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We long to be ‘pain-free’. Because physical pain is somehow the opposite of physical freedom, it places terrible limitations on the variety, quality, and vibrancy of the life we are able to lead.
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Shockwaves, Pain Treatment & Hormetic Stress
Using hormetic (healthy) stress to heal painful tissues is a crucial element of pain management.. Even for pains that are predominantly nervous system based (like PTSD-associated pain), there is great value in healing and strengthening painful tissues.
Categories: Back Pain, Headache, Hip Pain, Knee Pain, Neck Pain, pain clinic, Pain Management, pain treatment, Rehabilitation & Lifestyle, Shoulder Pain, shoulder pain treatment
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Interpret Your Symptoms Like A Pain Expert
For most of human healthcare, we assumed that our symptoms were the problem. We have moved past that now to a large extent. For example: we know that the virus is the problem, not the green snot. Mucus is just a byproduct of healthy immune function. Prior to the microscope, we naturally assumed the redness and swelling of an infection was ‘the problem’. But since microscopes, we know our swelling is the body’s vital inflammatory response and the actual problem was an invasion of hostile microbes. Through this deepening of scientific understanding, we’ve moved past ‘symptom blaming’. Somewhat. Because we still very much do it with pain.
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How Grief Can Influence Pain
Emotions can have a profound effect on our physical health, especially when it comes to physical pain.
Categories: Back Pain, pain clinic, Pain Management, pain treatment, Rehabilitation & Lifestyle, Shoulder Pain, shoulder pain treatment
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Mechanical Pain
If you have stubborn pain in a muscle, joint, nerve or your soft tissues - it’s highly likely to be mechanical pain. Mechanical pain is caused by factors relating to movement. It is the body's way of alerting us when healthy movement patterns are lost within body parts for an extended period of time.
Categories: Back Pain, Knee Pain, Migraine, pain clinic, Pain Management, pain treatment, Rehabilitation & Lifestyle, Shoulder Pain, shoulder pain treatment
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Is My Pain All In My Head?
It can be a little hard to swallow, but one of the most surprising truths about the biology of pain is that pain itself doesn't happen in the body. Pain very much feels like it’s in the body, we can all agree on that, but it doesn’t mean that it is. Sensory perception and scientific truth often don’t line up too neatly.
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The Possibility Of Freedom
On 10 June 1963, U.S. press based in Saigon were informed that 'something important' would happen the following morning on the road outside the Cambodian embassy in Saigon. They were unsettled times, so that in itself was certainly nothing unusual. But what followed created an emotional shock wave that was felt on a global scale.
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When Lower Back Pain is More Than Just Lower Back Pain: 7 Ways Back Pain Can Be Caused By Something Serious
When Lower Back Pain is More Than Just Lower Back Pain: 7 Ways Back Pain Can Be Caused By Something Serious Acute lower back pain is defined as a rapid…
Categories: Back Pain, pain clinic, Pain Management, pain treatment, Rehabilitation & Lifestyle, Uncategorized
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Introduction To Frozen Shoulder Treatment
Introduction To Frozen Shoulder Treatment Frozen shoulder is a horrendously disabling, painful and frustrating complaint. Most people who experience frozen shoulder have been extremely healthy and active their whole lives…
Categories: Bursitis, Neck Pain, pain clinic, Pain Management, pain treatment, Posture, Rehabilitation & Lifestyle, Shoulder Pain, shoulder pain treatment
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Freedom From Frozen Shoulder
Freedom From Frozen Shoulder Frozen shoulder could easily be the most difficult complaint we treat in our clinic. Perhaps along with the worst cases of back pain that have been…
Categories: Bursitis, fascia, pain clinic, Pain Management, pain treatment, Posture, Rehabilitation & Lifestyle, Shoulder Pain, shoulder pain treatment
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