Holistic Doc's Pain Support Blog

neck pain is a metaphor for disagreeable anything, for good reason - tension.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:24:29 GMT

Neck pain can respond well to stretching exercises, plus attention to the teeth, jaw and tension, even if you have cervical spondylosis on x-rays.

Estimation of absolute cardiovascular risk - a valuable exercise

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:23:07 GMT

cardiovascular risk reduction a pathway to generally feeling better now not pie in the sky.

Limb pain - a compilation or maybe a compendium, of causes

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:08:52 GMT

General limb pain by cause, starting with lymphoedema

Skin burns, wounds and ulcers - your treatment guide.

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:59:49 GMT

Immediate first aid for skin burns, wounds, and what to do after that to encourage rapid healing.

New book on Near Death Experiences

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:50:42 GMT

Dr. Jeffrey Long's new book, "Evidence of the Afterlife,The Science of Near-Death Experiences" sounds like a good read.
It's based on many accounts of near death experiences, as was Raymond Moody's 1975 book "Life after life"
Interesting stuff.

Calf pain on walking, the case for wearing high heels.

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:22:36 GMT

Walking, calf pain, stop, pain stops, walk again just as far then repeat the whole deal all over again.

Lactose intolerance - less frequent than commonly believed.

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:38:26 GMT

Lactose intolerance due to malabsorption and fermentation in your colon - good for germs, not you.

Thoracic outlet syndrome? - pain and numbness in little finger?

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:27:09 GMT

Neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome is a very dubious diagnosis, mostly. It's usually the spine joints at fault.

Joint hypermobility - when sorest isn't the stiffest, but alongside it

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:12:29 GMT

A stiff spinal joint puts an extra load on its neighbours, sometimes causing joint hypermobility, which may be the source of your pain. This can also be partly a consequence of treatment.

Chronic pain syndrome following a local injury, needs treatment of the spine.

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:13:30 GMT

Chronic pain syndrome can involve a number of different mechanisms, needing different treatments.

foot pain - tarsal trouble and beyond, to every toe's end

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:56:32 GMT

Foot pain relief - not just a matter of slipping in an insole or putting them up.

Celiac disease - the dark horse of gastroenterology

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:51:30 GMT

Childhood celiac disease - lifelong condition, usually remains undiagnosed lifelong

Opiod medications for non cancer pain

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:56:04 GMT

This is a hot topic at the moment amongst pain doctors, who are split and quite polarized on the issue.
The brain dopamine mechanisms underlying addiction in general, are better understood now, allowing nutritional treatment to help.
If you've got hooked on something in the past or now, try to look ahead to being free if it, in charge of your own life. Seeing a nutritionally oriented practitioner could be a good first step.

Shin pain from medial tibial stress syndrome, anterior compartment syndrome

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:07:25 GMT

Running injuries mainly, shin pain from various tissues unable to cope with continued loads.

Sprained ankle - an old twist on the twisted ankle injury story.

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:34:10 GMT

For sprained ankle, RICE is fine for perhaps half an hour, but then strap it up firmly and walk on it.

Breast pain - referred from muscles, fibrocystic breast disease, but not cancer.

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:38:21 GMT

Your breast pain and tenderness - benign, not breast cancer, and very amenable to treatment of its causes.

anxiety chest pain chemistry and help strategies

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:24:19 GMT

Your anxiety chest pain will have a physical basis as well as chemical and psychological. Sort out these factors to help rid yourself of this problem.

Chest Muscle Pain - diagnosis and treatment methods

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:54:08 GMT

In chest muscle pain, the culprit is often within reach of your fingers. You can seek and deal with a lot of the muscles responsible, producing rapid relief.

Tony Helman's Arbor Clinical Nutrition Updates

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:46:19 GMT

This very good health newsletter is free and well researched. The current number is on selenium and cancer. The Updates are available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Turkish, Russian, Korean and Japanese.

Mouth pain from stomatitis, gingivitis, aphthous ulcers -many causes.

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:26:47 GMT

Mouth pain is more likely to be caused by antibiotic treatment , than a throat infection.

vertebrobasilar insufficiency - rare complication

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:11:16 GMT

vertebrobasilar insufficiency is rare but rebreathing may be a useful first aid measure. Dizziness is common from neck therapy, related to neck proprioception disturbance.

Likely shoulder pain causes from story and self examination

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:14:56 GMT

Assessment of shoulder pain causes requires checking your shoulder, neck and upper back. The cause may also be in the lung or upper abdomen.

Upper back pain is to do with posture,posture,posture.

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:56:45 GMT

Your upper back pain may be referred from your neck, or due to poor workplace ergonomics.

Inflammatory bowel disease -gut immunological mayhem

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:46:45 GMT

Notes on inflammatory bowel disease causes and management.

How to pick cervicogenic headache and treatment options for it.

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:59:16 GMT

A lot of cervicogenic headache can be helped by attention to posture and simple neck stretches. Test yourself for this problem.

knee osteoarthritis treatment options

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:00:38 GMT

Your knee osteoarthritis treatment guide, with comments on common treatments and a few valuable options not commonly considered.

Pelvic pain misery - unnecessary, don't put up with it

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:42:35 GMT

Pelvic pain diagnosis often requires both a gynaecologist and ultrasound specialist with particular interest in this area.

vulva pain at times - think HSV even if you haven't noticed blisters

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:35:21 GMT

Vulva pain causes can be very obvious as in severe thrush, or not at all, as often in HSV

Pain depression, anger and low self esteem - a nasty bit of work.

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:28:50 GMT

Pain depression, worse pain, worse depression - one of a number of vicious cycles in chronic pain. Helping break these is the motivation for this site.

patella femoral syndrome anatomy and exercises

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:24:42 GMT

patella femoral syndrome with pain at the front of the knee, can be improved by stretching the hamstring muscle at the back of your thigh, as well as strengthening the vastus medials.

lumbar spine, lower back exercises are about core stability

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:10:53 GMT

Notes on lumbar spine pain - functional anatomy, characteristics of some of the conditions responsible for this scourge of being upright.

Depression drug treatment of limited value

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:39:03 GMT

University of Pennsylvania researchers report in the Journal of the American Medical Association 2010;303:47-53, antidepressant drugs were only better than dummy treatment, in very severe depression.
This underlines the great importance of having a health professional you really get on well with - This relationship may be more important than anything prescribed.

EMF smog affecting you ?

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:25:26 GMT

Everyone's mobile phone conversations are going straight through us all, and we live in close proximity to increasing numbers of things running on mains ac.
Some people appear to be sensitive to this exposure, and pain is one of the results.

vascular headache distinguished from tension headache by self examination

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:13:31 GMT

Migaine is a vascular headache, mostly involving the superficial temporal artery. Occluding this artery with finger can stop your pain.

gastro-esophageal acid reflux may be due to malnutrition.

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:12:12 GMT

Acid reflux from our stomach can cause esophagitis, even ulceration. The cause is much more complicated than just excessive acid.

A new review of evidence on TENS in chronic pain

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:07:01 GMT

A new review from the American Academy of Neurology concluded that transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation (TENS) is not recommended for use in treating chronic low-back pain but adds that TENS should be considered to treat diabetic neuropathy. "In the highest-quality studies of chronic low back pain, there was no benefit of TENS compared to sham or placebo TENS, (whereas) in diabetic polyneuropathy, some studies showed slight benefit. All but 1 of the studies used in this review, excluded patients with known causes of low-back pain, such as pinched nerves, severe scoliosis, severe spondylolisthesis, or obesity they were studies of ordinary long standing low back pain.

Power Over Pain Action Network

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:07:32 GMT

Pain Connection has joined the American Pain Foundation in a collaborative effort to advocate for a national pain policy, appropriate pain care and public awareness in the Power Over Pain Action Network. Contact www.painfoundation. org and 4107837292.
Stamp Petition Please join the American Pain Foundation and Pain Connection in petitioning the Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee to create a Power Over Pain Commemorative Stamp. Public awareness is needed to address this issue, an invisible health care crisis. Read the full proposal and sign the petition at www.pain-connection.org/php- PETITION/popstamp.php.

Gastritis pain - Helicobactor pylori and gastric acid v. gastric cytoprotection.

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:19:59 GMT

The pathophysiology of gastritis pain commonly involves h pylori infection leading to chronic gastritis, with gastric acid of secondary importance.

Latest news on inhibiting gastric acid with PPIs

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:57:10 GMT

Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are associated with an increased risk of dying in the 2 years after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with drug-eluting stents, according to a study presented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2009.
This is the latest on how smart it is to stop our stomach making acid - not!
It is especially ironical when the problem is the acid not strong enough in the first place.

Much feared cancer pain, fortunately controllable nowdays.

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:21:26 GMT

About Dr. Simoncini and his bicarbonate treatment of cancer and cancer pain.

Your eye pain from obvious eye conditions or sinuses and/or neck.

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:18:11 GMT

Eye pain by structure - lid, conjunctiva, sclera, cornea. Pain from elsewhere - frontal sinus, temporal artery, neck joints and muscles.

Dr. Mercola, warning about vaccine and drug side effects

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:03:19 GMT

(His newsletter reaches 1.5 million subscribers, I understand.)"Im willing to bet that most of these incidents (of toxicity) have not been properly reported to the authorities, and this is something everyone needs to be better informed about." Please know that any time you take a pharmaceutical drug, or are injected with a vaccine of any kind, you need to report any and all side effects to your doctor and insist that he or she report it to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). Ask to get a copy of the report to make sure it was done.

Your thumb pain is very likely coming from your forearm muscles.

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:43:15 GMT

Even with thumb arthritis, thumb pain is likely to be improved immediately by stretching muscles in your forearm.

Surprising health claims for drinking more water

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:07:58 GMT

Thank you to someone on an asthma forum, for putting me onto a book "Water for Health, for Healing, for Life. You're not sick, You're thirsty."
Dr. Batmanghelidj believes this applies to a surprisingly large range of conditions, including painful ones, inflammatory ones and chronic degenerative diseases.
A few extra glasses of water a day is not much trouble, so I reckon it's worth anyone with normal kidney and heart function, giving it a go.

musculoskeletal chest pain -examining your muscles

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:33:23 GMT

How to find the specific muscles responsible for your musculoskeletal chest pain

Our sacroiliac joint, suspended in our pelvic girdle, solid and safe - mostly.

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:19:25 GMT

The large sacroiliac joints have very limited movement anytime, and most of what goes wrong reduces this further.

arthritis knee pain and osteoarthritis as a possible cause

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:45:40 GMT

X-ray proven osteoarthritis in your knee may be the source of your pain. Arthritis knee pain is common, and usefull treatments other than drugs are available.

Irritable bowel syndrome - functional , manageable, not a problem mostly

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:47:58 GMT

Irritable bowel syndrome, leftovers after going through the diagnostic merry-go-round.

Holistic-doc-pain-support.com.arthritis knee pain, chest pain and more

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:04:51 GMT

Identifying the precise source of a pain can be difficult. Our brain is often unable to tell us.Learn how to interpret it correctly and respond so as to avoid it becoming chronic.We will look at self

Never give up

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:02:49 GMT

One can work on overcoming fear and anxiety, and at the same time keep looking for answers.

In this regard, always have your spine checked, by someone trained in this art/scientific discipline - both are needed.
Virtually every painful condition can be aggravated or modified by co-existing mechanical spinal derangements.
To start to learn how to check someone's spine, see the upper and lower back pain pages.

Very best wishes.
Jim Rose