New research into back pain shows that yoga can have a big impact on reducing pain and helping those that struggle with this to live a higher quality of life as a result. And the research shows that it doesn’t have to be … [Read more...]
Treating Chronic Back Pain in the Brain
A new study looks at the relationship between chronic back pain and the brain. The researchers believe that this information can help reduce the amount of pain that those struggling with pain experience, effectively helping them to live a … [Read more...]
Fighting Back Pain in Seniors
Back pain is one of the biggest factors when it comes to chronic pain. It is estimated that the global number of people that suffer from chronic back pain is around 540 million. This is a staggeringly large number, and it’s one that points … [Read more...]
What is Cognitive Functional Therapy?
Recently, I published an article about the importance of research and how research is one of the driving factors that helps to improve treatment and care for everyone–including seniors and their care. In that blog, Cognitive Functional … [Read more...]
Why Research is Important For Treatment
You’ve probably noticed that I like to post a lot of blogs that pertain to advances in research that pertain to senior citizens and senior health. Sometimes, the connections here are pretty obvious, but other times the findings of the … [Read more...]
Fighting Lower Back Pain
Lower back pain is one of the most common types of chronic pain that the elderly face, and it’s also one of the hardest to fight types of pain out there. Oftentimes, doctors are at a loss for why their patient is suffering from this pin and … [Read more...]
Possible Solution to Back Pain Found
Chronic back pain is one of those things that many senior citizens struggle with, yet there’s very little that doctors have been able to do much about. Medications like opioids have been prescribed, but these can often have far worse side … [Read more...]
Massage Might Help Those with Chronic Back Pain
Last week, we looked at what a complementary health approach included, and whether or not it might be helpful. Today, we are going to a brief look at a specific complementary health approach and show how it may add benefit to some people’s … [Read more...]
Personalized Physical Therapy Brings Better Results
Lower back pain is one of those things that researchers don’t know much about, and this has made it almost impossible to treat. Current studies indicate that even the use of opioids to try to manage this pain are ineffective, and because of … [Read more...]
Yoga is Associated with Back Pain Relief
Chronic back pain is one of the most prevalent and most difficult to treat medical conditions within the elderly. The issue has led to the use and abuse of medications meant to help, like opioids, which often have an even worse impact upon … [Read more...]
Seniors and Back Pain
Many senior citizens face back pain. Back pain is often a precursor of disability, and many long term care insurance policies will automatically disqualify people for qualifying if they do have chronic back pain since it increases the … [Read more...]
