Pain

Mayo Clinic Publishes Data on Complementary Health Approaches to Pain

By |September 5th, 2016|

This new data review gives primary care providers — who frequently see patients with chronic pain — tools to inform decision-making on how to help manage pain.
Primary care providers have lacked a robust evidence base to guide recommendations on complementary approaches as practiced and available in the United States:
Data from a review of U.S.-based […]

Virtual Reality Stanford University Pilot Studies on Pain

By |August 31st, 2016|

“Pain is our harm alarm and it does a really good job of getting our attention,” said Beth Darnall, a clinical associate professor at Stanford Health Care’s division of pain medicine. She says:
Virtual Reality is a psychological tool, like meditation, that can “calm the nervous system, and that dampens the pain processing.”
Read Pilot Studies from […]