Can Diet Improve Pain?
Nutritional Pain Management
Supporting Treatment for Headaches
and Neuropathy
Evidence shows that consuming a typical American diet
“resulted in altered acute nociceptive sensitivity, systemic inflammation, and persistent pain…”
At the 2018 Kaua’i Pain Conference, Dr. Robert Bonakdar will teach:
- The interrelationships between cellular and molecular mechanisms of pain
- How C-reactive protein and obesity relate to the prevalence of developing chronic low back pain
- The relation of vitimin deficiencies, cardiometabolic mediators, obesity and and inflammatory mediators
Objectives
- How diet can address pain
- Review research (basic, observational and clinical) behind nutritional approaches to pain and inflammation
- How to implement nutritional strategies for pain patients
Additional Resources
- Totsch SK, Waite ME, Tomkovich A, Quinn TL, Gower BA, Sorge RE. Total Western Diet Alters Mechanical and Thermal Sensitivity and Prolongs Hypersensitivity Following Complete Freund’s Adjuvant in Mice. J Pain. 2016
