by Myra Christopher, PAINS Director Penney Cowan has lived with chronic pain for most of her life and is the Founder of the American Chronic Pain Association (ACPA). Her advocacy work is peppered with the creation of innovative projects and programs. Perhaps, one of the most powerful of her ideas was establishing September as Pain Awareness […]
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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 bio-psycho-social-spiritual challenges they face. One common denominator of many of […]
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Coming Soon – A Happy Seven: An Experimental Short Film About Fibromyalgia
By Melissa Swanson – Published on ProHealth.com I was attending a fibromyalgia support group meeting at the Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute where I met Sophie Meath, Director of A Happy Seven. She had asked if she and a few of the actors could attend a meeting, listen and ask questions. It was at the beginning of […]
Black History Month: Structural Violence in Pain Management
by Myra J. Christopher, Director of PAINS I live in Kansas City, 239 miles due west of Ferguson, Missouri, which in 2015 became the epicenter of racial tension in our country. When I learned last week that the Justice Department is bringing charges against the City of Ferguson for blatant discrimination in policing, I thought about physician/anthropologist […]
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Book Revew: The Painful Truth
by Carolyn Noel, PAINS Webmaster As a person who lives with pain, I found reading The Painful Truth: What Chronic Pain Is Really Like and Why It Matters to Each of Us to be a surprisingly emotional experience. Right from the introduction where Dr. Webster shared his purpose for writing the book, his compassion for people like […]
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Change Through The Painful Truth: A Book and TV Documentary
by Lynn Webster, MD Most of us react the same way when we see a child with a skinned knee: we provide first aid and comfort and do so quickly. That’s easy. But when a child has serious pain, and can’t express it, we’re not sure how to help. Inevitably, we feel frustrated and helpless. […]
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Generation After Generation
by Myra Christopher Last Sunday, I had the privilege of speaking at a book signing in Kansas City. I had not met Carolyn Johnson, the author of Sickle Cell Disease and My Life Struggles, until then, but I know her brother, Jonathon, pretty well. Jonathon is a member of the PAINS Citizen Leader Advisory Group. […]
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How Will Cake Portray People Living with Pain?
by Carolyn Noel, PAINS Webmaster For the last several months, I’ve been hearing about the new movie, Cake, starring Jennifer Aniston. Ms. Aniston was nominated for a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Claire Simmons whose “physical pain is evident in the scars that line her body and the way she carries herself, wincing with […]
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Constructed Images-Pain Care and Pain Politics in Recent U.S. History
by Richard Payne, M.D. Many years ago I attended a conference in Houston that discussed the “decriminalization” of cancer pain.1 The lectures and deliberations focused on the burning issues of that time in which terminally ill cancer patients reporting severe pain were being denied opioid analgesics and physicians feared punishment for prescribing these drugs. It […]
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