. 07-09-99.
Pain - How to Choose Pain Relievers (applesforhealth) To choose the best pill for your pain, it helps to know how pain relievers work--and the potential problems each can cause. 03-31-00.
Pain Control and Burns (University of Washington) Provides some of the latest methods used to control pain.
Pain Experience May Linger (applesforhealth) A new study said newborn babies who undergo painful medical procedures are more sensitive to pain as they grow up. 10-01-99.
Pain Meds For Circumcision (applesforhealth) Baby boys undergoing circumcision should receive pain relief, declares a report from the American Medical Association. Medical staff often perform the procedure without using analgesics or local anesthesia. 12-10-99.
Pain Produces Tolerance To Further Pain (applesforhealth) Researchers find that pain produces a chemical that helps produce a tolerance to further pain. 10-15-99.
Pain Reduced with Brain Electrons (San Francisco Chronicle - Hall) Describes a new therapy for intractable pain. 5-02
Pain, Pain, Go Away (applesforhealth) A Gallup survey shows four of 10 Americans suffer daily pain, and 89 percent say they experience aches every month. Despite the prevalence of pain, only half of those surveyed have visited a doctor in the past three years for this problem and 64 percent say they seek a doctor's help only when the pain is intolerable. 04-14-00.
Tooth Ache (Kobernick) Provides pain symptoms commonly experienced with teeth and gums and suggests possible causes for each. Includes a checklist for symptoms related to a need for root canal surgery.
Research
- Back Pain - Start Exercising (applesforhealth)
Patients suffering from lower back pain are often told by their doctors that an exercise program can help - but many people worry the activity could make their backs worse, not better. 08-27-99.
- Pain - Hypnosis May Reduce Pain (applesforhealth)
Provides results from a study of 214 persons at a medical center. 04-07-00.
- Pain Relief Should Be Offered for Invasive Procedures (Scientific American)
"The least forgivable excuse for not alleviating pain would be for medical culture (and maybe society at large) simply to believe that pain ought to be part of medicine and must be endured. Weighing the risks and benefits of pain control should ultimately be the province of the patient. If doctors say there is no pain control for a given procedure, patients should ask why not. People undergoing invasive tests should at least be offered options for pain relief—even if they decide after all to bite the bullet." 6-03
- Pain Sensitivity Measurable (Scientific American)
"When it comes to pain, some people are tougher than others. New findings suggest that these differences are all in the head. Research published online this week by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences show for the first time that variation in how people perceive pain results from differences in brain activity." 6-03
- Pain Sensitivity Measured (Scientific American)
"By monitoring healthy humans experiencing sustained pain, scientists at the University of Michigan got to watch the brain's painkiller system in action and determined that not all brains handle pain equally well."
"They controlled the experimental conditions so that the subjects experienced similar levels of pain, but found that individuals showed different patterns of mu-opioid activity. There were differences in both the amount of chemicals released and the timing of the release. As it turned out, subjects who experienced the largest change in the mu-opioid system between the placebo injection and the painful one tended to report the least pain." 6-03
- Pain Treatment for Nerve Injuries (Scientific American)
Provides results of a study that may provide significant relief from pain for persons with nerve injuries--without other side effects--by using gene therapy. 6-03
- Proteins May Be Key in Pain Differences of Men and Women (Scientific American)
"When it comes to pain, guys may be tougher than gals because they have more of a particular type of protein, new research suggests."
"The findings could help researchers develop new gender-specific treatments for discomfort. Previous research had shown that males tend to have a higher threshold for pain than females do and that medications affect the sexes differently, although the precise mechanism remained unclear." 6-03
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