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Headaches
Arthritis
The cause of carpal tunnel syndrome is pressure on the median nerve in that confined space. Swelling in the region of the wrist can cause pressure. Medical conditions such as diabetes, hypothyroid, and rheumatoid arthritis may also be causes. Obesity, hypertension, and pregnancy with fluid retention can also bring about symptoms. Even more commonly, repetitive motions of the hands and wrists, such as typing or the use of a keyboard or mouse, can cause the injury.
Fibromyalgia
In fact, in a study about chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia, the most frequently mentioned benefit of an online support group was illness legitimization (67.8%). Two other benefits that were frequently mentioned were finding out new information (66.4%) and feeling understood by others (62.2%). Clearly sharing ideas and connecting with others was helpful for those dealing with an isolating condition.
Cryotherapy
Cooling, ice and cryotherapy work on the premise of decreasing inflammation throughout the body. Cryotherapy is an inexpensive treatment, probably costing about $15 per session, but that can add up quickly if you do it after every workout. During a workout, the body produces increased waste products of metabolism. In general, these do not necessarily cause pain and inflammation. In fact, after a workout, one may want to flush the waste products out of the body versus rapidly cooling down the body and decreasing the body’s elimination of any of these waste products. Furthermore there is absolutely no scientific evidence to prove that cryotherapy works or helps athletes or any of the above illnesses.
Medical Weight Loss
Weight Management – Finally, regular exercise also make it easier for a person to maintain or work towards an ideal weight. When you’re heavier, your body has to handle more stress with each step you take, and that added pressure can lead to joint deterioration or increased inflammation, both of which can exacerbate a chronic pain condition. Managing your weight can certainly have a positive effect on your chronic pain treatment, and exercise can be the catalyst for that weight loss.
Primary Care
If the pain does not resolve within a week of trying these methods, then help from a primary care provider may be beneficial to obtain stronger medications and physical therapy. No matter what you do, most sciatica pain will resolve within a month.
Family Practice

Pelvic Pain
Pregnancy

Internal Medicine
JAMA Internal Medicine found that patients with noncancer chronic pain can benefit from psychological interventions, which can help to reduce perceived pain levels.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Hand pain can be caused by a number of different ailments. There are a huge number of structures in the hand that allow it to have its functional ability. The bones, joints, muscles, ligaments, tendons, and nerves all may be sources of pain. Trauma can easily damage any of these specific structures. However, one of the most common syndromes to affect the hands is carpal tunnel syndrome.
Multiple Sclerosis
For the stars, major sports athletes and the exercise enthusiasts, one of the newer trends is cryotherapy. In short, it involves immersing oneself in extreme cold after an intense workout. The intense variety is a liquid nitrogen vapor chamber with the head outside and the body exposed to minus 292 degrees Fahrenheit for at the most three minutes. It is supposed to prevent inflammation and promote faster recovery from intense physical activity. The main focus of treatment is for athletes, but there have been claims that it helps a number of conditions like Multiple Sclerosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, migraines, fibromyalgia, Alzheimer’s, chronic pain and anxiety.

Stress Management
By helping the patient find new psychological strategies to control or better cope with their pain, people often feel more in control of their symptoms, which in turn can decrease the perception of pain. If you are suffering from chronic pain, talk to your doctor about psychological approaches to best manage your condition. Reach out to Dr. Cohn for more information.
Depression
Mental Health
Mood/Anxiety/Depression Improvements – Exercise can trigger the release of feel good hormones in your brain called endorphins, which can improve your mood and decrease your risk of mental health issues like anxiety and depression. Since chronic pain treatment involves more than just treating physical pain, it’s important that we understand how exercise can help to alleviate chronic pain by improving our mental and emotional well-being.
Anxiety

Endocrinologist

Diabetes Care

MRI
For the study, researchers used a functional MRI to scan the brains of 20 patients living with chronic pain. During the scans, patients were exposed to stimuli on their legs that ranged from painless to moderately painful, and patients recorded their perceived pain intensity using a standard pain scale. 10 of the patients were subjected to the painful stimuli while alone, while the other 10 were exposed to the stimuli while in the presence of a physician. Of the 10 that were exposed while with a physician, half of those patients had spoke to the physician before the evaluation, while the other five had not had any prior interaction with the physician in the room.
Radiology
X-Rays

Sciatica
Sciatica is a painful condition that occurs when your sciatic nerve becomes damaged or compressed. Your sciatic nerve runs down your leg, and when it becomes compressed, symptoms can range from mild discomfort to major pain.
Whiplash
The most common times where nerve endings are purposefully destroyed are for facet joint pain. On each side of the spine at every level there is a joint between the bones known as the facet joint. In the cervical and lumbar levels they are very mobile, but they also support a significant amount of weight from our head and bodies. These joints are almost identical to your finger joints in size and function but they have significantly more weight going through them. Pain from these joints in the neck have well defined patterns for head, neck and upper back pain. This is also the typical pain seen in a whiplash type injury.
Pinched Nerve
Do you have a constant or recurring pain in your hand, wrist, or forearm? You may have a common condition known as carpal tunnel syndrome. Carpal tunnel syndrome is a condition in which a pinched nerve in the wrist leads to pain in the hand and forearm.
Joint Replacement
Recently I found an article in Science News on an old material with a new use. The material is polymer that is similar to a fiber used in making bulletproof vests. Apparently, with some modifications, it has been made into a very tough material with similar toughness, stiffness, and water content as cartilage in the body. Cartilage is the material that covers bones and makes up joints in the body. The degenerative type of arthritis one gets as they age, osteoarthritis, involves the deterioration of cartilage. This is also the same wear that people have in their joints that leads to the need for joint replacement.
Hysterectomy
Knee Replacement
Our knees handle an immense amount of stress each day as we run and walk, and if you develop pain or discomfort in your knees, it can make movement downright difficult. And while knee replacement operations are available for severe knee joint deterioration, you may be able to avoid surgery and alleviate symptoms if you know how to treat chronic knee pain when it first develops. In today’s blog, we share four tips for overcoming chronic knee pain.

Plastic Surgeons

Breast Surgery

Frostbite
Fads for health often are merely just hype. Many are costly, and most have little to no scientific basis to be helpful. Whole body cooling for instance, if not done extremely carefully, can easily stress the heart and cause frostbite burns. Further, it may cause vessel constriction and prevent the body from eliminating waste products produced with exercise. Most fads are often an exaggeration of practical strategies for a problem. Changing hydration with drinking a sport’s drink to getting intravenous hydration with vitamins after athletic events, or slowing down and breathing deeply after a race compared to wearing an oxygen mask and breathing pure oxygen gas are both examples of this. There really is no science behind any of these trends and mostly are targeted at high profile individuals who are then emulated by others.
Burns

Physical Therapists

Physical Therapy
1. You Are Stronger Because Of It – It takes an incredibly strong person to get out of bed and face their chronic pain condition every day. You may not feel stronger because of your chronic pain condition, but trust us when we say that you are strong and resilient. You don’t need to be strong every single moment of every day, because chronic pain is incredibly draining, but in those moments where you force yourself to exercise, to complete your physical therapy routine or to simply eat a healthy meal, you are showing your strength in the face of chronic pain.
Neck Pain
Back Pain

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