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Looking Away As You Get Needle Does Lower Pain, Study Shows
THURSDAY, May 17, 2012 (HealthDay News) — Averting your eyes when you’re receiving a shot really may help reduce discomfort, new research suggests. The study, published in the May issue of the journal...
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Alternative Approaches to Joint Pain Relief
Over the years, people have turned to a wide variety of remedies to cope with the frustrating problem of joint pain. The choices are many, because joint pain has been around for many centuries and...
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14 Foods that Fight Inflammation and Pain
Michelle Schoffro Cook August 25, 2012 Some of the best healing remedies to overcome inflammation also taste fabulous (I can’t say that about any prescription medications). Plus, foods won’t cause the...
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Acupuncture Works, One Way Or Another
September 11, 2012 | By Amanda Gardner Many people with chronic pain swear by acupuncture, but skeptics of the ancient needle-based treatment have long claimed that it’s little more than an elaborate...
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More Sleep May Help Some People Feel Less Pain
By Denise Mann WebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD Dec. 1, 2012 - Not getting enough sleep? Some extra Zzzs each night may improve more than just your daytime alertness. New research shows...
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Health benefits of music
Written by Adam Ramsay, health journalist Music has a special power to move us and stir our emotions. Anyone who has ever wiped tears away from their eyes listening to their favourite sad song will...
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20 Pain Killers in your Kitchen
A GREAT ALTERNATIVE TO TAKING MEDICATION 20 Painkillers in Your Kitchen Make muscle pain a memory with ginger When Danish researchers asked achy people to jazz up their diets with ginger, it eased...
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10 Reasons Why We Need at Least 8 Hugs a Day
BY MARCUS JULIAN FELICETTI AUGUST 10, 2012 Hugging therapy is definitely a powerful way of healing. Research shows that hugging (and also laughter) is extremely effective at healing sickness,...
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Ginger is Better than Drugs for Pain, says Study
Michelle Schoffro Cook May 3, 2013 A new study published in the journal Arthritis compared ginger extract to the common drugs betamethasone (cortisone) and ibuprofen for the treatment of...
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Singing, Dancing and Drumming Really Do Get You High
By Juliette Siegfried Have you ever seen people singing, dancing, and drumming at a rock concert or a rave or techno party and thought, “These people must be high on drugs?” Well, as it turns out, they...
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The Spoon Theory
by Christine Miserandino My best friend and I were in the diner, talking. As usual, it was very late and we were eating French fries with gravy. Like normal girls our age, we spent a lot of time in the...
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Should you take Tylenol, Advil, or aspirin for pain? Here’s what the evidence...
by Julia Belluz August 18, 2015 @juliaoftoronto julia.belluz@voxmedia.com What’s the difference between Tylenol, Advil, and aspirin? Which is the best to take for pain? I used to take...
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Fun Fact Friday
Studies show that the walking through a doorway causes memory lapses, which is why we walk into another room, only to forget why we did. A man named Walter Summerford was struck by lightning 3 times...
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Fun Fact Friday
Alexithymia describes a person who has a difficult time expressing their feelings to others. Having a large amount of hair on your body is linked to having higher intelligence. Kissing is good for...
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Fun Fact Friday
Human bones are 31% water. Deja Vu occurs when your brain tries to apply a memory of a past situation to your current one, fails, and makes you feel like it has happened. Women have twice as many pain...
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More Sleep Can Lead To Less Chronic Pain: Study
A new animal study, published in the journal Nature Medicine, suggests that sleeping more and drinking coffee rather than taking analgesics can help reduce the intensity of chronic pain. Chronic pain...
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Fun Fact Friday
People who speak two languages, may unconsciously change their personality when they switch languages. Cuddling has the same effect on your brain as taking painkillers. Your mind spends about 70% of...
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Poor Sleep Associated With Higher Risk Of Chronic Pain
(Reuters Health) – People who sleep poorly may be more likely to develop a chronic pain condition and have worse physical health, a study from the UK suggests. A general decline in both the quantity...
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Fun Fact Friday
Simply looking at a photo of someone you love can help relieve pain. Scientists usually omit left-handed people from tests because their brain works differently. Pretending you don’t have feelings...
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Can Marijuana Be The Answer For Pain?
Like many of her friends, Alexandra Callner, now 58, experimented with recreational marijuana when she was younger. “I had tried it, and hated it, in my 20s,” Callner says. “When I was around pot...
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