August 8, 2008

Chronic Pain: a long-term illness


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Chronic pain is a common problem in many long-term illnesses. Chronic pain often has a mental, as well as a physical component. Pain is not all in you head, but you thoughts and feelings about the pain often affects in any way on how much pain you feel. Feeling is anxious, angry, frustrated, or out of control will not do any help in easing the pain and in fact it only makes the pain worse. Our minds and bodies are important allies in effort to manage the pain.

Dealing with chronic pain

Chronic pain is often caused by arthritis, osteoporosis, back problems, cancer or any other conditions. No medicine offers the complete and total relief; it only relieves our pain for a short time. And taking up too many medications can be bad to our body since some active ingredients of the medicine can cause a bad effect despite to the relief that it offers.

January 19, 2008

Do Magnets Have Healing Power?

Filed under: Magnets — Dine @ 9:33 am

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Recent studies suggest that maybe it is true that magnets have healing power. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston published their recent study on what they found out about magnets. They said that it is more effective to used magnet compared to sham magnets in terms of blocking pains which are cause by post-polio syndrome. Based on controlled study done, researchers said that 76% of patients treated with a magnet got pain relief compared to the percentage of patient relief in sham magnet.