While some of my more technologically-astute readers will think I’m ooohing and aaahing over sliced bread, here’s a great feature for the rest of us to discover… RSS feeds.

Do you sometimes forget to check your favorite blog and miss a good post?  Or, do you sometimes check several times and nothing new has been added?  Well, [...]

Unfortunately, even kids can get chronic pain conditions.  Here’s an interview with a 10 year old girl who has chronic pain.
How to Cope with Pain: Can you tell us a little about you?
“L”: I’m 10. I have a cat and a hamster.  My stomach started hurting in 2005.

HTCWP: What has been your personal experience with [...]

Family Issues #7
On Fridays, I’ve been having a series of posts about family issues and your pain. Pain conditions affect not only you, but also your family… your husband or wife… your children… your Mom and Dad… even your friends.
These posts are excerpts from a handout for family members (and friends) of patients with pain [...]

Many interesting comments were made on my posts about graded motor movements and Dr. Lorimer Moseley’s interview about his research.  I’ve asked Dr. Moseley 2 questions as follow-up.  (As always, do not undertake this treatment, nor any other, without first consulting with your doctor.)
1. Nickie asks, “I’m visually impaired and have CRPS/RSD. Could this technique [...]

Want to hear from someone else who experiences chronic pain?  This is an interview from “Jeisea,” a wife and mother who lives in Australia.  Her website, CRPS/RSD A Better Life, is a great mix of her thoughts and experiences about living fully with chronic pain.  (As every patient is different, the treatments she discussed are [...]

Family Issues #6
From a drug rehab website, I learned    

“dinosaur” is someone in his 40’s or 50’s who uses heroin   
“criss-crossing” is setting up a line of heroin next to a line of cocaine and, through a straw in each nostril, snorting half of each line, then switching and snorting the other half lines
“goat” is heroin
“white mosquito” is cocaine

Very [...]

Guess how much training pharmacists get in pain medicine and pain medication over their 4 years of schooling?
1 day!  That’s out of 4 years, which is 1,460 days.  So about 0.6% of their time - less than 1% of their training.  But guess how much of their day involves working with pain medication prescriptions… 25%!  Not a great [...]

Here’s a quiz…  For the first time ever, more people are doing what than trying marijuana for the first time?
What’s your guess??
 

Family Issues #5
On Fridays, I’ve been having a series of posts about family issues and your pain. Pain conditions affect not only you, but also your family… your husband or wife… your children… your Mom and Dad… even your friends.
These posts are excerpts from a handout for family members (and friends) of patients with pain [...]

We’ve been discussing graded motor imagery training to decrease pain.  The first step of the program is looking at pictures of feet and hands, and figuring out if they’re right or left limbs.  The ”Recognise” program that Dr. Moseley spoke of is located on the lower right side of the website.
(If it loads slowly, practice relaxation breathing while [...]