Discernment + Discrimination = Success In Eliminating Chronic Pain

We often hear that the key to success is to never give up. I think that the key to success is the persistent application of discernment and discrimination.   Daily I receive emails from desperate chronic pain sufferers who recount their personal, heart-rending story – futilely seeking relief through medical help and time after time, year [...]

Three Opposing Viewpoints On The Treatment Of Chronic Pain

I recently read two opposing viewpoints on the treatment of chronic pain. Both were written by doctors; one that feels a necessity to prescribe invasive drugs in chronic pain treatment and one that sends a plea to medical colleagues to rethink the use of these harmful drugs. Following are both sides, along with my own [...]

Are Laws Keeping Your Doctor From Telling You About Alternative Treatments For Chronic Pain?

An article on the Alliance For Natural Health website titled "Can My Doctor Get Into Big Legal Trouble By Offering Natural Health Treatments?" makes it very clear: Alternative healthcare practitioners are being seriously threatened, and if this continues, it will most certainly affect your choices of how you take care of your body – if [...]

Kansas City Star Talks About Relieving Chronic Pain in America

An article in the Kansas City Star comments on the report; Relieving Pain in America: A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education and Research. This report states some very interesting observations: "Pain treatment is hampered by inadequate training of doctors, insufficient insurance reimbursements and the negative attitudes of both doctors and patients toward people in [...]

Why Your Cure May Have To Come From Overseas— And American Doctors Will Try To Stop You

American's often assume that they have access to the best level of health care in the world. When they walk into a doctor's office, whether that doctor is a general practitioner or a specialist, the chronic pain patient feels assured that the doctor standing before them knows about and has access to all the latest [...]

Plantar Fasciitis –Its Cause And Treatment

Do you have stabbing pain on the bottom and inside of your heel (where the plantar fascia attaches to your heel bone)? Is the pain usually worse first thing in the morning, yet eases after a few steps? Does your pain sometimes return after long periods of standing or sitting? If so, you may have [...]

How Free Are We To Choose Our Healthcare?

Dr. Benjamin rush, who was one of the signers of the United States Declaration of Independence, said, "Unless we put medical freedom into the constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of men and companies, and deny equal privileges [...]

Kathryn Merrow, Host Of Pain Relief Radio, Interviews Pain Relief Specialist Dr. Brian Rothbart

As part of Rothbarts Foot Awareness Week, Kathryn Merrow, the host of BlogTalkRadio program "Pain Relief Radio ," interviews pain elimination specialist Dr. Brian A. Rothbart. They discuss Dr. Rothbart's discovery of two previously unidentified abnormal foot structures that are a frequent cause of chronic pain. In the interview, Dr. Rothbart discusses his own struggle [...]

How To Find A Credible And Qualified Doctor On The Internet—Part 2

In part 1 – How To Find A Credible And Qualified Doctor On The Internet – we talked about how to determine if a doctor (that you find on the Internet) is credible and qualified to effectively treat your chronic muscle and joint pain. We addressed how to find out the legitimacy of the doctor’s school, [...]

How To Find A Credible And Qualified Doctor On The Internet–Part 1

Like most chronic pain sufferers, you may have found your doctor(s) from preferred providers covered by your insurance company, friend and family referrals or simply by scanning your neighborhood phone book.   But if you have not found permanent pain relief after seeing countless practitioners in your area, you (like many others) may be considering [...]

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