chronic pain Tag

30 Sep

Posted at 13:48h in Pain Research

Craniosacral Therapy Safety Notice: Discuss craniosacral therapy with your healthcare provider before scheduling a session. Craniosacral therapy may not be appropriate for everyone. Contraindications include, but are not limited to:

  • Blood clots
  • A concussion
  • Brain swelling
  • Brain aneurysm
  • Chiari malformation
  • Any condition that causes cerebrospinal fluid pressure, flow or buildup

Craniosacral therapy should not replace evaluation or treatment by a licensed medical provider. Seek prompt medical care for new or unexplained symptoms such as a sudden severe headache, numbness, weakness or vision changes.

Craniosacral therapy has a loyal following and a skeptical research community. A practitioner uses light touch on the skull, neck, spine and sacrum.

Whether it does more than that is a different question. More recent reviews have reached less favorable conclusions than the earlier evidence. So it helps to know how the evidence has changed before booking a session.

[caption id="attachment_76390" align="aligncenter" width="500"]craniofacial-pain-pexels Photo by Jonathan Borba[/caption]

12 Sep

Posted at 19:23h in Author Interviews, Pain Research, Surgical Research
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: [caption id="attachment_44452" align="alignleft" width="148"]Wayne B. Jonas, MD Clinical Professor of Family Medicine Uniformed Services University and at Georgetown University School of Medicine Dr. Jonas[/caption] Wayne B. Jonas, MD Clinical Professor of Family Medicine Uniformed Services University and at Georgetown University School of Medicine MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? Response: The search for non-drug approaches to chronic pain is a major recommendation in many recent guidelines for both pain management and reduction in the use of opioids. Surgical and invasive procedures are non-drug approaches often used for pain conditions like back pain and arthritis, so good evidence is needed to determine the safety and efficacy of these procedures. Properly done randomized, placebo controlled trials are the best way (the gold standard) to get that evidence, so we did a thorough evaluation of such research, using standard systematic review and meta-analysis methods.