Successful approaches to chronic conditions such as persistent back pain require some level of patient adaptation including self-management. This does not mean that patients are left alone to manage their conditions, rather a collaborative...
Part two in a series of blog post, this installment explores mental health related treatment options that acupuncture providers can offer with the use of telemedicine. As referenced in part 1 of this series, many...
Anecdotally clinicians often see patients that present with more than one area of pain. A 2021 open access systematic review published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders provides some insight about this. The article titled, Distribution...
According to a newly released National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) report using data from the 2019 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), 20.4% of adults had chronic pain and 7.4% of adults had chronic...
An August 2020 report by the National Governors Association highlighted the clear risks that opioids pose and the importance of increasing access to non-opioid forms of pain management as a strategy to confront the...
September is Pain Awareness Month, highlighting the most common reason patients visit their health care providers including integrative health (IH) providers, e.g., acupuncturist, chiropractor, massage therapist, naturopath. An excellent resource of the most up-to-date...
September is Pain Awareness Month in the United States. The CHP Group will be sharing tools and resources this month related to pain awareness and pain management from the International Association for the Study...
An NCCIH article reports numerous studies that suggest benefits with several aspects of wellness, including stress management, mental/emotional health, promoting healthy eating/ activity habits, sleep and balance. In addition, promising results show yoga to be...
This article is a systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of using TPMT for non-cancer pain. Search consisted of patients older than 18 years with pain of three (3) months duration or more...