Sentences with phrase «interrupt pain signals»

I know you are thinking to yourself that heat feels much better, but the ice treats the cause of the pain (inflammation) whereas the heat serves to interrupt pain signals temporarily and does not generally reduce the inflammation.

Find a pain specialist «There are a growing number of pain specialists who have more and more methods to treat pain, like interrupting pain signals,» says Timothy Moynihan, MD, a medical oncologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. «Talk to your oncologist about referring you to a pain clinic; most of the major cancer centers will have them.

The idea of interrupting pain signals is also the basis for another alternative therapy — transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS).