At least twice a month, I’m going to feature readers’ questions.  All readers are also welcome to give your thoughts about the question in the comments!
Marc asks:  “What do you think of using hypnosis to deal with pain?”
Great question!  I teach about ½ of my patients to use hypnosis and feel it’s a great tool for people in pain [...]

All of us with chronic pain have many significant obstacles to getting better, including:

our diseases themselves, some of which aren’t “curable”
finding physicians who understand pain and can help us
tolerating medication – sometimes when medication does help, the side effects are pretty bad
trying to arrange insurance coverage for appropriate treatment

Now, imagine having chronic pain while living [...]

This article is one in a series on Medications for Pain…  what are your choices?  how do various medications work?  what are the pros and cons?  how about side effects?  (Discuss these ideas with your doctor.  Don’t make any changes to your treatment by yourself.)
Today we’ll look at the medication category of Muscle Relaxants.  Muscle relaxants [...]

Last week we looked at what the painter Renoir was willing to do to continue his art.  He was plagued with rheumatoid arthritis, but didn’t let this stop him.  He wanted to paint, so tied his paintbrush to his hand.  Wow!
How else did Renoir cope with the severe pain of his crippling disease?  He juggled!  [...]