Vibration helps reduces pain in chronic sufferers, researchers find
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 09:00
in Health & Medicine
Rubbing or massaging is often an instinctive response to pain. Now researchers have found that another kind of touch, vibration, can also help reduce certain types of pain by more than 40 percent. The researchers are encouraged by the prospect that vibration therapies could bring pill-free pain relief to chronic sufferers.