New app helps patients relieve back pain
Photo Cred: Yura Fresh/Unsplash By Katherine Shagoury Researchers have developed a new app, selfBACK, a solution that could enable more people to deal with back pain in a better way,...
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NCCAOM CEO discusses trends in acupuncture, integrating in medical teams
Photo Cred: Ryutaro Tsukata/Pexels By Bill Reddy, LAc, DiplAc Mina Larson, MS, MBA, CAE, chief executive officer (CEO) of the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM), has...
Read MoreInterdisciplinary approach to preventing and treating pain
Photo Cred: Katherine Hanlon/Unsplash By Katherine Shagoury Chronic pain is a major health problem and disease in its own right, said Mylene Huynh, MD, MPH, FAAFP, IFMCP, at the 2021...
Read MoreHouse reintroduces bill expanding chiropractic coverage
Photo Cred: Ryutaro Tsukata/Pexels By Katherine Shagoury Bipartisan legislation to modernize Medicare coverage of chiropractic services was reintroduced last month in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Chiropractic Medicare Coverage Modernization...
Read MoreBack pain associated with increased mortality risk in women, study finds
Photo Cred: Karolina Grabowska/Pexels By Katherine Shagoury New research from Boston Medical Center published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine identified elevated mortality risk for women with back pain when...
Read MoreExercise helps support patients with lasting COVID-19 symptoms, study says
Photo Cred: Karolina Grabowska/Pexels By Katherine Shagoury Patients with lasting novel coronavirus (COVID-19) symptoms who completed a six-week, supervised rehabilitation program demonstrated significant improvements in exercise capacity, respiratory symptoms, fatigue,...
Read MoreStudy offers new insights on COVID-19 inflammation
Photo Cred: Karolina Grabowska/Pexels By Katherine Shagoury Different markers in the blood clearly differentiate excessive inflammation in critical novel coronavirus (COVID-19) from cytokine storm syndromes, according to a new study...
Read MoreVirtual reality potential pain management strategy for nerve injuries
Photo Cred: Bradley Hook/Pexels By Katherine Shagoury Virtual reality may reduce types of pain typically seen in patients with nerve injuries and could boost the dysfunctional pain suppression system, according...
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