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Creative arts therapies (CATs) can improve anxiety, depression, pain symptoms and quality of life among cancer patients, although the effect was reduced during follow-up in a study by Timothy W. Puetz, Ph.D., M.P.H., of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., and colleagues. Authors reviewed the available medical literature and included 27 studies involving 1,576 patients. Researchers found that during treatment, CAT significantly reduced anxiety, depression and pain, and...

Ohio Brain Injury Lawyer David Chester, Chester Law Group, announces the publication of a series of articles on Pain Management for Accident Victims. These very informative articles can be viewed on the Chester Law website. Akron, Ohio (PRWEB) May 10, 2013 Many times serious car, truck, or motorcycle accidents result in victims experiencing some type of severe pain and this pain can possibly even last a lifetime. Pain specialists understand how the nervous system, including spinal cord,...

Learn what can be done to help improve quality of life while reducing levels of pain drastically with tips from Noxicare™ Natural Pain Relief Washington, District of Columbia (PRWEB) May 06, 2013 In today's stressful world, it's hard to find the time to deal with pain. Instead, some may try to work through migraine headaches, or hope chronic pain will go away with a few aspirin or ibuprofen tablets. What is sometimes not realized, however, is that these pills can take a toll on...

Find out Why--and What to Do About the Pain STATESVILLE, N.C., May 2, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- The Institute for Preventive Foot Health (IPFH) urges seniors with foot pain to use its Foot Pain Self-Assessment Tool during World Foot Health Awareness Month (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130502/CG06282) May is World Foot Health Awareness Month, and in support of the initiative, which this year targets seniors, the Institute for Preventive Foot Health (IPFH) has...

Have Vaginal Mesh Complication? Read this article by Dr. Greg Vigna on Myofascial pelvic pain NEW YORK, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- There is little help in the way of literature that provides guidance to women who suffer from chronic pelvic pain. Not only is the literature sparse, it is inaccurate. Most literature on pelvic pain, in fact, pays little attention to the nerves in the pelvis. From my review of the literature, most articles completely ignore the pelvic nerves as...

Anchoring and multiple lead placement Two innovative techniques in the placement of an implanted spinal cord stimulator (SCS) are expected to reduce common complications at the implant site, according to new research revealed today. Results from a case series highlighted an advanced lead anchoring technique and the emerging technology of using large single-port introducers, which enable placement of multiple neurostimulation leads through a single needle-entry point. Neurostimulation...

Returning veterans with major limb injuries Veterans who sustained major limb injuries during combat reported little improvement in symptoms of depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health problems up to 2 years post injury, according to research presented today. In contrast, pain showed the most improvement 3-6 months after acute hospitalization, and then leveled off after 1 year. The investigative team, led by Rollin M. Gallagher, MD, MPH, reported...

World's First and Only System with Illumina 3D(TM) Software and 32 Contacts is Designed to Provide Pain Relief to a Broad Spectrum of Chronic Pain Patients NATICK, Mass., April 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) has received approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and is beginning a limited launch of the Precision Spectra Spinal Cord Stimulator (SCS) System. The Precision Spectra System is the world's first and only SCS system with Illumina...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Physicians are often concerned about pain their patients may be experiencing, but without a way to quantify it, the experience of pain can be somewhat subjective and abstract. According to a new report in The New England Journal of Medicine, a group of American researchers has set out to determine how much pain a person is experiencing by looking at the brain’s reaction to it. Using Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI),...

University of North Carolina Health Care A study from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine offers new insights into how the nervous system processes hot and cold temperatures. The research led by neuroscientist Mark J. Zylka, PhD, associate professor of cell biology and physiology, found an interaction between the neural circuits that detect hot and cold stimuli: cold perception is enhanced when nerve circuitry for heat is inactivated. "This discovery has implications for...