Which Medication Will Be Effective For Your Pain Management
Did you know that 76.2 million people have pain according to the National Centers for Health Statistics The severity of pain varies greatly and in many cases the use of aspirin; ibuprofen or some other over-the-counter pain relief medication will suffice. In a number of cases people will get relief from massage, therapy, a chiropractic adjustment or even the use of herbs known to relieve pain like White Willow Bark.
There are a number of cases however that the pain goes far beyond the normal recovery period for an illness or injury. Sometimes pain even occurs without any injury or known disease and lasts a long period of time. This is what is known as chronic pain and is when consideration should be given to a stronger pain management medication.
read moreInfrared Light Therapy For Pain Management – The Gut Says it Works, But Proceed With Caution
I recently started doing research for an article on beneficial use of infrared light therapy for pain management. Per the usual approach, I started by looking for studies to validate that it worked or did not work. After about three hours of sifting through abstracts on studies associated with infrared, laser, bright, red, blue and a combination of red and blue light therapies for pain management, I came to several conclusions
Most of the unsubstantiated data found, suggests that it works for pain management in humans. There are few concise studies associated with humans, that I could find, that would validate the benefit of light therapy for pain management (they may be out there and I was looking in the wrong directories or journals).
There has been some contractor research completed by NASA for using light therapy in space for pain management. It was tough to find substantiated data on the results of those studies. You do get the impression by reading the periphery of the NASA studies that light therapy is used in space (I would expect the space station) on humans with success.