Acute vs Chronic Pain: Differences in Treatment
Acute and chronic pain are different conditions. Confusing the two can lead to prolonged suffering. Treatment of acute pain focuses on short-term relief and healing the injury. Chronic pain treatment emphasizes long-term restoration of the affected function. In this article, I clarify these differences and explain how treatment strategies are tailored for each one. Defining […]
What Is Nutritional Psychiatry, and How Can Diet Improve Your Mental Health?
Over 2,000 years ago, Hippocrates said, “let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food.” While the term nutritional psychiatry may sound complicated, it simply refers to the relationship between food choices we make, nutrition, and our mental health. Just what Hippocrates wisely said. Nutritional psychiatry recognizes that the food we eat […]