Tips to Help Chronic Pain without Drugs in Alliance [Video]

Chronic pain is a serious condition that affects millions of Americans. Researchers report that 50.2 million (20.5 percent) U.S. adults experience chronic pain based on analysis of the new NHIS data.

Chronic pain is also expensive to diagnose, expensive to treat accurately, and expensive to live with long-term. The financial burden is one of the biggest unseen challenges of living with chronic pain in Alliance.

Drugless pain relief is exactly that – achieving relief from pain using methods outside of pharmaceutical prescription drugs. Examples of common drugless pain relief include: cold packs, heating pads, exercise, physical therapy, occupational therapy, mind-body techniques, yoga, tai chi, biofeedback, music therapy, therapeutic massage, and some kinds of non-invasive devices.

A permanent solution often occurs when the root cause of the pain is effectively addressed. Unfortunately because chronic pain develops over time and can manifest in such a wide variety of ways for different individuals, …