Category: Shoulder Pain
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Shoulder Pain: Manual Therapy Works Well and Costs Less Than Shots
Basically, at the end of 1 year, the manual therapy patients had as much symptom relief as the steroid shot patients, but the group of patients that received the steriod injections spent more money. by Shara Yurkiewicz August 04, 2014 Patients with shoulder pain receiving corticosteroid injections (CSI) versus manual physical therapy (MPT) had the…
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Ketogenic Diets and Pain
This article proposes that a low carbohydrate diet (ketogenic diet) may help reduce pain. This type of diet helps to control seizures, and some of the theory is based on that. They say that like seizures, chronic pain is thought to involve increased excitability of nerves, the ketogenic diet has some commonality with anticonvulsant drugs,…