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Have you given up on New Year's resolutions because you haven't stuck to them in the past or because you've lost hope that things can be better for you, especially in terms of chronic pain management? Here are some pointers that can help you succeed in 2024. New Year's Resolutions: an American Tradition   As the new year approaches, we think about making a commitment to ourselves to make changes that would improve our lives. The most common resolutions, according to one poll, are: Exercise more (38 per cent) Lose weight (33 per cent) Eat more healthily (32 per cent) Take a more active approach to health (15 per cent) Learn new skill or hobby (15 per cent) Spend more time on personal wellbeing (12 per cent) Spend more time with family and friends (12 per cent) Drink less alcohol (12 per cent) Stop smoking (9 per cent) The sad fact is only 8% of New Year's resolutions stick, but there are ways to improve their success rate. Pain Patients Can Resolve Now to make lifest...

  By: Dr. Michael J. Cooney, Clinical Director, Calmare Therapy NJ USA For many people battling neuropathy, traditional pain management does not yield sustained pain relief or fails to reduce pain at all. Unpleasant medication side effects debilitate others. Parents often choose not to give their children prescription pain medications designed for adults. When traditional medical care fails these pain sufferers and their loved ones, they face a difficult dilemma— what now?   As a pain management practitioner, I faced the same challenge with a growing segment of my patients. In 2010, after a two-year search for a drug-free therapy that didn’t cause my patients added pain, I discovered Calmare scrambler therapy. How does scrambler therapy treat nerve pain? The Calmare MC-5A medical device creates a low-energy electrical impulse that delivers a “no-pain” signal to the brain through 16 distinct algorithms. The goal of this painless process, performed only by clinically trained hea...