Conservative Care for Knee Osteoarthritis
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This post gives a brief overview of non-pharmacological pain management strategies for osteoarthritis related knee pain.
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Get headaches? Here’s five things to eat or avoid
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"Headaches are really common, so here are five things the research evidence indicates are worth trying to help manage or avoid them."
Read MoreMassage Therapy Research
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Massage therapy is a non-pharmacological therapeutic intervention that is simple to carry out, economical, and has very few side effects.
If you are not yet aware of the growing body of evidence to support the work that we do, here is a list of systematic reviews and clinical guidelines that lend credibility to massage therapy.
Read MoreEmergency doctors are using acupuncture to treat pain, now here’s the evidence
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Emergency medicine is not all about life and death situations and high-tech solutions. Our study, the largest of its kind in the world, shows using acupuncture in the emergency department can relieve acute pain.
The study, published today in the Medical Journal of Australia, finds acupuncture is as effective as medication in treating pain for lower back pain and ankle sprain. But it took more than an hour for either to provide adequate pain relief."
Read MoreUpdated Post: Massage Therapy and Sport Related Aches
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Due to doping regulations, athletes have strict restrictions of what they can put in their bodies, so naturally they look for alternative ways to ease the pain of overexertion.
For sports injuries, massage therapy has been shown to be a safe, non-pharmacological therapeutic intervention that is simple to carry out, economical, and has very few side effects.
Read MoreRub on pain products – what you need to know
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"There may be something in the idea that rubbing a painful area might actually help. We rub the skin over a painful area almost instinctively. Touch applied at particular frequency can be pleasant. And while there is research that shows that it might help, it is a big jump to demonstrate that rubbing alone is a useful treatment for pain if that pain is moderate or severe."
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