Is Chronic Pain a Disease? My Interview with Pain Specialist, Dr. Karl Hurst-Wicker
Published by Celeste Cooper To kick off this interview, I asked Dr. Hurst-Wicker this predominant question among the scientific community, Is Chronic Pain a Disease? Here is what Dr. Hurst-Wicker had to say. Pain is a symptom of some other underlying problem, much...Here’s What We Can Do About The Chronic Pain Epidemic
Published by Huffington Post More than 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain according to the Institute of Medicine, a debilitating reality that costs the country upward of $635 billion each year in treatment and lost productivity. At the same time, the...September as Pain Awareness Month: Then and Now
by Carolyn Noel, PAINS Webmaster This year marks the 15th Anniversary of September as Pain Awareness Month. I had the opportunity to interview Penney Cowan, Founder and CEO of the American Chronic Pain Association (ACPA) about the history of this awareness effort and...The Importance of Pain Psychology Curricula in Training and Education
Published by Psychiatry Advisor In response to a call for improved pain management training from the Institute of Medicine and the Oversight Committee for the NIH Health and Human Services National Pain Strategy, a task force assessed stakeholders’ perspectives...Why I Wrote A Book About Chronic Pain
By David Nagel, MD – Published by National Pain Report As a specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation for the past 30 years, I have treated complex medical problems which we cannot cure. Our goal is to help those we work with adapt to the...Connect
