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Genetics Underpinning Chronic Pain Worked Out

Plastic Logic 100 Tablet Educates People With Shatterproof electronic textbook is intended for educators and students One may have built a sort of standard image for what any tablet device is supposed to look like and be able to do, but Plastic Logic revealed something that doesn't quite qualify as one, nor...

12 September 2011
09:18 GMT

Yoga Reduces Chronic Pain in Female Fibromyalgia Patients

According to the conclusions of a new scientific research, it would appear that female patients who have been diagnosed with a disease called fibromyalgia experience a reduction in their chronic pain levels if they practice yoga. This form of exercise can apparently quell some of the pain that constantly haunts these...

28 July 2011
10:07 GMT

'Standard' Vocabulary of Pain Under Development

In an effort to facilitate communication between patients who are in chronic pains and their physicians and healthcare providers, a team of experts is currently working on developing a common vocabulary for describing pain. The tool will help patients better relate their actual condition. At the same time, it will en...

28 July 2011
09:44 GMT

Removing Back Pain Heals the Brain Too

According to the conclusions of a new study, it would appear that eliminating chronic back pain has a number of health benefits, in addition to making it easier for people to put up with their condition. Experts say that the brain itself displays less abnormalities as pain is removed. Being constantly subjected t...

18 May 2011
02:58 GMT

Why Meditation Reduced Chronic Pain

A recent investigation conducted by researchers in the United States finally reveals a possible explanation for why practicing meditation helps those suffering from chronic pain experience a diminishing of their symptoms. The correlation was observed in numerous studies, but thus far experts could not pinpoint the ex...

5 May 2011
08:31 GMT

Chronic Pain Improved by Cannabis Smoking

A new research published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal – CMAJ, says that for people who suffer from chronic pain, smoking cannabis helps improve mood, reduces pain and improves sleep.The research was carried out by a team of researchers from McGill University Health Center (MUHC) and McGill Univer...

30 August 2010
06:53 GMT

Marijuana May Actually Prolong Pain

Marijuana has over recent years been advocated as one of the ways people suffering from chronic diseases could keep their pain under control, and has as such been prescribed by doctors to their patients. But a new scientific study comes to show that a class of chemicals found in cannabinoids, the active ingredient in...

14 August 2009
08:50 GMT

Video Games VS Painkillers

You'd never believe it but the video games eventually proved to be more analgesic than drugs. A study carried out by Diane Gromala, associate professor at SFU's School of Interactive Arts and Technology has revealed that "subjects who are distracted in fully immersive virtual reality (VR) environments feel ...

8 January 2008
08:14 GMT


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