Peter Abaci, MD, is one of the world’s leading experts on pain and integrative medicine. He is the medical director and co-founder of the renowned Bay Area Pain and Wellness Center and the author of Conquer Your Chronic Pain: A Life-Changing Drug-Free Approach for Relief, Recovery, and Restoration and Take Charge of Your Chronic Pain: The Latest Research, Cutting-Edge Tools, and Alternative Treatments for Feeling Better.
The holiday season can be an intense time for many of my patients, with plenty of highs and lows. The pressure of participating in family ...
How we approach pain management largely depends on what’s causing the pain. When it’s a byproduct of an ongoing health condition, our ...
Do you find that you’re more forgetful or fuzzy-headed when you are in pain? Is it harder to concentrate? Like many with chronic pain ...
Pain that starts in one place doesn’t necessarily stay there. Over time, pain can spread, shift, expand, or radiate, from one part of ...
When you’re living with ongoing pain, there can be a lot of very sound reasons for being upset, frustrated, and downright ...
Difficulty sleeping is a common source of frustration that I often hear from patients. While pain often causes insomnia, studies suggest that the reverse may be true as well ...
Pain can entirely change our lives. Ongoing pain problems can lead to disabilities like not being able to work, drive, or even maintain ...
When pain is at its worst, we’re tempted to try just about anything to get some relief, including procedures like nerve blocks or ...
As a pain specialist, I’ve learned that one of the most powerful things I can do when I meet a new patient is to provide a sense of ...
“Is there hope?” is a question I hear often. One of my patients struggling with a low back injury recently mentioned that ...
You may have noticed that at any given moment your pain levels can fluctuate based on many different variables, including the weather ...
Right about now there is a good chance that you have been thinking about ways you might “hit the refresh button” on your pain management ...
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