July 2008 | Pain Medicine

Primum Non Nocere Using Botanicals in the Treatment of Cancer Pain Dicken Weatherby, ND and Donald R. Yance, CN, MH, RH Trigger Point Therapy Jason E. Barker, ND and Sara Pavone, DiplOM, LAc, CH Causes and presentation of trigger points as a source of pain. Also,...

Pain Management Using Systemic Enzyme Therapy

Tina Marcantel, RN, NMD Pain is one of the most common and challenging complaints doctors are called upon to treat. Most patients present with some type of chronic pain from a long-term illness such as fibromyalgia, diabetes or rheumatoid arthritis; back injuries; or...

Trigger Point Therapy

Trigger points are perhaps one of the most common causes of musculoskeletal pain. Nearly every adult has them, for a variety of reasons. Trigger points are defined as localized, discrete areas within a muscle that are hyperirritable. They may be painful while the...