Expressing Gratitude During the Holidays
Gary Kaplan, DO, a speaker at No Life Limited By Pain 2015, wrote about the 4 Ways to Practice Gratitude During the Holidays. Here’s an excerpt: Gratitude is the expression of being thankful. It’s...
View ArticleCRPS: Integrating Concepts of Neuroinflammation Into Integrated Pain Management
By Debra Nelson-Hogan Peter Moskovitz, MD, and Mark S. Cooper, PhD, presented a provocative plenary session called Deconstructing Hysteria: Integrating Concepts of Neuroinflammation into Integrated...
View ArticleDemonstration: Breath Work Technique
At our 26th Annual Meeting, we asked Jay Sandweiss, DO, C-NMM/OMM, FAAMA, to demonstrate a breath work technique he teaches to his pain management patients. He said he often starts his consultations...
View ArticleChronic Pain Collaborative Innovators to Report on Results in Webinar on...
Truly innovative pain clinics across the nation are working to build integrative practices that help patients manage chronic pain through seamless access to drugless therapies and self-care. In 2015,...
View ArticleMaximize Data To Improve Pain Care
Health care organizations are constantly seeking ways to improve pain care, but often make decisions that are not based on data. By having outcomes data, these organizations are more likely to provide...
View ArticleJust How Helpful Is Chronic Pain Surgery? A Review
When faced with chronic pain, patients find themselves weighing the pros and cons of having surgical procedures that could drastically change their lives. Even in the case of minimally invasive...
View ArticleHow Yoga Helps Chronic Pain
In the video below, learn why Catherine R. Stallworth, MD, FAAPMR, RYT, started incorporating yoga into her pain management practice: Want to learn more? Take Dr. Stallworth’s course, Yoga,...
View ArticleBreathing Techniques for Patients
At our 26th Annual Meeting, two speakers demonstrated breathwork techniques they use with chronic pain patients. Catherine R. Stallworth, MD, FAAPMR, RYT and Founder of BE Well, led two morning...
View ArticleComplementary and Integrative Medicine: The Military Medicine Experience
Over the past decade-plus, the U.S. military has been engaged in the longest armed conflicts in history fought by volunteers engaged in often multiple, recurrent deployments into combat. The resulting...
View ArticleThe Business of Chronic Pain Care
In the past, non-traditional, health-promoting practices, such as acupuncture, massage, healthy lifestyle training and mind-body practices, have appeared to be at odds with the disease-management...
View ArticleBiofeedback and Pain Management
Autonomic dysregulation is a central feature of centralized pain syndromes. Thought ruminations have been shown to amplify pain perception. Learning to shift emotions with heart rate variability (HRV)...
View ArticleAcupuncture More Effective than Usual Care for Headaches due to Traumatic...
A recent study by Samueli Institute (SI) provides evidence that acupuncture should be a standard form of treatment for chronic headaches due to Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). “Health care systems need...
View ArticleUnderstanding and Treating Migraines Using Nutrients and Herbals: A Focus on...
By Trupti Gokani, MD Migraine is more common than asthma and diabetes combined (1), with 36 million sufferers in the United States. Moderate to severe episodes of pain are often associated with nausea...
View Article5 Online Courses for Non-Pharmacologic Treatments
Continuing education is a must for any practitioner, and our growing library of online courses comply with many CME requirements. Here are 5 courses we offer for non-pharmacologic treatments that you...
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