Can a Healthy Diet Help Relieve Pain?

Can a Healthy Diet Help Relieve Pain? (0:33)

A healthy diet indirectly relieves pain by promoting better health overall for better healing. In this video, Devi Nampiaparampil, MD, chief of pain management at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, explains.

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A healthy diet can indirectly relieve pain. There is not a specific food that you could take that would necessarily improve pain immediately, but generally speaking if you have a healthy diet you may be in better health then that can promote healing.

Devi Nampiaparampil, MD

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About Devi Nampiaparampil, MD

Devi Nampiaparampil, MD is assistant professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Anesthesiology at NYU School of Medicine. She served as chief of Interventional Pain Management at the Department of Veterans Affairs in New York.

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