Holistic treatment follows a comprehensive medical history including the mental, emotional, and social status of the patient. It would also include the same thorough physical examination and diagnostic tests that would be performed conventionally. Less testing might be done if the practitioner is more comfortable with ...

Although many of my patients have had success with the following program, I only use the general guidelines discussed below after reviewing a patient’s personal and medical history, performing a thorough examination and evaluating the laboratory studies to make sure that the program will be beneficial. Please ...

Amazingly, drugs whosenames have nothing to do with pain anticonvulsants, antispasm medications, and antidepressants can produce marvelous results for people in chronic pain. Anticonvulasant, for example, which were originally developed to cure epilepsy, can diminish some types of shooting pain. Antispasm medications, also called muscle relaxers, control muscle ...

First of all, our knowledge of the physiology of chronic pain in not complete. But we do know that pain begins when the nervous system responds to some sorts of stimulus, a pinprick, a blow to the arm, or some other type of injury a disease, for example ...