Most people think about pain as a simple cause-and-effect process. For example, if you touch a hot stove, you probably assume that the nerves in the skin feel how hot the stove is and signals are sent ...

As we all know, aging can be a pain in the neck (literally … and in the back, legs, etc.). The process of aging does many things to our bodies (i.e., muscles begin to lose their strength, eyesight ...

Acupuncture involves terms of emerge flow through the body along the meridians called Qi (pronounced “chee”). The principles believe that there is a continuum of energy that flows in the body between ...

TENS, or transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation is a treatment which is at least several decades old at this time and is used for the mediation of pain. TENS is the application of electrical ...

The gate control theory of pain, put forward by Ron Melzack and Patrick Wall in 1962, is the idea that physical pain is not a direct result of activation of pain receptor neurons, but rather its ...