Influence of nutrition on chronic pain management: Are you what you eat?

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Influence of nutrition on chronic pain management: Are you what you eat?

Clarice Hebblethwaite

Increasing fish intake can help reduce inflammation and pain
Increasing fish intake can help reduce inflammation and pain

The foods your patient with chronic pain eats, or doesn’t eat, can affect their pain levels, so a familiarity with how diet contributes to pain, and dietary changes that can be useful to help decrease pain, is essential

This article has been endorsed by the RNZCGP and has been approved for up to 0.25 CME credits for the General Practice Educational Programme and conti
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