If you, or anyone you know could benefit from naturopathic care for endometriosis, please share below. This is a clinical trial and registration is now open. The program in Brisbane will be run by me and facilitated by PhD candidate Sophia Gerontakos at Vibe Natural Health in Grange. We are kicking off in Brisbane onContinue reading “Revolutionary Endometriosis Care”
Category Archives: Chronic pain management
Bad, Mad, Sad
Are you feeling bad, mad, or sad? ๐ฌ๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐ ๐บ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ, and just as important is knowing what you are feeling and being able to articulate them. Not knowing is called alexithymia, which means an inability to describe our own emotions. It can also be associated with difficulty with identifying different types of emotions. Critically notContinue reading “Bad, Mad, Sad”
Podcast: how the brain influences pain and other musings
In this podcast with Daniel Roytas I talk about pain management from a holistic perspective and consider the importance of a biopsychosocial approach to pain. We also talk about how the brain plays a major role in pain perception. ย
PainWISE – chronic pain education online!
Hi everyone, in this video I talk about the upcoming PainWISE chronic pain education course – who it might suit and why, and some of the concepts I will cover as part of the 4 session course. The next online course goes live on Monday 13th of September. To find out more please go hereContinue reading “PainWISE – chronic pain education online!”
Dietary relief for arthritis & musculoskeletal pain
Thereโs a ton of ideas floating around social media about the best diet for chronic health issues. Some have research to back them up, many donโt. So, when I read this recent paper reviewing the studies that found positive effects of dietary changes on pain intensity in musculoskeletal pain (MSK) I was one happy practitioner!Continue reading “Dietary relief for arthritis & musculoskeletal pain”
Rethinking Chronic Pain
A recent article written for the Australian Natural Therapies Association magazine discussing as a practitioner how to approach pain from a holistic perspective. We have all felt pain at some time in our lives and as health care professionals many of us are treating patients with persistent pain in our clinics. In acute pain, onceContinue reading “Rethinking Chronic Pain”
PainWise – Innovative Pain Education
Hello! It has been radio silence for a while but I have been working on a project and my BIG NEWS is that we are about to launch a new pain education program at Vibe Natural Health called PainWise. I am so excited about this 4-week education program because I know how powerful knowledge isContinue reading “PainWise – Innovative Pain Education”
Turmeric, a super spice for pain
If you do a quick search about Turmeric on the Internet you may begin to wonder what it canโt do. The list of benefits reported is extensive and the diseases it is purported to treat are numerous. This super-spice is popping up in all sorts of interesting ways from Turmeric lattes to fermented drinks. ItContinue reading “Turmeric, a super spice for pain”
A high fat diet worsens post-operative pain and inflammation
Obesity commonly correlates with increased pain. One of the mechanisms for this is relatively straightforward; having central adiposity (fat around the stomach region) or being obese is associated with low-grade chronic inflammation, and this, in turn, is associated with a greater incidence and severity of chronic pain conditions. In the recent study authors (Song. etContinue reading “A high fat diet worsens post-operative pain and inflammation”
Relief with opioid discontinuation
Managing persistent or chronic pain is complex. Frequently there is a lack of objective reason for persistent pain yet it is real, personal and subjective and people with persistent pain are of then desperately seeking effective pain relief. I recently attended an โExplain Painโ course in Cairns (which was lovely and warm), which looks atContinue reading “Relief with opioid discontinuation”