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 […]

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 […]