The Pain Brain Sometimes you’ve got to ask wonder where is it going to stop with fibromyalgia (FM) and the brain? Reductions in the volume of “gray matter” (the neuronal cell bodies and glial cells as opposed to the long nerve fibers) have been found...
Deja Vu? “I just try and not think about it, because it gets me furious” multiple sclerosis patient The story sounds eerily similar. Citing questions regarding study quality and side effects, the FDA refuses to approve a drug for a condition for which few...
“the present findings offer clinical implications that may serve to guide future studies of the pathophysiology and management of a variety of persistent pain conditions.” Loggia et. al. Chronic pain was thought for many years to be mostly a neuronal problem. Over or...
Into the Big Leagues Low dose naltrexone (LDN) is able to do for some people with intractable pain what opioids and other drugs can’t do – reduce the pain. Those drugs have something LDN doesn’t, however, – FDA approval. You can’t prove that LDN works,...
It’s no secret. The medical profession is lousy at treating chronic pain. Some doctors and researchers think there’s a better way, however, and at a recent Symposium they strongly urged the medical profession to get out of its rut – and give immune...
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