Part 2: How to Manage Pain Using Nutrition
What is the best diet for people who experience persistent pain? Can pain relief be found in certain foods? What is a pain care practitioner’s role in guiding clients towards better dietary habits? This is Part 2 of How to Manage Pain Using Nutrition How to Manage Pain Using Nutrition Part 1 reviewed some of […]
Part 1: How to Manage Pain Using Nutrition
Can what we eat influence our level of perceived pain? Does food play a role in the development or management of chronic pain conditions? This is Part 1 of a two-part blog that explores the relationship between diet and chronic pain. With escalating rates of obesity, ill health, and disease in the United States, studies […]
The Best Science-Based Ways to Ease Stress and Reduce Pain
Imagine a car racing towards you as you cross the street. In that type of situation, stress protects you from potential injury. Fortunately, that kind of acute stress doesn’t happen often. More common are the chronic, everyday stressors that can impact your happiness and your pain levels.Researchers define stress as a state of real or […]
Could the Mediterranean Diet Have Benefits for Osteoarthritic Pain?
As healthcare professionals have long known, the Mediterranean diet has consistently been shown to have beneficial effects on musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, metabolic, and cognitive diseases, but can it also be associated with a lower prevalence of osteoarthritis of the knee? Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most prevalent joint disease and a leading source of chronic pain and […]
Eating Right to Heal Chronic Pain: Nutrition Guidance in Physical Therapy Practice
It’s 9 am and your patient just arrived at her first physical therapy session for chronic knee pain. She is a heavy but active woman. As she checks-in, she sets aside a 32 oz. soda cup and you realize that it will take more than some range of motion and resistance exercises to alleviate her […]
Nutritional Deficiency, Obesity, and Poor Eating Behaviors in Chronic Pain Patients Receiving Long-Term Opioid Therapy
Are patients with chronic pain on long-term opioid therapy more likely to be overweight? To what extent are chronic pain, nutritional deficiency, poor eating habits, and obesity related? The field of nutrition has gained increased interest in medical circles over the last 20 years, as science continues to support the correlation between nutrition, diet and […]
