In his book, Back in Control, Dr. David Hanscom focuses on an aspect of chronic pain that the medical world has largely overlooked: you must calm your nervous system in order to get better. Beyond any other book about back pain, Back in Control reveals how to quiet a turbocharged central nervous system and make a full recovery. Listen to our interview with him to find out how you can eliminate chronic pain from your life without surgery or drugs.
Rachael Vardeman, an employee of Key Compounding Pharmacy, talks with host Shalena Putnam about how she has dealt with the chronic pain brought on by a car accident. She tells about the (non-addictive) alternative she discovered for managing her pain.
For centuries the human brain was thought to be a fairly fixed and unregenerative organ that, if injured or diseased, is subject to only very limited recovery. In his new book, “The Brain’s Way of Healing”, Norman Doidge shows how the new science of neuroplasticity is changing that belief. He chronicles the growing understanding that the human brain is in fact capable of much more significant self-repair and healing. Not only that, but much of the healing–for conditions that range from Parkinson’s disease, to autism, to stroke, to traumatic head injury–can be stimulated by conscious habits of thought and action, by teaching the brain to essentially “rewire itself.”
When Brenden Cochran entered middle school at the age of twelve he had a devastating setback, losing his father to melanoma skin cancer. Struck with sadness he searched his soul to find his inner healer. As he grew older he felt a true calling to help people. Today, he specializes in pain, integrative oncology, chronic disease management and intravenous therapies.
Acupuncture has been used in China for thousands of years. But it only since the late twentieth century that it has been more extensively in the North America and Europe. As scientific evidence of its benefits accumulate, Western medicine is beginning to embrace the use of acupuncture for pain management and as a treatment for a variety of conditions.
Short for “proliferation therapy,” prolotherapy is also known as nonsurgical ligament and tendon reconstruction, or regenerative injection therapy. Prolotherapy works by stimulating the body’s own natural healing mechanisms to repair injured...
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