Positive Health Online

Issue 51

ARNOLD and THORNBROUGH, Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine USA write that Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine (TCHM) uses naturally occurring p1

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Issue 51

FRANK, University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, Medical Acupuncture for Physicians Program USA writes that neural therapy is a treatment system which helps to relieve chronic pain and illness.

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Issue 44

NICKELSON and colleagues, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Mercer University School of Medicine, Macon GA 31207, USA write that despite the availability of specialised treatment for chronic pain, including

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Issue 44

LAO and colleagues, Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Maryland at Baltimore, 21207-6697 USA. Llao@compmed.ummc.ab.umd.edu write that although acupuncture is increasingly used by the general popul1

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Issue 44

LAUNSO and colleagues, Department of Social Pharmacy, royal Danish School of Pharmacy, Copenhagen, Denmark write that headache is the most frequently reported symptom among Danish adults, with migraine headache

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Issue 41

WOOLLAM and JACKSON, Norfolk Hospital Health Care NHS Trust, Norwich UK conducted a survey of acupuncture practice in chronic pain clinics in the UK.

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Issue 41

OHRBACH and colleagues, Department of Psychiatry, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle 98104-2499 USA write that burn injuries cause severe wound care pain which is ideally controlled in intensive burn 1

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Issue 40

KAZAK and colleagues, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Division of Oncology, Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 191044399 USA compared a combined pharma1

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Issue 40

PRYSEP-PHILLIPS and colleagues, Division of Neurology, Health Sciences Centre, St Johns NF. Wpryse@morgan.ucs.mun.ca sought to provide guidelines to physicians and allied health care professionals regarding the nonpharmacologic c1

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Issue 40

MELHAM and colleagues, Ball Memorial Hospital, Muncie Indiana 47304 USA report a clinical case demonstrating the clinical effectiveness of a new form of soft tissue mobilisation for the treatment of excessive connective tissue 1

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Issue 40

FIELD and colleagues, Touch Research Institute, University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida 33101 USA researched the application of massage therapy for burn injuries.

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Issue 40

KUZNETSOV and colleagues, Eastern Europe investigated the use of massotherapy for chronic salpingo-oophoritis (inflammation of the ovaries and fallopian tubes, CSO).

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Issue 38

TURP and colleagues, Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-1078 USA write that knowledge regarding differing treatments for nonmalignant musculoskeletal facial pain 1

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Issue 38

WIDERSTROM-NOGA and colleagues, Department of Physiology, Goteborg University, Sweden.investigated the influence of trait anxiety and mood variables upon change in the threshold of tooth pain.

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Issue 38

McMILLAN and colleagues, Department of Restorative Dentistry, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom write that painful trigger points are often treated with dry needling and local anaesthetic injections;1

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Issue 38

BLANCHARD and colleagues, Center for Stress and Anxiety Disorders, University at Albany-SUNY, New York 12203 USA tested for the specific therapeutic effects of thermal biofeedback (TBF) for hand warming upon vascular headache (HA).

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Issue 36

LONGWORTH and McCARTHY, East Finchley Clinic, London UK write that the association between acupuncture (AP) and pain relief is so strong that is has tended to obscure other clinically signific1

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Issue 36

JIN and colleagues, Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China studied the analgesia efficacy of drugs combined with acupuncture to treat pain for women in labour.

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Issue 29

COMMENTS: How disappointing and how counter-intuitive are these results, which illustrates how important it is to do good clinical research. If the hypothesis was that children's headaches are partly due to stress, then presumably such a programme of r1

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Issue 29

PATTERSON and colleagues, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle USA write in their review (96 references) that there has been strong anecdotal support from case reports regarding the use of hypnosis for treating pain from severe 1

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