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Vitamin D & pain the emerging connection

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Table of Contents

  1. The burden of chronic pain
  2. Vitamin D deficiency and chronic pain link
  3. Potential mechanisms of action
  4. RESEARCH INSIGHT: Vitamin D and mindfulness have synergistic benefits on chronic pain
  5. Vitamin D clinical prescribing for pain management
  6. Summary

Feeling pain is a natural response of the body to protect further damage to tissues and reduce injury and to allow healing to occur. 

Key highlights

  • Pain that persists beyond 3 months is chronic pain
  • Research supports the improvement of vitamin D status to reduce chronic pain, with deficiency thought to be associated with increased non-specific chronic pain
  • Vitamin D receptors (VDRs) are present in numerous cell types across the body including those involved in pain signalling
  • Vitamin D may influence pain sensitivity and provide analgesic effects during inflammation and after injury through the modulation of inflammatory cytokines and prostaglandins

Topics

Back painCarpal tunnelFibromyalgiaRheumatoidArthritisDiabetic neuropathyHeadacheMigraineDysmenorrheaOsteoarthritis