Our Biography Makes Our Biology: The Link to Mind Body Temple
How much of what our health condition is today can be considered a product of our life experience? The fact is that our Biography, or what we have gone Our biography affects…
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Ashley Villarruel
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Chronic Pain: A Factor in Senior Citizen’s Quality of Life
Chronic pain is a condition that can affect patients at any age. However, elderly patients with chronic pain are increasing in number. All of us go through the wear and…
What Is Arthritis? Why Does Arthritis Hurt?
The word: Arthritis means inflammation of joint. But Arthritis is a name that we put on a spectrum of diseases. We can divide Arthritis into a few groups to better…
Can Using Narcotic Medications Make The Pain Worse?
WHAT IS OPIOID INDUCED HYPERALGESIA? WHY IS IT IMPORTANT FOR PAIN PATIENTS? When a patient uses morphine or any of its by-products, called, as a group, opioids, tolerance emerges…
Fibromyalgia Is A Real Medical Condition. It Is Not Patient’s Imagination
Fibromyalgia is real, its just misunderstood Fibromyalgia is a condition of wide spread body pain. It affects all aspects of one’s life. Pain limits all abilities of function and henceforth,…
Multidisciplinary, Interdisciplinary, circle of care, what is the meaning?
Medicine has been divided into different sub branches and disciplines for the past few hundred years. If we think of Medicine as a tree, there are major branches like Internal…
What Is: Addiction, Dependency, Tolerance
ADDICTION, DEPENDENCY TOLERANCE These words are used too often inappropriately by us without knowing their real meanings. ADDICTION is when one continues to use a substance, goes to extra lengths to get…
Sleep Problems and Chronic Pain. Effects of Pain And Insomnia
[row cols_nr=”2″][col size=”12″] [/col][/row] Have you ever noticed that when you have bad pain you can’t sleep well? How about the increase of your pain level when you did not…
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & Chronic Pain – Fibromyalgia And Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
[row cols_nr=”2″][col size=”12″] [/col][/row] Chronic fatigue is a condition where a person does not have energy for most daily activities. Many reasons may lead into chronic fatigue such as hormonal problems…
Loneliness Kills, Connect To Live
[row cols_nr=”2″][col size=”12″] [/col][/row]Humans are not made to be lonely beings. Throughout history people have always lived together in communal settings as living together was essential to their survival: people…