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Chronic pain victims share ‘other side’ of prescription drug abuse epidemic

PAINS Project — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 20:40:23 +0000

Published by ABC15 – Arizona They are people who feel shut out from their pharmacies, by emergency rooms, and their doctors. Already struggling with chronic pain they feel “abandoned” by a system that is now focusing on a prescription drug epidemic that’s gripped the country. Chronic pain patients have started forming their own support groups […]

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Lady Gaga Suffers from chronic Pain from Rheumatoid Arthritis

PAINS Project — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 15:25:15 +0000

Published by Inquisitr Lady Gaga always brings awareness whether it’s for her health or for the advocacy of others. The singer is gracing the cover of Arthritis magazine, which hit newsstands on Wednesday, March 28. Inside the new issue, Lady Gaga talks about her struggle with rheumatoid arthritis and how she doesn’t let it stop […]

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Chronic pain sufferers feel stigma amid opioid crackdown

PAINS Project — Sun, 26 Mar 2017 19:26:42 +0000

Published by The Tennessean Bridgette Rewick has experienced pain — sometimes agonizing — for all of her adult life. At 56 years old, the mom from Brentwood in Middle Tennessee is on disability. She doesn’t work. She can’t kneel, wear high-heeled shoes because of her constant discomfort. Pain swells through her body, moving from her […]

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Pain and the brain: How love, fear, and much more affect the experience of pain

PAINS Project — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 20:45:13 +0000

Published by Scope – Stanford Medicine In his address for last fall’s Stanford Back Pain Education Day, Sean Mackey, MD, PhD, chief of the division of pain medicine, provided insight on the many factors that affect experience of pain. “Pain is an incredibly subjective experience,” he said. This subjectivity is reflected by the wide variability […]

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Pain Is Only Half The Battle In Living With This Chronic Condition

PAINS Project — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 20:43:47 +0000

Published by The Huffington Post As someone living with systemic Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) and other chronic illnesses, I know first-hand what it means to live in chronic pain. Waking each day with the first thought being the pain ― how severe it is, and whether or not I will be able to do […]

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You see a man in a kilt. You don’t see his searing pain

PAINS Project — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 03:08:11 +0000

Published by The Kansas City Star He doesn’t play the bagpipe. Nor does the blue tartan he wears have any personal significance for the native of Hutchinson, Kan., other than that his father-in-law recommended it. Frankly, if Babb had his druthers, he happily would give up his kilt forever for the trousers he once wore […]

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The Mind-Body Connection: Reducing Chronic Pain

PAINS Project — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 20:38:45 +0000

Published by The Huffington Post Researchers at the National Institutes of Health say that 50 per cent of older adults who live independently, and 75-85 per cent of those in assisted living facilities, have chronic pain. Chronic pain can affect our sleep, appetite, mobility, mental health and our ability to live on our own. Unfortunately, […]

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My Pain is Not Me!

PAINS Project — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 08:35:36 +0000

By Suzanne Stewart – Published by National Pain Report People ask me sometimes “how can you do this? How do you do that with systemic/full body CRPS and several other high pain illnesses? How can you go here & there when you’re in pain & you don’t feel well? Don’t you get so very fatigued”? […]

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Practice Management Improvements for Chronic Pain

PAINS Project — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 08:25:55 +0000

Published by Psychiatry Advisor The Toolkit for Healthcare Professionals was recently published by the Partners for Understanding Pain, a partnership initiated by the American Chronic Pain Association (ACPA).1 This document aims to provide healthcare practitioners (HCPs) with resources to improve the care of their patients with pain. Clinical Pain Advisor interviewed Penney Cowan, founder and […]

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Living With Chronic Pain, A Healthy Sex Life Can Take Creativity

PAINS Project — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 08:12:42 +0000

Published by Huffington Post Getting Intimate with Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) Let’s not hold back on this. You’ve got Spondyloarthritis and your back and joints hurt, a lot. You’ve lost some flexibility and simply can’t get into the positions you used to be able to. Furthermore, what with the fatigue and bouts of depression, you don’t […]

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