How you beat pain

Alternative therapies that may help relieve pain

The following is not a definitive guide to the alternative therapies available for pain relief. Instead, it lists those that have a reasonable, scient...

Drugs that relieve pain: The NSAIDs

Medical studies have demonstrated that a pain-relieving drug – such as an NSAID (non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drug) or a COX-2 – can help enormous...

Quick pain relief

Here is a checklist of some of your options for quick and effective pain relief.

Drugs that help relieve pain: the COX-2 inhibitors

To counter problems of stomach upsets with the NSAIDs, drug companies have devised two new drug families—the nonacetylated salicylates, and COX-2 (cyc...

Pain relief

Reflexology is based on the principle that by massaging one area of the body, you stimulate a reaction, or "reflex" in another, corresponding part of...

Acupuncture and pain relief

For many thousands of years, the Chinese have espoused the efficacy of acupuncture for pain relief. Surprisingly, an astonishing wealth of recently p...