Knights of the Pain Table

A Camelot for Sufferers of Chronic Pain

Link Between Low Potassium Levels and Incident Type 2 Diabetes Disparity

Lady Sharon | March 8, 2011

Low Potassium Levels and Type 2 Diabetes African Americans are twice as likely to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes than whites. A new study by John Hopkins University School of Medicine researchers, in the US, found that African Americans had lower potassium levels in their blood than caucasians. The findings show, therefore, that potassium [...]

Burn Victims Helped by Skin Gun that Sprays Their Own Regenerated Skin Stem Cells

Lady Sharon | February 14, 2011

Cell Spray Gun ‘So if we can find a way to get as much normal healthy skin as we want within a week – well that is the holy grail of burn surgery.’ Dr Steven Wolf, of the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research in San Antonio When someone receives second degree burns, the standard [...]

Patients with Chronic Pain Are Not Receiving Adequate Relief

Lady Sharon | July 24, 2010

Chronic Pain Deborah Mitchell on EmaxHealth wrote an interesting article concerning chronic pain patients and how effectively they are treated.  The research suggests that many chronic pain patients are not given adequate pain relief in our present medical systems.  For those who have experienced chronic pain, this news confirms their experiences. Pain Management expert Kathryn [...]

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Reduced When Morphine Given to Wounded Soldiers

Lady Sharon | January 28, 2010

An interesting study took place on 700 troops in Iraq that were injured between 2004 to 2006.    In the study they gave morphine to wounded troops and found that it helped reduce the psychological fallout of war.    The U.S. Naval Research Center, who led the study, found that giving morphine, cut in half the chance [...]

The Knight’s Journal – Medical News Fibromyalgia, Chronic Pain and Stomach Cancer

Lady Sharon | January 8, 2010

The Knight’s Journal E Medieval Messenger from the Dark Times Fibromyalgia Does not seem to be a Rheumatologic Disease Since the 1950’s fibromyalgia was thought to be a rheumatologic disorder because it was characterized by musculoskeletal pain similar to other rheumatologic diseases.    Patients with Fibromyalgia have tender points on their body. However, studies have [...]

Balloon Sinuplasty – Sinus Sufferers Helped with Radical New Surgical Procedure

Lady Sharon | January 3, 2010

Balloon Sinuplasty For those sinus sufferers, who are plagued with painful symptoms that have not responded to standard treatments, there is some hope in a new surgical procedure for chronic sinusitis. After trying medications and antibiotics for relief, usually patients would consider undergoing Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery (FESS).     In this surgery bone and tissue are [...]

Revolutionary Treatment for High Blood Pressure – Renal Sympathetic Nerve Ablation

Lady Sharon | December 28, 2009

Renal Sympathetic Nerve Ablation A new exciting development has happened in Britain concerning a procedure that appears to reduce blood pressure. A team at the London Chest Hospital carried our the procedure, called “Renal Sympathetic-Nerve Ablation, in one hour.   The Daily Telegraph observed the procedure and is now making the results public. Dr Mel Lobo, [...]