Back pain Arthritis and other joint problems Headaches Lyme disease Nerve damage Acid reflux or ulcers Sleep disordersTAILORED TREATMENT: At The Kusnacht Practice, our all-encompassing, kind and empathetic approach employs an holistic, 360 degree chronic pain recovery plan. We will have successfully tr...
Chronic knee pain has a number of causes, including trauma and arthritis. It can cause inflammation and pain, and affect your mobility and independence. elenaleonova / Getty Images What Causes Chronic Knee Pain? Knee pain affects around 25% of adults, and its prevalence has increased over 65%...
Chronic neck pain is often caused by a joint or disc problem in the neck. Any of the following can cause neck pain:Stenosis (narrowing) of your spinal column, or degeneration (breakdown) or inflammation of the discs in your neck Inflammation from a condition such as rheumatoid arthritis, ...
Pain is such a complex and subjective experience, and the word “pain” covers a whole host of very different experiences. It gets even more complicated when you’re talking about chronic pain or illness. It’s not like a bruise or a broken bone that you can easily point to and say, ...
Acupuncture for the treatment of pain of osteoarthritic knees. Arthritis Care Res. 1994;7(3):118-1227727550PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 79. Tukmachi E, Jubb R, Dempsey E, Jones P. The effect of acupuncture on the symptoms of knee osteoarthritis: an open randomised controlled study. ...
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Affecting one in five people, chronic pain is a complex, multifactorial condition that is challenging for both patients and clinicians. Prevailing pain management, which includes NSAIDS and opioids, has not adequately addressed the growing cohort of those suffering and comes with serious side effects...
Bioelectric therapy can be used to treat many chronic and acute conditions causing pain, such as back pain, muscle pain, headaches and migraines, arthritis,TMJ disorder, diabetic neuropathy, and scleroderma. Bioelectric therapy is effective in providing temporary pain control, but it should be used...
Importantly, the distinction between nociceptive and nociplastic pain is not always well-defined as patients may have a combination of both types of pain [7]. Pain is an important symptom of joint and musculoskeletal disorders that contributes to loss of function. As such, it is indicative of ...
Evaluation for suspected inflammatory arthritis as a cause for chronic extremity joint pain often relies on imaging. This review first discusses the characteristic osseous and soft tissue abnormalities seen with inflammatory arthritis and how they may be imaged. It is essential that imaging results are...