In pain? When medicine fails, try self-help

Article Abstract:

Self-Help in Pain (Ship) has campaigned since 1982 for pain control to be recognised as a specialty. Drugs do not always obliterate pain but management of pain can be taught as in hospices. Once patients accept that the pain will not disappear, they learn to live with it. There are good days and bad days, but patients must not overdo it on good days. The right exercise, relaxation and pacing oneself are beneficial. Pain relief nurses in each health district should visit patients at home to assess them.

Methods, Political activity, Pain, Pain management, Self-help groups, Self help groups, Self-care, Health, Self care (Health)

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Taking the hospital out to the patients

Article Abstract:

Dr Barry Gray, consultant chest physician at London's King's College Hospital goes out to see his patients rather than have them make appointments to come and see him. For six months he has been attending 12 general practitioners' surgeries throughout the deprived Camberwell Health Authority area to see his asthma, emphysema and other patients. This means patients can be seen much sooner than if they had to make hospital appointments and long waits in hospital waiting rooms are also avoided.

Services, Asthmatics, Hospital consultants

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A wee drop is good for you

Article Abstract:

The journal 'Medical Hypotheses' published a report from the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, that urine drunk in the early morning cures jet lag because it contains the hormone melatonin. Urine therapy is practised in Ayurveda, the ancient Indian medicinal system. Arthur Lincon Pauls, an osteopath, advises the therapy for asthma, excema and bad eyesight. He has drunk his own urine for 20 years and believes it improved his eyesight, blood pressure and weight.

Health aspects, Melatonin, Urine

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