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‘Tis the season for firing up the lawnmower, breaking out the hedge trimmers and playing in the dirt. But any fool knows that a day in the yard can equal a day on the couch…in pain.
When the aches and pains of bending, walking, twisting, etc start working […]
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Phantom pain felt by amputees in their missing limbs is nothing new. This bizarre phenomenon has been around since at least the Civil War era. But as the U.S. marks its fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq, we are finally seeing the emergence of a new and very unlikely source of phantom pain therapy: […]
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Next time you find yourself with a needle barreling toward any one of your body parts, revert back to your toddler days and begin counting out loud to anyone who will listen. And why is that? Because Japanese researchers were good enough to find that counting may effectively numb you to injection pain. (I […]
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Guys, if you think PMS is the worst thing about your lady’s “monthly visitor”, we have news for you, don’t we girls? Yep, underneath the exterior of our once-a-month bitchy wrath lies a whole other issue that you may not even know about…cramps.
As if it’s not bad enough we have to endure a week […]
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If you’re susceptible to headaches, you know all too well how miserable they can be. Therefore, you do your best to avoid your likely triggers (which can include everything from caffeine, stress, eye strain, PMS and more). But, alas, there are still times when you’re blind-sided with an ‘ache even though you’ve done everything right. […]
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No doubt there are plenty of us experiencing the pains of a New Year’s hangover right about now (see remedies below). But sometimes our aches are of the chronic variety and are far less manageable than any headache brought on by our own debauchery. So, when pain starts to control us rather than us […]
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