When you touch a hot stove, the nerves in your hand send a pain signal to your brain that alerts you to quickly move your hand from the stove. Pain signals can be classified as acute or chronic. Acute pain is like the hot stove example above, but with chronic pain, the brain continues to send pain … [Read more...] about How do Nerve Blocks Relieve Pain?
All You Need to Know About Vertebroplasty
The truth is that we all desire to have fit and healthy bodies. Consequently, we constantly work out and adopt various diet plans to help us achieve this. However, although all this helps enhance our immune system and keep our bodies safe, we tend to develop various health complications from time to … [Read more...] about All You Need to Know About Vertebroplasty
Common Treatments for RSD/CRPS
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD), also known as Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), is a health condition that causes severe, lasting, debilitating pain. It is thought to be an autoimmune condition. Common symptoms include severe and constant pain, swelling, inflammation, changes in skin … [Read more...] about Common Treatments for RSD/CRPS
How Does Arthritis Affect Sleep?
The term 'arthritis' is used by the CDC to describe a number of conditions that cause trouble, most often pain and stiffness, for your joints or tissues around the joints. All these types of arthritis affect sleep. That is because the thing these conditions all have in common is that they keep … [Read more...] about How Does Arthritis Affect Sleep?