Thursday, July 31, 2014

How Chronic Pain Saps Your Mental Motivation


A sore back or sprained wrist makes your day-to-day life harder in more ways than one. Physical impairment is annoying enough on its own, but the chronic pain is its own distraction – one that makes it hard to focus. It’s been known for a while that chronic pain saps people’s motivation. And now, a team led by Stanford University’s Neil Schwartz has pinned down, in mice, some of the chemical and ...


New technology developed in Salt Lake City for the non-surgical treatment of lower back pain is now being studied in a clinical trial that recently commenced at several high-profile centers in Canada.


Many of my patients come to me with their back problems all diagnosed, at least in their own minds. Patients assume their back pain is caused by one of three things: muscle pain (not too serious), arthritis (worse) or a disk (really bad). But the problem ...


At one point, Christie was taking around 21 prescription drugs to cope with migraines, fatigues, sciatica and interstitial cystitis, she says. "I was different. I started to get sick and by the time I got out, I was visiting the emergency room twice a week.



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