Certain spinal surgery found to have no real effect
In a strange story that has run for the last 19 years, spinal surgeries for fractures appear to have no more effect than a placebo. Researchers from across the globe have been creating studies to determine if vertebroplasty has any real benefit to patients. The reasoning behind the studies is that virtually all patients who [...]
FDA may ban key pain killers
The FDA has determined that Tylenol enhancing pain killers are dangerous enough to be pulled from the market. Drugs including Vicodin, Hydrocodone, Lortab, Maxidone, Norco, Zydone, Tylenol with codeine, Percocet, Endocet, Darvocet may be permanently banned from the US market, even if the patient has a prescription fro a doctor.The problem is the key ingredient [...]
Pfizer offers drugs to those that have lost their jobs
Pfizer has created a program for those that have lost their jobs and health insurance to access medications for free. The program allows these individuals to continue their regimen for up to a year to allow the patient to get back to work and insurance. Over 70 Pfizer medications are covered by this plan, including [...]
Chinese stem cell therapy still very dangerous
Some of the disabled believe that there are treatments available overseas that can cure brain cancer or spinal cord damage. They believe that the FDA keeps usable techniques down so that pill companies can keep making billions off of the suffering of the few. But it has been shown that the vast majority of stem [...]
Study shows chronic pain is treatable with acupuncture
A group of 638 people that complained to have chronic back pain were split into two different groups. The first group was given acupuncture treatment at 6 weeks, 3 months, 6 months, and finally for the year. The second group was given pokes in the arm with a toothpick and told that it was a [...]
Website to help those in pain
We have found an excellent site to help those in chronic pain. The site is http://www.painaction.com. They have many self help session to help with the mental side of chronic pain. Most times pain medications do little to stop or control this type of pain that can gnaw at you in ways the sufferer does [...]
Naltrexone found to relieve chronic pain
A study at Stanford on fibromyalgia patients has found that naltrexone to be very effective in reducing chronic pain. In the double blind study, the drug was found to be effective by an average of 30% over a placebo. This test was only done on women over a 14 week period, but shows great promise [...]
Chronic pain reorganizes brain
Northwestern University has finished a study that shows brains involved with chronic pain are more likely to have depression and other cognitive declines. Cognitive and emotional functions appear to be negatively affected by chronic pain creating an atrophy in cells that are repeatedly forced to send pain comands over and over. This is the first [...]
Chronic pain suffers pulled over by traffic cops?
Canada.com has a letter that asks how suffers of chronic pain will be protected if they are pulled over by the police. Routine traffic stops are usually a minor problem but if the police start to shake down those that take controlled pain killers we could have a problem. We all want to make sure [...]
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