Research demonstrates regular meditation can help reduce pain. For the first time, this study identified the mechanism to explain how meditation works to alleviate pain. It involves natural stimulation of opioid pathways in the body mediating analgesic effects and increasing resilience through regular practice. Sharon H, Maron-Katz A, Ben Simon E, Flusser Y, Hendler T, […]
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Acupuncture – needle or laser [painless]. Acupuncture can help reduce acute and chronic pain. An acupuncture trial held at a Melbourne hospital emergency department demonstrated acupuncture helped reduce low back & ankle sprain pain, and was equally effective to drug therapy. Marc M Cohen, De Villiers Smit, Nick Andrianopoulos, Michael Ben-Meir, David McD Taylor, Shefton […]
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Physical activity & exercise can improve pain severity & physical function, and consequent quality of life. Geneen LJ, Moore RA, Clarke C, Martin D, Colvin LA, Smith BH. Physical activity and exercise for chronic pain in adults: an overview of Cochrane Reviews. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2017 Jan 14;1:CD011279. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD011279.pub2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28087891
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