Discover Your Most Effective Fibromyalgia Treatment By: Dana Walters, RN, MBA For over a decade I have lived with fibromyalgia, so I encourage alternative pain treatments as most fibromyalgia research is based on treating symptoms with medications that have long term side effects. It is important to take charge of your own pain and [...]
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Thu, June 17 2010 » Research » Comments Off
Ruling Out Possible Vitamin D Deficiency Reasons for Pain By Dana Walters, RN, MBA Studies Regarding Vitamin D for Chronic Pain Resolution My brother and his wife take high levels of Vitamin D under medical supervision. My brother’s wife stated that pain so common in fibromyalgia (where you hit the floor with your feet hurting) [...]
Tags: 25(OH) D Deficiency, chronic pain, Neuromuscular Pain, Osteomalacia, The Role of Vitamin D Deficiency in Chronic Pain, Vitamin D, Vitamin D blood level testing, Vitamin D Underlying Some Pain Issues
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Thu, February 25 2010 » Research » Comments Off
PubMed Exp Biol Med (Maywood). 2003 Jun;228(6):724-9 Promotive effects of far-infrared ray on full-thickness skin wound healing in rats. Toyokawa H, Matsui Y, Uhara J, Tsuchiya H, Teshima S, Nakanishi H, Kwon AH, Azuma Y, Nagaoka T, Ogawa T, Kamiyama Y. First Department of Surgery and Regeneration Research Center for Intractable Diseases, Kansai Medical University, [...]
Tags: far-infrared, healing, promotive effects, wound healing
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Wed, June 17 2009 » Research » Comments Off
PubMed J Psychosom Res. 2005 Apr;58(4):383-7 The effects of repeated thermal therapy for two patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. Masuda A, Kihara T, Fukudome T, Shinsato T, Minagoe S, Tei C. Respiratory and Stress Care Center, Kagoshima University Hospital, 8-35-1 Sakuragaoka, Kagoshima 890-8520, Japan. masudaak@m.kufm.kagoshima-u.ac.jp OBJECTIVE: This paper describes the successful treatment of two patients [...]
Tags: chronic fatique, syndrome, thermal therapy, two people
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Tue, June 16 2009 » Research » Comments Off
PubMed Psychother Psychosom. 2005;74(5):288-94 The effects of repeated thermal therapy for patients with chronic pain. Masuda A, Koga Y, Hattanmaru M, Minagoe S, Tei C. Nishi Kyusyu University, Saga, Japan. masudaak@m.kufm.kagoshima-u.ac.jp BACKGROUND: It has been reported that local thermal therapy with a hot pack or paraffin relieves pain. We hypothesized that systemic warming may decrease [...]
Tags: chronic pain, thermal therapy
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Mon, June 15 2009 » Research » Comments Off
PubMed Psychosom Med. 2005 Jul-Aug;67(4):643-7 Repeated thermal therapy diminishes appetite loss and subjective complaints in mildly depressed patients. Masuda A, Nakazato M, Kihara T, Minagoe S, Tei C. Psychosomatic Medicine, Respiratory and Stress Care center, Kagoshima University Hospital, Kagoshima City, Japan. masudaak@m.kufm.kagoshima-u.ac.jp OBJECTIVE: We observed that repeated thermal therapy improved appetite loss and general well-being [...]
Tags: improved eating, thermal therapy
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Mon, June 15 2009 » Research » Comments Off
PubMed Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2007;1:1479-82 Clinical effects of far-infrared therapy in patients with allergic rhinitis. Hu KH, Li WT. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chung-Yuan Christian University, Chung-Li, 32023 Taiwan, R.O.C.; Tao-Yuan General Hospital, Tao-Yuan, 33004 Taiwan, R.O.C. e-mail: drhook@ms68.hinet.net. Allergic rhinitis (AR) is the sixth most common chronic illness worldwide, which [...]
Tags: clinical effects, positive, therapy
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Sun, June 14 2009 » Research » Comments Off
PubMed Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2008 Jan 17 Far Infrared Therapy Inhibits Vascular Endothelial Inflammation via the Induction of Heme Oxygenase-1. Lin CC, Liu XM, Peyton K, Wang H, Yang WC, Lin SJ, Durante W. Institute of Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; the Division of Nephrology and the Division of [...]
Tags: Endothelial Inflammation, Far Infrared Therapy, Heme Oxygenase-1, Induction
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