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NEW YORK, Nov. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Tom Chi, The Pain Whisperer, Is Highly Regarded Among the Medical Community, Hollywood Celebrities and Patients Battling Pain Symptoms for Decades. He is uniquely known for curing patients with difficult and chronic pain problems even after years of therapy and failed surgeries. He tells us that Surgery is the wrong answer for Derek Hough's neck pain because herniations are caused by injured muscles in the neck which pull the vertebrae too...
Beaverton Hot Tub Dealer Publishes Guide to Educate The Public on the Merits of Physical Therapy and Hydrotherapy to Help People Improve Their Physical Health and Well-Being. Beaverton, OR (PRWEB) October 19, 2012 This October, health care practitioners and care givers are excited to celebrate National Physical Therapy Month. In appreciation of all the hard work and dedicated help therapists contribute, now is the perfect time to highlight the important role physical therapy plays in...
Dr. Patrick W. Hogan of Arizona Pain Specialists, the premier pain management clinic in Glendale, AZ. received the prestigious 2012 Patients’ Choice Award. This award is based on excellent patient reviews and near perfect scores from online patient voters. Glendale, AZ (PRWEB) October 15, 2012 Dr. Patrick W. Hogan, D.O., double-board certified interventional pain physician and anesthesiologist at Arizona Pain Specialists (http://www.arizonapain.com), has received a Patients’ Choice...
Companionship has the potential to reduce pain linked to nerve damage, according to a new study. Mice that were paired with a cage-mate showed lower pain responses and fewer signs of inflammation in their nervous system after undergoing surgery that affected their nerves than did isolated mice, suggesting that the social contact had both behavioral and physiological influences. The social contact lowered the pain response and signs of inflammation even in animals that had experienced...
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Nektar Therapeutics (Nasdaq: NKTR) today announced that preclinical data for NKTR-171, a new investigational drug candidate to treat neuropathic pain, was presented at the 41(st) Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience: Neuroscience 2012. NKTR-171 is a novel sodium channel blocker designed to act in the periphery in order to treat neuropathic pain while avoiding the serious central nervous system (CNS) side effects associated with...
Initiative promotes better visceral pain management through increased awareness SEATTLE, Oct. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Global Year Against Visceral Pain launches today, bringing global attention to pain that originates in or near the internal organs of the body. Visceral pain is the most frequent form of pain, felt by most people at one time or another, and the number one reason for patients to seek medical attention. Sponsored by the International Association for...
NEW YORK, Oct. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Occupy NY Hospitals Movement began just three weeks ago and has already struck at NY Columbia Presbyterian where patients emerged and said they had gone for years of therapy and surgeries without getting better. This according to what some are calling the Jedi Knight of pain treatment, though he prefers the gentler sounding The Pain Whisperer. Dr. Tom Chi is a specialist at The Pain Therapy Institute where for 30 years he has used a unique...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Prospira PainCare today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to purchase Bay Area Pain & Wellness Center ("BAPWC"), a leading pain management physician practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. The acquisition of BAPWC follows a similar transaction consummated in August in which Prospira PainCare acquired The Spine Center of Southeast Georgia ("SCSG"), a comprehensive neurosurgery and pain management practice located...
U.S. Department of Defense funds SPR's device therapy for post-amputation pain CLEVELAND, Oct. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- SPR Therapeutics and NDI Medical, its parent company, have received a $2.77 Million Peer Reviewed Orthopaedic Research Program Clinical Trial Award to advance SPR's peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) therapy to relieve post-amputation pain. The research grant is from the U.S. Department of Defense office of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Most of us suffer from lower back pain at some point in our lives. Good posture and sitting up straight might help, but depending on your genes, they may not. A new study, published in the Annals of Rheumatic Diseases, says that your genes, specifically the Park2 gene, play a key role in lumber disc degeneration (LDD). LDD has long been thought to be the number one cause of chronic back pain. With LDD, the discs in your back,...
