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Mind (#1- Mindbody Training)
I did a Google search for ‘meditation and pain management’ and got about 500,000 results. In itself this doesn’t really prove that meditation works but it shows a huge interest. A search for ‘magnet therapy for pain’ yielded over 130,000 results, even though magnet therapy has been almost completely discredited by scientific testing. A search on PUB MED, a scientific database, yielded 1943 citations on meditation and 201 clinical trials since the year 2000. A clinical trial is a way of testing a treatment, much like drug testing (see TESTING). Unlike magnet therapy, meditation has consistently been shown to be effective in pain management when tested. (May I suggest you do your own Pub Med search on magnets for pain if you are a believer in this treatment?) At this stage of our understanding, the evidence for the usefulness of meditation … [Read More...]
Who We Are
Jan Carstoniu, MD, FRCPC Medical Director Dr. Carstoniu has been a licensed physician in the province of Ontario since 1986. He is a certified Anesthesiologist and has maintained a practice in the management of chronic pain since 1993. Prior to entering medical studies he was a licensed psychologist in the province of Quebec. In addition to hi s medical training, Dr. Carstoniu has been a lifelong student of Eastern health and martial arts. " Logic and intuition, reason and emotion, the rational and the spiritual, are sides of the same of the same coin. When Western science joins … [Read More...]
drugs – article series
Thinking About Drugs (#1-Drugs)
The very word drug, immediately conjures a multitude of connotations that reflect our many views of the pharmaceutical and herbal substances we ingest. … [Read More...]
Molecules (#2-Drugs)
I’ve already defined as a drug, anything you swallow, inject, inhale or absorb through body tissue to modify some mental or physical function. (See Drug … [Read More...]
Testing (#3-Drugs)
There are really only two main ways to determine if a drug does what it is supposed to do. One way is to give the drug to people and observe what happens. … [Read More...]
Risk and Benefit (#4-Drugs)
What if there was a drug that could completely relieve your pain but carried a 1 in a hundred thousand chance of killing you? Would you try it? What if … [Read More...]
Opioids – Threat or Menace? (#5-Drugs)
Please forgive me for paraphrasing the title of an article about drug use published in the humor magazine the National Lampoon more than 30 years ago. … [Read More...]
Stories
The Boat Story
by Eric Reynolds. In 1994 I had my most personal experience with chronic pain. It started in late September of that year with a simple and often repeated movement. That of lifting a small rowboat. Actually the magic moment happened after I had put the boat down and generated an adventure in pain that became my motivator for teaching Mindbody Training methods to people dealing with similar issues. I was at our family cottage and we were closing it for the season. This involves putting all the lawn … [Read More...]
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