How Chronic Pain Can Affect Your Family, Friends and Relationships Chronic pain affects many aspects of life. It can impact a person’s ability to work, be productive, and to function. In turn, it can affect them emotionally, physically, financially and socially. This can be stressful. Our body and mind are one and because of this, emotional stress directly affects out physical well-being and conversely physical stress directly affects our...

Can Chronic Pain Be Treated? Because pain is a complex puzzle, no single health care profession holds the puzzle piece that solves this puzzle; rather, each health care profession holds a critical piece that contributes to the completion of the puzzle. Pain practitioners are trained to see their patients as multifaceted, whole systems requiring a multidisciplinary viewpoint. A numerous amount of therapeutic options are available to pain...

Are You Living With Chronic Pain? Coping with chronic pain can sometimes be the hardest part for people because it’s not well understood by the medical field or the general public. It can be very isolating and very socially degrading for people. People can appear quite well and still have several chronic pain issues. Studies have shown that approximately 20 to 30 per cent of the population is living with chronic pain. Some of those...

Research Supporting Chiropractic Care Numerous studies have shown that chiropractic treatment is both safe and effective.  The following are excerpts from a few of the more recent studies.  By examining the research supporting chiropractic care, you will find that chiropractic offers tremendous potential in meeting today’s health care challenges. For Acute and Chronic Pain “Patients with chronic low-back pain treated by chiropractors...

Chiropractic Care For Headaches Chronic headaches can be an incapacitating condition for its sufferers. Most modern treatments are only effective at numbing the symptomatic pain of the headache. The good news is that research shows that acupuncture for headaches is effective at controlling the pain and preventing reoccurrences of headaches. Headaches are commonly classified by their symptoms into the following categories: Migraine...

Chiropractic Adjustments Have you been living with pain that over-the-counter medications do little to ease or control?  Due to the high costs of traditional medical care and concerns about the side-effects of drugs, many are looking toward alternative drug-free healthcare approaches to address the root causes of their pain.  Perhaps this is a reason that chiropractic is among the world’s increasingly expanding healthcare professions in...