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Looking Beyond Opioids for Chronic Pain

Taking an active role in your pain care will help you need fewer doctors & pills  Posted Aug 28, 2016  More than 100 million Americans are living with ongoing pain and looking for solutions. Earlier this year the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommended prescribers limit opioids for most people with chronic pain, mainly because…

Pain Management: 15 Easy Ways to Reduce Chronic Pain Reviewed By: William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR Reviewed on 2/15/2018, 1/15 Get Moving We all need to exercise, but pain may keep you from being as active as you should be. The problem is, when you do not exercise, muscles get weaker and you may…

11 Tips for Living With Chronic Pain

1. Learn deep breathing or meditation to help you relax. Deep breathing and meditation are techniques that help your body relax, which may ease pain. Tension and tightness seep from muscles as they receive a quiet message to relax. Although there are many ways to meditate, the soothing power of repetition is at the heart…

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