by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | Addressing Your Pain
A 2003 systematic review of antidepressant treatment for chronic back pain concluded they produce only moderate symptom reduction (Staiger et al., 2003). Another recent review concluded that many drugs used for back pain are no more, or only slightly more, effective...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
In the last couple posts (https://www.bowencollege.com/insights-from-gabor-mate-on-emotions-and-health/) I discussed the implications of the faulty assumption that somehow people suppressed their emotions. We’ve seen why this doesn’t make sense and can’t be true....
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
In my last post I addressed the concern of patients’ who had conditions neglected by health care providers as a result of the inability to attach a name to a condition, with the requisite drug therapy dictated. A while back I had a patient who came to see me with a...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
What is the doctor’s role in the disillusion of patients suffering in pain? Does our failure to fully disclose the subtleties of dealing with pain, opting for the easy short term “solution,” play a destructive role? Research in psychoneuroimmunology shows the...
