Dr Oz 3 Biggest Pains | Chronic Pain And How To Manage It

July 21, 2010

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Dr Oz Chronic Pain – The 3 Biggest Pains

Today On Dr. Oz Chronic Pain – The 3 Biggest Pains; Migraine Headaches, Headaches Pain; Back pain; Joint Pain.
Oz helps you identify and manage the 3 most common chronic pains, and reveals the truth behind the 3 biggest pains that millions suffer from. Understanding Chronic Pain, Dr Oz says the key to treating pain is finding its cause. Learn how to pinpoint what to do when the pain doesn’t go away. Dr Oz 3 Biggest Pains Chronic Pain And How To Manage It.

Dr Oz says pain is the #1 reason patients go to the doctor. While we’ve all experienced some form of physical pain in our lives, our injuries are usually short-lived. For about 35% of Americans, however, pain escalates into a chronic problem lasting 3 to 6 months, or even longer. Approximately 50 million Americans are disabled because of chronic pain.

Plus today it’s the Dr. Oz Healthy Housewives from Detroit – 100 days to get Beach Body Ready.

Dr. Larry Newman and Dr. Vonda Wright joins Dr. Oz today on the subject of “Chronic Pain”.

Dr. Oz talks about the 3 biggest pains that strike us, how you can fight it and win. Today we learn everything we need to know to rescue our body from our biggest pains. When pain becomes chronic – where pain signals keep firing for weeks, months, even years it can totally devastate the quality of life. Chronic pain interferes with our moods, sleep and our work, and the problem grows worse as we grow older…Manage And Control Pain!

Dr Oz 3 Most Chronic Pains

1. Headaches Pain
2. Back pain
3. Joint Pain

Migraine Headaches – The most common headache is a tension headache is described as a band around your head. A Migraine headache is the most common to bring someone to a doctor. It’s a pain usually on one side of the head, and you are sensitive to light and sometimes noise.

Larry Newman & Dr Oz Migraine Checklist

The checklist for a migraine headache to be diagnosed as having them are;

Migraine symptoms: A patient needs to have 5 prior episodes previous to going to the doctor. You need at least 2 of these symptoms in this category.

  • A migraine lasts usually 4 hours up to 72 hours
  • You need pain on one side of the head, pain that is throbbing or pounding, that is moderate to severe, pain that interferes with routine activity. Plus one of these associated with it.
  • Nausea and/or vomiting – sensitivity to light and sound

The classic trigger items for Migraine headaches are;

  • Stress
  • Changes in the weather
  • Menstrual cycle
  • Changes in hormone levels
  • The classic foods that can trigger a migraine are chocolate, aged cheese, hot dogs, or nitrate containing foods, and alcoholic beverages such as red wine.

Dr. Newman said to try and identify these triggers and avoid these foods. The non medical therapies are – Green tea for migraines, Butterbur, B vitamins and CoQ10. On a previous show Dr Oz recommended Feverfew Extract as a natural remedy for Migraines. Feverfew inhibits chemicals that give rise to migraines, and help alleviate the pain. Add a few drops in juice and it should do the trick.

Dr Oz Back Pain – Dr Vonda Wright suggested this exercise for back pain – Wall squats – partner squats for core posture. Just put your back against the wall and squat at about 60 degrees, and this will strengthen your legs, your core and rear ends all at the same time. Do this from 30 seconds up to two minutes several times a day. Click here for Dr Oz Back Pain Relief – 3 Top Causes Of Back Pain.

Dr Oz Joint Pain – Arthritis pain is aching pain, pain you get after along walk, or pain after you are dancing. It is the pain that can be hurtful at rest, and some people wake up at night with so much aching they can’t sleep. If your pain is in the front of your hips, and it feels like grinding it may be Arthritis. Pain on the sides of the hips it is usually due to Iliotibial band syndrome (ITB band Syndrome).

Dr Wright Foam Rolling

Dr. Wright says we can strengthen our cores and our rear ends, Bobbie demonstrated the exercise of Foam Rolling for us. Dr Wright says this is a miracle tool that is like deep tissue massage. What you do is you lay on the hip that hurts, and you roll this roll back and forth, and you are actually stretching the IT ban, and it’s a deep tissue massage you give yourself, and you do this everyday. Dr. Wright says ” I promise you, your pain will go away”.

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