Pain is classified into two primary categories: acute pain or chronic pain. Keep reading to learn more about each pain type.
Pain is classified into two primary categories: acute pain or chronic pain. Keep reading to learn more about each pain type.
What Is Medical Financing? Getting the medical care you need in the U.S. can be very expensive. Even if you have health insurance, your insurance provider may not cover many procedures that are considered to be “elective.”
What Are the Symptoms of Fibromyalgia? Fibromyalgia is a poorly understood chronic pain condition that significantly impacts your quality of life.
For many people living with severe neck pain and symptoms from a herniated disc, degenerative disc disease, or a pinched nerve, a cervical fusion is the final treatment option.
Read our blog to learn more about the different types of headaches. Identifying the Different Types of Headaches.Headaches are one of the most common pain conditions in the world, and nearly everyone has experienced a headache at some point in their life.
How to Tell If You Have Coccydynia. Coccydynia is persistent, chronic pain of the coccyx (tailbone). The tailbone is the small, triangular bone at the bottom of the spine. It’s the last segment of the spinal column and is made up of 3-5 vertebrae.
What Is CRPS? Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) — formerly known as reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) — is a rare and poorly understood chronic pain condition. Because it’s not widely seen and studied, it’s often misdiagnosed by doctors,...
Severe facial pain is immediately disruptive to everyday life. And unless you were in a recent accident, you may not have any clue what’s causing sudden and significant pain over one or more areas of your face.
Back pain is one of the leading causes of disability and one of the most common reasons for missed work in the United States. It’s one of the most pervasive medical ailments in our society: experts estimate that up to 80% of the population will....
Neuropathy — also called peripheral neuropathy — is nerve pain that occurs when one or more peripheral nerves are damaged or injured. The peripheral nervous system is the network of nerves outside the brain and spinal cord (the brain and spinal cord...
If you’re currently living with chronic pain, you may feel like your entire life revolves around pain. Without treatment and management, pain can control almost all aspects of our lives and affect our abilities to concentrate and work productively...
"I hope to do that with this book; to change the way chronic pain is understood and treated, to ease suffering and to help shift society to a higher level of engagement, ownership, empowerment in whatever they’re dealing with...."
A staggering number of people suffer from chronic pain. In the United States, chronic pain affects more people than cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease combined—more than 100 million—with similar statistics being reported throughout the world.
Understanding Pain in less than 5 minutes, and what to do about it!
The Brain That Changes Itself, Full Documentary, Norman Doidge, MD
Todd talks about being diagnosed with peripheral neuropathy and how Radiant has helped reduced his chronic pain and changed his life.
Why do we hurt? Do we actually experience pain, or is it merely illusion? In this video, Lorimer Moseley explores these questions, and position the pain that we feel as our bodies’ way of protecting us from damaging tissues further. He also looks at...
Backwards Bicycle – SmarterEveryDay, published April 24, 2015, an interesting video to help understand neuroplasticity and the ability of the brain to learn and unlearn things, such as chronic pain.
The Mystery of Chronic Pain – Elliot Krane, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine (Pediatric Anesthesia) at the Stanford University Medical Center and of Pediatrics at the Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital TED Talk...
Karyn Buxman talks about the power that humor has on our daily lives.
Gloria suffered from arthritic pain since she was 33. Watch the video to see how Radiant has helped her.
How a brain gets hooked on opioids | PBS News Hour. Science shows that opioids, which are used as legal painkillers, can lead to addiction in the brain. For the full story, read PBS News Hour’s article on How a brain gets hooked on opioids.
Tame The Beast — It’s time to rethink persistent pain
Hear our story at the nation’s capital on FOX 5 DC
“A person who sees a problem is a human being; a person who finds a solution is a visionary; BUT, the person who goes out and DOES SOMETHING about it is an entrepreneur.” – Naveen Jain
I’m constantly reading new and different books, trying to learn how to optimize my life. But also, I read books, study companies, and watch people simply to get ideas about how to better approach my own goals.
We all experience pain. It happens when we fall over as children and graze our knees, when we drink too much alcohol and give ourselves a hangover, or when we learn the hard way not to touch things that are hot. This kind of pain—acute pain—is part of...
If you live in a modern industrial society, you’re probably used to thinking of medicine in standard terms. A pill should work the same, in most cases, for each person that takes it.
For most people, the idea of paying an annual subscription to access a healthcare service is completely alien. They pay their insurance premiums or, if they are uninsured for a particular therapy, pay when they require it.
With as many as 100 million sufferers in the United States alone, chronic pain is an epidemic. If you’re reading this, I’m going to go ahead and assume that you suffer with chronic pain yourself, or care for someone who does, in which case you’ll know...
at Radiant Pain Relief Centres. At Radiant Pain Relief Centres, we cannot rely on insurance reimbursements to sustain our business. The only way we can survive—and thrive—is by delivering real, consistent value to people seeking relief from...
Chronic pain is a huge, complicated problem, which most clinical professionals touch in some way. Yet most of the therapies that exist are limited, outdated, and inconsistent.
You might think that, in the realm of healthcare, a business model is a secondary concern. In many ways, you’d be right. We’re not interested in excessive profiteering. We want to reach as many people as possible with a solution to their chronic pain.
ou might wonder why there aren’t more effective ways of treating chronic pain. If you or someone you love suffers from a chronic condition, you may despair. Surely, with all the money dedicated to treating every existing disease, it must be possible...
If you live in the United States, or any other industrialized country, you’re probably only too familiar with the experience of racking up credit card debts. You might be surprised at how similar chronic pain is to credit card debt.
When my business partner and I decided to start offering Scrambler Therapy (ST)—a unique new approach to chronic pain—on an independent basis, we knew that the model would need to be as innovative as the treatment.
In an ideal world, Scrambler Therapy (ST) would be readily available to anyone who needed it. ST is a healing modality that is proving highly effective in the treatment of chronic pain; yet, you probably haven’t heard of it.
Chronic pain is an epidemic, affecting an estimated 100 million people in the United States and beyond. Unfortunately, chronic pain is quite poorly understood, even by doctors and other health practitioners.
Chronic pain is a complicated and increasingly common problem that affects millions of people around the world. Complicated in how it intervenes in our lives, complicated in its understanding and origin, and complicated in how healthcare has grown...
In a classic research-based TEDx Talk, Dr. Lara Boyd describes how neuroplasticity gives you the power to shape the brain you want. Recorded at TEDxVancouver at Rogers Arena on November 14, 2015.
Dennis’s first trip to Radiant Pain Relief Centres wasn’t for his own pain, but this fortunate encounter left him with a life changing experience.