Natural Pain Relief Options for Fibromyalgia
Many of the 10 million Americans suffering from widespread muscle pain due to fibromyalgia look for non-prescriptions options for pain...
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Fibromyalgia Pain Toolkit: The Topicals
Fibromyalgia can throw a lot of different types of pain at us—aching joints and muscles, burning nerves, trigger points, and more. We...
Fibromyalgia Pain Toolkit: The Tools
Fibromyalgia can throw a lot of different types of pain at us—aching joints and muscles, burning nerves, trigger points, and more. We...
Lessons Learned on Combining Opioids and LDN for Fibromyalgia
The typical recommendation has always been to only prescribe low dose naltrexone (LDN), an opiate blocker that acts in the brain to lower...
Read This Before You Try Kratom for Pain
Partly due to lack of access to effective pain medications, many people with chronic pain and fibromyalgia turn to over-the-counter...
Myofascial Release Therapy for Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia pain stems from inflamed and stuck fascia, the connective tissue that runs like a three-dimensional web throughout the body....
Real Science on Cannabis for Fibromyalgia
Many patients with fibromyalgia report benefit from cannabis (medical marijuana), but until recently we did not have the studies to...
Herbal Analgesics Part 1: The Poppy Family
Opium Poppy Papaver somniferum First and foremost on the list of herbs that relieve pain is the opium poppy which contains powerful...
Herbal Analgesics Part 2: Kratom and Cannabis
Kratom Mitragyna speciosa Let me start talking about kratom by clarifying that I am not against it (my prior blogs and videos on this...
Herbal Analgesics Part 3: Anti-inflammatories
Inflammation (immune system activation) plays a big role in causing certain types of pain, especially arthritis and joint pain. This is...
Herbs to Lessen Opioid Withdrawal
Opioids are important, but imperfect, tools to manage chronic pain. Part of their imperfection is due to physical dependence with chronic...
An Epidemic of Undertreated Chronic Pain
I was relieved to to read the headline “A Mea Culpa on CDC Opioid Guideline” in Pain Medicine News. Mea Culpa means a formal...
The hysteria around opioids for chronic pain is not addressing the underlying problems
This article is not meant to minimize the dangers of opioids, whether prescribed or obtained illicitly. All opioids have a risk of...
Pilates for Fibromyalgia
Before I tried Pilates for myself I had always thought of it as a fibro-unfriendly form of exercise since several of my patients had...
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