Nearly 50% of adults who have type 2 diabetes report suffering chronic pain, which is any pain lasting longer than three months. The study, carried out by researchers at the University of California, involved 13,171 adult participants. This is the largest study of its kind to assess a full range of pain and non-pain symptoms read more »

Being ‘extra bendy’, although usually associated with particularly elegant, supple figures (including Sarah Jessica Parker and Shania Twain), can for some be a painful, debilitating and grossly overlooked illness. Officially termed Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Type III, hypermobility is a hereditary disease caused by a genetic mutation. It causes all the moving parts in the body – read more »

TV presenter, adventurer and writer Bear Grylls has said that bowen therapy is key to ensuring his aches, pains and injuries are kept under control. The presenter, who was the youngest Brit to climb Mount Everest at 23 and is now best known for his television series ‘Man vs. Wild’ is no stranger to injuries, read more »

Labour MSP Jackie Baillie has revealed that the NHS in Scotland has spent more than £200,000 sending patients with chronic pain to England for treatment. 23 patients were sent to Bath in 2008-09, 18 in 2009-10 and 21 in the first six months of 2010- 11, amounting to a total cost of more than £620,000. read more »