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Vibration Helps Reduces Pain In Chronic Sufferers, UF Researchers Find

This is a discussion on Vibration Helps Reduces Pain In Chronic Sufferers, UF Researchers Find within the Education, Research and Spine Publications forums, part of the General Spine Discussion Forums category; Rubbing or massaging is often an instinctive response to pain. Now researchers have found that another kind of touch, vibration, ...

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    Rubbing or massaging is often an instinctive response to pain. Now researchers have found that another kind of touch, vibration, can also help reduce certain types of pain by more than 40 percent. The researchers are encouraged by the prospect that vibration therapies could bring pill-free pain relief to chronic sufferers.....

    Vibration Helps Reduces Pain In Chronic Sufferers, UF Researchers Find (click here for the full article at Medical News Today)

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    Default Re: Vibration Helps Reduces Pain In Chronic Sufferers, UF Researchers Find

    Very interesting and promising. CL
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    • June 2001 Bicycle accident, 2 compression fractures at T12/L1, Vertebroplasty Sept. 2001
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    • August 2008 Pulmonary embolism, double pneumonia, collapsed left lung, re-hospitalized 1 week
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    Default Re: Vibration Helps Reduces Pain In Chronic Sufferers, UF Researchers Find

    Quote Originally Posted by Cindylou View Post
    Very interesting and promising. CL
    Yeah, I thought this was really interesting.

    Justin Averna
    Founder & President, Spine Patient Society™
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    A 501(c)(3) Tax-Exempt Nonprofit & Charitable Organization


    • 1994: Football Injury, Severe Hyperextension
    • 1997: Snow Skiing Injury
    • 3/7/1997: Laminotomy L4/L5
    • 1999 & 2003: Motor Vehicle Accidents (not at fault both times) --> Grade V Annular Tears L4/L5 & L5/L6
    • 11/15/2003: 2-Level ProDisc® L4/L5 & L5/L6*, *lumbosacral transitional vertebra --> Dr. Rudolf Bertagnoli
    • 4/2008: 4.5 years pain-free before "new" leg pain
    • 5/14/2009: Dynamic Stabilization System L4/L5, Dr. Rudolf Bertagnoli
    I'm here to help.
    Questions? Suggestions? Need help with registering, creating a signature, etc.?
    justin (at) spinepatientsociety.org


    Disclosure: I have no financial relationships with any surgeons, spine clinics, device manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, etc. -- the SPS Board of Directors serve without compensation.

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