Millions of patients with knee osteoarthritis are told to exercise. A new study casts doubt on what sort of exercise is helpful. The idea made so much sense that it was rarely questioned: exercise to strengthen muscles around the knee helps patients with osteoarthritis, making it easier and less painful …
Read More »QR Cream – the Quick Relief Pain Cream you need
Don’t start the year in pain like I did. Instead find a product like QR QUICK RELIEF PAIN CREAM and keep it in your home for the occasions that pain finds you. I can’t begin to tell you how much Quick Relief Pain Cream has helped me this year. Unfortunately …
Read More »Acupuncture Helped People With Back Pain Walk and Bend Better
A double-blinded randomized trial of electroacupuncture found it may result in a modest improvement in daily functioning for those with chronic back pain, though it provided little pain relief. Electroacupuncture uses a small electric current passed between needles, a practice some believe provides additional pain relief compared with regular acupuncture. …
Read More »What Losing My Father Taught Me About Parenting, Planets and Pain
“There’s pain, and then there’s stepping on a Lego in the middle of the night,” my father often repeated with a laugh when his grandkids visited. They took over his living room, dining table, bedroom floors and bedside tables with messes of plastic blocks haphazardly assembled to resemble something magical …
Read More »Respecting Children’s Pain
In a new report on pediatric pain in the British medical journal The Lancet, a commission of experts, including scientists, doctors, psychologists, parents and patients, challenged those who take care of children to end what they described as the common undertreatment of pain in children, starting at birth. Isabel Jordan, …
Read More »Ask a Health Coach: Why Pain Doesn’t Equal Gain
Hi Folks! This week, Erin is navigating the age-old pain versus gain debate, providing strategies for injury-free workouts, ditching the restrictive diet mentality, and the real reason you’re not seeing results. Keep your questions coming over in the Mark’s Daily Apple Facebook group or in the comments below. Raymond asked: …
Read More »A Bloody Good Idea: This S’pore Subscription Startup Offers Menstrual Tonics For Period Pain
“I used to experience and tolerate really bad cramps and PMS (pre-menstrual syndrome) for years,” said Laurel Lua, founder of The Scarlet Company. She’s not alone however. Apparently, four in every five women experience menstrual discomfort during their periods. However, it seems that this discomfort has gotten worse during the …
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