chronic pain
Asutra Voluntarily Discontinues Claims for Magnesium Body Butter With Capsaicin
BBB National Programs’ National Advertising Division (NAD) challenged “express and implied advertising claims” made by Proximity Capital Partners (dba Asutra), concerning the efficacy of its Magnesium Body Butter with Capsaicin. According to NAD, the challenge claims include statements that Asutra’s Magnesium Body Butter provides relief from chronic pain, aids recovery, promotes comfort and better sleep, ...
[Extra! Extra!] Review Suggests Scrambler Therapy Extends Relief for Chronic Pain
Pain experts suggest that scrambler therapy, a noninvasive pain treatment approved by the FDA in 2009, can yield significant relief for approximately 80 percent—90 percent of patients with chronic pain, and it may be more effective than another noninvasive therapy: transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS). Scrambler therapy administers electrical stimulation through the skin via electrodes ...
Healthy Living
Insights into the healthy aging category. Panelists: Janus Baker, Marketing Brand Manager, Wakunaga of America, Mission Viejo, CA, www.kyolic.com Ramona Billingslea, Marketing Manager, Betsy’s Health Foods, Spring, TX, www.betsyhealth.com Gene Bruno, MS, MHS, RH(AHG), Vice President of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs, NutraScience Labs (Twinlab Consolidated Holdings), www.nutrasciencelabs.com Dan Lifton, CEO, Quality of Life Labs, Port ...
Mindy Barrows, Pecan Grove Acupuncture and Wellness Clinic
Mindy Barrows, Owner Pecan Grove Acupuncture and Wellness Clinic Richmond, TX [email protected] Mindy Barrows, BSc in biology, MAOM, DACM, has more than 30 years of experience in the health and nutrition field and both a master’s degree and doctorate in acupuncture and Chinese medicine. In her clinical practice, she specializes in neuro-acupuncture. Barrows’ passion for ...
3 Reasons Why All Your Customers Need to Sleep
Sleep has numerous benefits, and research as well as the medical community, are showing several ways in which sleep can protect health. Pain Reduction: According to Stuart Quan, MD, contributing editor to Harvard Health Publishing’s Harvard Health Blog, from Harvard Medical School, nearly 70 percent of Americans report getting insufficient sleep on a regular basis, ...
Institute of Medicine’s Relieving Pain in America: A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education and Research
Acute and chronic pain affects large numbers of Americans, with approximately 100 million U.S. adults burdened by chronic pain alone. The annual national economic cost associated with chronic pain is estimated to be $560-635 billion. Pain is a uniquely individual and subjective experience that depends on a variety of biological, psychological, and social factors, and ...
Heading Off Pain
According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), chronic pain affects about 100 million Americans annually and costs the nation upwards of $635 billion each year in medical treatment and lost productivity. That’s more than the total number of adults affected each year by heart disease, cancer and diabetes combined.And whether it’s chronic or acute pain, ...
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