Pain Carnival: March, 2009

March 25th, 2009 · 5 Comments

Welcome to March’s Pain Carnival… the best articles of the month. Enjoy!

Chronic Illness Pain Support lists 10 Unreasonable Behaviors Your Doctor Shouldn’t Have. Do you see any you put up with?

Pain Health News looks at how the economy is affecting patients with pain.

Andrea’s Buzzing About explores unusual sleep symptoms.

This article shares information about TENS units and how they can help.

Somebody Heal Me looks at a test useful in evaluating medication overuse headache.

Fighting Fatigue presents new information about how adrenal problems may contribute to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Thanks to our contributors for all the good reading!

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The April Pain Carnival will be Wednesday, April 29. I’m going to try something new for next month – I’ll be sharing my favorite posts of the month. I hope you’ll let me know next month what you think of this new format.

Thanks to Mrs. Gemstonefor the photo at Flickr. An excellent Grand Rounds is posted at Code Blog this week.

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Bonnie Boots // Mar 30, 2009 at 10:56 am

Thanks for including my Pain Health News in your blog carnival. I’m proud to be in such good company! Dealing with chronic pain can be lonely and confusing. I’m delighted to see so many people working to lend comfort and support.
Bonnie Boots
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Pain Health News
Bonnie Boots // Mar 30, 2009 at 11:36 am

Oops! I forgot the link to my Pain Carnival post!
http://painhealthnews.com/archives/119
Pain Management // Apr 10, 2009 at 9:37 pm

To control the pain, we must attend to the specialist because we can give him what is appropriate and what we need. For example I take hydrocodone, vicodin which is medicine used to counter the chronic pain that I have for years, but I take it in moderation because I read it is a medicine that causes anxiety. We must control it as it can affect your nervous system, so do not take medicines without consultation because it really can be dangerous.
Prof Brian A Rothbart // Jul 11, 2009 at 5:38 am

Chronic musculoskeletal pain is a pandemic problem, reaching around the globe. One of the reasons for this is that, in many cases, the cause of the pain has not been resolved (or is unknown), so only the pain itself is treated. We refer to this as pain management – the individual ends up in a lifetime of medical interventions to control their pain.
A better solution is to isolate the cause of the pain, eliminate that and the pain itself is automatically eliminated. This is referred to as pain elimination (not pain management).
Fortunately, more and more is being understood on the causes of chronic pain. One book I recommend you read is a book I just published, Forever Free From Chronic Pain. It describes a very common source of chronic pain just recently discovered and a non drug, non surgical approach to eliminate that pain.

It is available at http://www.ForeverFreeFromChronicPain.com Your comments are more than welcomed.

Prof Rothbart
Prof Brian A Rothbart // Jul 11, 2009 at 5:54 am

Recent research has linked a forward head position as one of the causes of chronic headaches.

The mechanism is thought to be Cerebral Ischemia (decrease in blood flow to the kink in a water hose – it diminishes the flow of water through that hose. The same mechanism occurs when you have a forward head position. It can potentially reduce the blood flow through the carotid arteries. (main artery from the trunk of the body to the head).

For more information, go to my research blog site – Forward Head Position at http://blog.rothbartsite.com/search.aspx?q=forward%20head%20position&sc=t&dt=3m&al=none

Prof Rothbart