There is nothing more depressing than a stiff shoulder, and most people are willing to do anything they can to get rid of their arm pain and limited motion range. Fortunately, shoulder injuries and shoulder stiffness are common and treatable pain problems that most people experience from time to time.

More and more patients come to me convinced they know the nature of their medical condition. It’s not surprising because people nowadays “Google” everything and sometimes find out more than they need to know.

If you sell electro therapy devices as part of your alternative pain management program as a DME (durable medical equipment) provider, this article is for you. It explains in easy-to-understand terms the meaning of each of the devices and what they do. Knowing this will make you a more effective and more successful durable medical equipment provider.

One of the most excruciating and debilitating pains that one can experience is heel pain. Heel pain can actually interfere with your activities of daily living limiting the things that you want or need to do. In fact, many people often avoid certain activities such as exercise because of the pain and end up gaining weight and becoming depressed as a result.

Fibromyalgia is also known as chronic fatigue syndrome and as the name suggests, this disease can be characterized by overall fatigue and pain of the sufferer. If you are suffering from fibromyalgia, you may be experiencing stiffness of your body as well as difficulty in sleeping.

Hot tubs without covers cannot be appreciated. If you own a hot tub you just cannot miss buying a hot tub cover. Hot tubs or soaking tubs without cover may give you more pain than pleasure.

If you are suffering from fibromyalgia, you don’t have to lose hope despite the fact that there are no cures for the said condition. There are actually some things that you can do to alleviate the symptoms of fibromyalgia.

Fibromyalgia is painful and most of the time it affects your day to day living and the quality of your life. Dealing with fibromyalgia can be stressful and you should not just settle with those antidepressants, pain relievers and the many other drugs that can temporarily drive the symptoms away, but you have to learn also a few things that can help you in dealing with fibromyalgia.

Maybe the reasons why you weren’t able to keep those New Year’s resolutions was because they were too broad and general; maybe they required resources that were not available; or maybe there were just too many barriers to overcome; and lastly maybe you just didn’t have the motivation to reach them. This article will help you to learn how to set goals for your pain-management that can be followed through and achieved, not like all those New Year’s resolutions.

This article summarizes 25 years of research on the power of humor and laughter to reduce pain. Both experimental research and clinical studies of patients with chronic pain show pain reduction in response to humor.