Fixing chronic back pain is possible only when patients understand how much it is produced by the brain, not the spine.
For patient after patient seeking to cure chronic back pain, the experience is years of frustration. Whether they strive to treat their aching muscles, bones, and ligaments through physical therapy, massage or rounds of surgery, relief […]
Sleep is your life-support system and Mother Nature’s best effort yet at immortality, says sleep scientist Matt Walker. In this deep dive into the science of slumber, Walker shares the wonderfully good things that happen when you get sleep — and the alarmingly bad things that happen when you don’t, for both your brain and […]
How Addiction Affects Sleep
The quality of your sleep is affected by everything. From your habits and the food you eat, to the medications you take and drinks you ingest. So, it’s no surprise that if a person has developed an addiction—to an over-the-counter drug, alcohol, or other type of substance—that addiction could affect their sleep […]
Do you have trouble falling asleep? Do you toss and turn at night? A good night’s sleep is necessary for optimal health. So if you’re one of the millions of people in the world who suffers from a sleep disorder or you want to fall asleep faster, watch this video to learn a trick straight […]
Joe Rogan and Matthew Walker on insomnia.
– Study showed small improvement functional health, well-being
Online cognitive behavioral therapy delivered by a commercially available app was found to improve both daytime and nighttime symptoms of insomnia in a randomized clinical trial.
Patients with insomnia who participated in the digitally based program showed significantly greater improvements in functional health, psychological well-being, and sleep-related quality of life, […]
Author: Wayne B Jonas, MD Cindy Crawford Luana Colloca, MD, PhD Levente Kriston, PhD Klaus Linde, MD, PhD Bruce Moseley, MD Karin Meissner
Abstract
Objective
To assess the evidence for the safety and efficacy of invasive procedures for reducing chronic pain and improving function and health-related quality of life compared with sham (placebo) procedures.
Design
Systematic review with meta-analysis.
Methods
Studies were […]
Author: Marc R. Larochelle, MD, MPH; Dana Bernson, MPH; Thomas Land, PhD; Thomas J. Stopka, PhD, MHS; Na Wang, MA; Ziming Xuan, ScD, SM; Sarah M. Bagley, MD, MSc; Jane M. Liebschutz, MD, MPH; Alexander Y. Walley, MD, MSc
Abstract
Background:
Opioid overdose survivors have an increased risk for death. Whether use of medications for opioid use disorder […]
Addiction doctors are worried about federal retribution against their treatment programs, and they’re terrified for their patients, whose lives are at risk from an overdose.
Opioid overdose is now responsible for one in five deaths among young adults—an astonishing proportion, according to new data from the American Medical Association. These losses aren’t inevitable: We actually have […]
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