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Types of Complementary Therapies

By Cancer.net — 2021

When you discuss a complementary therapy with your health care team and they agree that it is safe to try as part of your overall cancer care, this is called “integrative medicine.”

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Mind, Body and Sport: How Being Injured Affects Mental Health

Injuries, while hopefully infrequent, are often an unavoidable part of sport participation. While most injuries can be managed with little to no disruption in sport participation and other activities of daily living, some impose a substantial physical and mental burden.

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Margot Putukian
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Pain and the brain

Tracy Ward explores some of the neurological and behavioural changes that pain can bring about, and the implications for clinicians with athletes in their care.

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Tracy Ward
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The language of pain

Pain and sport often go hand in hand. Physio Karen Litzy explains the best way to communicate with athletes about their pain experience.

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Karen Litzy
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These Researchers Think We Can Retrain Our Brains to Tame Chronic Pain

Just one incident can make the brain overreact to future experiences. Researchers believe the solution is to reframe and retrain.

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Cathryn Jakobson Ramin
2019
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What's Your Pain Tolerance?

Everyone struggles with pain at some point, but how you tolerate pain can be up to you.

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Katrina Woznicki
2014
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Fight Pain Throughout Your Lifetime: Understanding Dr. John Sarno's Mind-Body Connection

Sarno’s basic message is that in the overwhelming majority of cases, back pain is a symptom created by the unconscious mind as a distraction to aid in the repression of strong unconscious emotional issues.

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Edward Siedle
2016
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3 Reasons Your Injury Won't Heal + What To Do About It

The next time you pull a muscle and think, “Oh my gosh, not another one,” you may need to consider the location of your pain may not be the cause. If you are plagued with chronic muscle pulls or tendonitis-like symptoms you’ll need a more holistic approach to the problem.

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Laura Di Franco
2015
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Chronic Pain and Childhood Trauma

Recently a journalist colleague of mine put out a call for quotes from those who suffer from severe premenstrual syndrome and premenstrual dysmorphic disorder (more commonly known as PMS and PMDD, respectively) who also suffered a history of childhood abuse.

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Laura Kiesel
2018
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Chronic Pain Relief: How Your Brain Processes Pain and How Yoga and Movement Can Help

If you have a history of trauma or chronic pain, you may need to relearn the art of listening to your body in a safe and slow manner.

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Arielle Schwartz
2020
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Pain Not Suffering

As long as we have bodies, we will have physical pain. Buddhism promises no escape from that. What we can change is how we experience pain.

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Darlene Cohen, Shinzen Young, Reginald Ray
2007
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