Pain

Meet the woman who scrubbed her pain away and became the Queen of Clean

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After a truly shattering discovery ripped Lynsey Crombie’s world apart, she found her therapy in housework. Now that passion for cleaning has transformed her into TV and social media star the Queen of Clean. She tells Julia Llewellyn Smith how elbow grease saved her  Lynsey wears jumper and shoes, Next. Skirt, Ghost   It’s impossible … Read more

Exercise could help thousands of patients taking statins from suffering muscle pain

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Moderate exercise could help patients taking cholesterol-busting statins beat the most common side effect of muscle pain, researchers say Roughly six million people in Britain take statins at a cost of £20 per patient Less than one in ten patients who take them report some form of muscle pain Discovery could lead to ways to … Read more

Superfit woman, 32, tells of excruciating pain from the coronavirus after she caught it in Verbier

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A fit and healthy 32-year-old woman has told of the excruciating pain caused by the coronavirus after she caught it at a ski chalet in Switzerland. Rosie Parkes from White City, west London, had been in the popular Verbier at the start of March when she contracted the killer bug and travelled back to the … Read more

Julia Bradbury, 49 hid the ‘pain’ of undergoing four rounds of IVF from her mother Chrissi, 82

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It took four rounds of IVF for her to conceive twin daughters Xanthe and Zena, now 5 years old, with partner Gerard Cunningham.  And Julia Bradbury, 49, admitted she did not want to expose her mother, Chrissi, 82, to the ‘pain’ she endured when going through the invasive treatment. The TV presenter – who also … Read more

A host of quirky products claim to soothe your spine, including a bra that could BANISH back pain

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Back pain affects one third of the population at some time. JO WATERS asked Sammy Margo, a physiotherapist in North London, and Professor Rod Hughes, a consultant rheumatologist at St Peter’s Hospital in Surrey, for their take on gadgets that can give relief. We then rated them . . . GLAMORISE MAGIC LIFT POSTURE SUPPORT … Read more

Rats have empathy and avoid actions that can cause pain to fellow rodents

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Rats have empathy and avoid actions that can cause pain to fellow rodents — unless the reward is high enough, study shows Experts from the Netherlands presented rats with two treat-dispensing levers They let them pick a favourite lever then made that one give another rat a shock The rats would then change their preference … Read more

Two-minute nerve-burning blast can ease pain in creaky knees and help improve mobility 

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Two-minute nerve-burning blast can ease pain in creaky knees and help improve mobility By Roger Dobson for the Daily Mail Published: 22:30 GMT, 2 March 2020 | Updated: 22:55 GMT, 2 March 2020 A two-minute nerve-blocking procedure could help improve mobility and pain in those with osteoarthritis of the knee. The procedure involves destroying a … Read more

How a new implant, which adjusts up to five million times a day, knows when to soothe your pain 

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People suffering debilitating chronic back and leg pain are finding relief at last – thanks to an implant that delivers mild electrical pulses to the spine. These signals help block pain messages being transmitted along the nerves to the brain, so relieving symptoms. A form of the treatment, known as spinal-cord stimulation, has been carried … Read more

Pain of Greta Thunberg as she reveals her grandfather has died at the age of 94 

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Pain of Greta Thunberg as she reveals her grandfather has died at the age of 94 17-year-old posted to social media that her grandfather had died yesterday  Olof Thunberg had been due to turn 95-years-old and Greta paid tribute to him The activist described him as ‘one of the kindest people’ she had ever known   … Read more