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...
The National Women's Health Week kicks off on Mother's Day, May 12, and is celebrated through May 18, 2019. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office on Women’s Health leads National Women’s...
The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health Care reports in a September 2018 article, chronic pain and ‘high-impact’ chronic pain (daily pain affecting at least one major life activity), are on the rise...
According to JAMA Internal Medicine 2018, the use of gabapentinoids (Neurontin, Gralise, Horizant) and pregabalin have climbed from 1.2% in 2002 to 3.9% by 2015. According to Dr. Michael Johansen of the Heritage College...
In the May 2018 issue of the Journal of Pain, an update of a 2012 review article on acupuncture for chronic pain from the Archives of Internal Medicine provides the following highlights: Acupuncture is...
There have been a number of reports indicating that yoga is a good option for chronic low back pain. This report from National Institute of Health's News In Health provides additional support that a...