Good article about alternative therapies to help with pain management. Pain management has many conventional methods but new alternative methods are helping patients find relief. Aromatherapy and others are but an example of new ways to fight pain. These new ways give healthcare professionals other options to help their patients.
The article, “How Aromatherapy and Reflexology Are Changing Approaches to Pain Management” by Lisa Blackburn discusses this topic and how it can be utilized. The article states,
“FOR SOME CANCER patients, those who are treated with brachytherapy, the pain and anxiety that accompanies treatment can be significant. Brachytherapy is used to treat cancers that occur deep within the body, such as cervical or prostate cancer. For this treatment, the radiation source is positioned very close to the tumor itself in order to maximize the radiation dose to the cancer while decreasing exposure to normal body tissues.”
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