Part 1: How to Manage Pain Using Nutrition

Can what we eat influence our level of perceived pain? Does food play a role in the development or management of chronic pain conditions? This is Part 1 of a two-part blog that explores the relationship between diet and chronic pain. With escalating rates of obesity, ill health, and disease in the United States,  studies […]

Could the Mediterranean Diet Have Benefits for Osteoarthritic Pain?

As healthcare professionals have long known, the Mediterranean diet has consistently been shown to have beneficial effects on musculoskeletal, cardiovascular,  metabolic, and cognitive diseases, but can it also be associated with a lower prevalence of osteoarthritis of the knee? Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most prevalent joint disease and a leading source of chronic pain and […]

Eating Right to Heal Chronic Pain: Nutrition Guidance in Physical Therapy Practice

It’s 9 am and your patient just arrived at her first physical therapy session for chronic knee pain. She is a heavy but active woman. As she checks-in, she sets aside a 32 oz. soda cup and you realize that it will take more than some range of motion and resistance exercises to alleviate her […]

Natural Options for Managing Chronic Pain Without Opioids

Are you one of the millions who currently rely on opioids for pain relief? Chronic pain affects millions in the United States and both patients and practitioners often believe the only viable treatment is medication such as opioid painkillers. There are alternatives. What you may not realize is the effect that your thoughts play on […]

How the Power of the Mind is More Effective Than Pills

You suffer from chronic pain and you don’t understand it. It came out of the blue and now you face a lifetime with an incurable burden. You may find your self-esteem affected, your friends and loved ones struggling to understand your pain and help you when they feel helpless. How can you find the relief you […]

The Unseen Burden of Chronic Pain on Intimate Relationships

For better or for worse, in sickness and in health. When you fell in love and recited your vows did you imagine chronic pain would injure your relationship? Chronic pain affects 1 in 4 Americans. That means you may know someone who suffers from it. It could be your friend, your parent or your partner. […]