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A majority of Americans feel pain on a daily basis.


treated in emergency rooms for misus- ing prescription opioids, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


Go Natural for Effective Relief


Such statistics expose the magnitude of the problem of chronic pain. “It’s daunt- ing, but there are many natural ways to address it that are inexpensive, effective and with what I call side benefits rather than negative side effects,” says Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum, of Kona, Hawaii, author of the smartphone app Cures A-Z.


Natural Ways to Feel Much Better by Kathleen Barnes A


ccording to the National Center for Health Statistics, 25 percent of Americans, or 76.2 million, are


suffering from pain that lasts more than 24 hours at this very moment: Ouch! Lower back pain alone keeps


Americans from going to work a total of 149 million days each year, costing the U.S. economy $100 to $200 billion, reports the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.


Other common types of chronic pain affect musculoskeletal tissues, knees, hips or the neck. Migraines and severe headaches plague 16.6 percent of adults over 18, per a National Health and Nutri- tion Survey. Neurological discomfort can reach as high as 12.4 percent, estimates a study from the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnesota. Even visceral or organ pain associated with heart disease, cancer and pelvic diseases occur in at least 20 per- cent of the global population, according


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to the International Association for the Study of Pain, in Seattle.


If chronic pain is affecting you, you feel it and want relief—right now.


Watch Out for Opioids Unfortunately, conventional medicine often has little to offer most pain pa- tients. Even for something as pervasive as back pain, surgery and steroid injec- tions are usually an unsatisfactory first line of defense, having mixed results at best, seconded by prescriptions for addictive opioid painkillers. Dr. Nora D. Vokov, director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse, told the U.S. Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control in 2014 that there were an estimated 2.1 million people in the U.S. suffering from substance abuse disorders related to prescription opioid pain relievers in 2012. The problem is worsening. Every day, 1,000 people are


AustinAwakenings.com “Effective natural treatments in-


clude yoga, acupuncture, chiropractic, meditation, lifestyle changes and exer- cise,” notes Cherkin. “But since they’re not in most doctors’ medical training or learned repertoire for pain relief, patients aren’t offered the opportunity to try them.”


What Helps Relieve Pain Here are just some of the many natural and affordable forms of pain relief.


Try the Yass method: Mitch-


ell Yass, Ph.D., of St. John’s, Florida, author of The Pain Cure Rx, is busting the myth that musculoskeletal pain is often caused by osteoarthritis. “Ar- thritis or joint deterioration is rarely the cause of joint pain,” says Yass. He points out that 90 percent of people over 60 have herniated discs, but no associated pain.


Break Free of CHRONIC PAIN


Complementary, integrative or func- tional medicine, all names for a holistic approach to health care, offer a comfort- ing wealth of gentle ways to address chronic pain, most of which the vast majority of conventional medical doctors are unaware, says Daniel Cherkin, Ph.D., senior investigator emeritus with the Group Health Research Institute, at the University of Washington, in Seattle.


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