The Pacific Rehabilitation Blog

Tai Chi: Long Term Pain Relief for Back Pain

Feb 24, 2020 | Chronic pain

Tai Chi for Lower Back Pain ReliefIn a recent review published in the journal Holistic Nursing Practice, researchers looked at 32 peer-reviewed studies on movement-based interventions on lower back pain specifically, with results ranging from pain reduction to...

Chronic Pain as an Expression of Grief

Feb 20, 2020 | Chronic pain

As America grows older, we all are suffering from some sort of chronic pain. It could be your arthritis flaring up to back pain. Approximately more than 1.5 billion people worldwide suffer from chronic pain, per data revealed by the American Academy of Pain Medicine....

Medicare Now Covers Acupuncture for Lower Back Pain

Feb 10, 2020 | News

GOOD NEWS! Medicare will now cover acupuncture for low back pain. While a small number of adults 65 years of age and older have been enrolled in published acupuncture studies, patients with chronic low back pain in these studies have shown improvements in function...

Does Anxiety cause Chronic Pain?

Feb 4, 2020 | Chronic pain, Mindfulness

Dr. Griffin Baum MD, a spine surgery from New York reports “Patients with anxiety typically report increased sensations of pain with more profound experiences of suffering and disability due to the pain…Anxiety arises from an imbalance of neurotransmitters in the...

Self-Care for Individuals with Chronic Pain

Jan 28, 2020 | Chronic pain

When I hear the works “self-care” I immediately think of a massage, facial or pedicure…oh and going out to dinner so I don’t have to cook! But for many who deal with chronic pain, self-care is an absolute necessity that goes beyond. “Treating yourself” is not a form...