Pain can keep us from realizing our best selves. Holistic, non-pharmacological therapies can recharge, rebalance, and restore our energies before pain can take hold. [...]
Alicia Recore, Ph.D., MBA, project director of the Holistic and Integrative Therapy Program at St. Peter's Hospital, discusses how massage therapy can help reduce pain, decrease stress, and restore energy for laboring mothers. [...]
Educating ourselves about the roles of diet, emotional state, spiritual purpose, exercise, quality of life and stress can divert pain before it has the chance to emerge in our bodies. [...]