By: Kellsey Reed, RDN, LDN, PatientsLikeMe Contributor Nerve damage can significantly impact quality of life, causing symptoms like pain, tingling, numbness, and muscle weakness. Medications and physical therapy are often essential for managing nerve pain, but your diet can also play a crucial role in supporting nerve health, reducing symptoms, and preventing further damage. Let’s… Continue reading Nutrients to Focus on for Nerve Damage
Category: Chronic Pain
The Back Muscles Explained: How to Relieve Pain
Back pain is one of the most common health issues, especially as we get older. It can range from mild discomfort to debilitating pain. In fact, 8% of all American adults experience chronic back pain! This can lead to increased healthcare experiences and a lower quality of life. Your back muscles support your spine, allowing… Continue reading The Back Muscles Explained: How to Relieve Pain
Hand Pain: Trigger Finger and Trigger Thumb Explained
Millions of people in the United States have chronic pain in their hand, wrist, or thumb. Arthritis is actually the most common cause of disability in the country! If you are living with hand pain, you know how difficult basic daily tasks can get. Trigger finger and trigger thumb are common conditions that can cause… Continue reading Hand Pain: Trigger Finger and Trigger Thumb Explained
7 Strategies for Enhancing Health and Wellness with Chronic Conditions
Integrating Lessons Learned for Enhancing Health Over the past seven weeks, we’ve explored various ways to enhance well-being, offering insights on living a healthier and more fulfilling life. From the power of health perception to managing personal triggers, these themes combine to form a comprehensive approach to personal wellness. Here’s a summary of our key… Continue reading 7 Strategies for Enhancing Health and Wellness with Chronic Conditions
10 Simple Steps to Create a Positive Mindset
Mastering a Positive Mindset: Science-Backed Strategies for a Happier You Living with a chronic condition can be a profound and often isolating experience. It can affect every aspect of life, making the pursuit of positivity feel like a daunting or even unrealistic goal. The intention of this post is not to suggest that pain is… Continue reading 10 Simple Steps to Create a Positive Mindset
Mastering Personal Triggers: A Guide to Stress Management
Identifying and Navigating Your Personal Triggers for Stress and Pain Management Have you ever suddenly felt overwhelmed or stressed without really knowing why? You might be experiencing a response to a trigger—a specific situation or event that sets off an emotional or physical reaction. Identifying, understanding and managing your personal triggers is an important step… Continue reading Mastering Personal Triggers: A Guide to Stress Management
Treating Nerve Pain
Nerve pain or neuropathy is not your typical pain issue. For people who have muscle or joint pain, treatment might include ice, heat, over the counter pain meds, and anti-inflammatories. For those living with nerve pain, the treatment is different because the source of pain is different. Nerve pain is caused by damaged peripheral nerves… Continue reading Treating Nerve Pain
Comparing Online vs In-Person Physical Therapy for Pain Management
Living with back pain – whether it’s ongoing or temporary, impacts our lives, limits our mobility, and can be an endless journey searching for relief. When someone is experiencing back pain, they’ll often go to the doctor’s office, take medication, and hope their pain disappears. Fortunately, we now have more options! Rather than getting treated… Continue reading Comparing Online vs In-Person Physical Therapy for Pain Management
Releasing Limiting Beliefs and Embracing Your Potential
Release Your Potential We all have immense potential and are capable of achieving incredible things. Limiting beliefs can hold us back and narrow our view. These self-imposed barriers often prevent us from moving forward. Today, we’ll offer some practical tools and resources to help you release those limiting beliefs and foster a mindset that supports… Continue reading Releasing Limiting Beliefs and Embracing Your Potential
Improving Form and Safety During Home-Based Therapy for Pain Management
In recent years, home-based virtual therapy sessions have become a popular and effective way to manage pain. This approach has a number of benefits, including convenience and increased accessibility. Through companies like Kaia Health, people suffering from chronic pain are able to access personalized care from health professionals. They are given the tools and routines… Continue reading Improving Form and Safety During Home-Based Therapy for Pain Management