Welcome to April’s Pain-Blog Carnival…  the best posts of this month.  Bloggers were busy this month writing excellent posts.  Enjoy!  Somebody Heal Me writes about being Weary of So Many Daily Medications. Laurie at A Chronic Dose explores Summer Camp, Sick Style.  (Laurie’s new book is coming out soon!) The Sassy Lime shares Tips and Tricks [...]

Our pain management series has concluded, and I’m interested in how you did! Was it helpful? Anything confusing? Are you continuing to practice all the exercises? Which ones work best for you? Please join in, in the comments below. Next Monday, we’ll be starting “Monday Chats.”  I’m envisioning these as conversations with you, as well [...]

Today’s the deadline for your April Pain-Blog Carnival submission. A reader, Lynn, writes “I would be interested in a feature related to multiple sclerosis and chronic pain.  Thank you for the empowerment and humanity your website provides – as always, knowledge is power.” Knowledge can indeed be powerful to help people understand, manage and cope with their [...]

CRPS-RSD A Better Life recently posted a link to a discussion of mirror therapy by Dr. Eric Altschuler of UMDNJ.  I recently spoke with Dr. Altschuler, who is researching mirror therapy for pain disorders, including RSD, stroke rehabilitation, and other conditions. As I’ve said before, I think these types of approaches are one of the [...]

Updated article:  Improve your sleep

A recent study showed that mindfulness exercises can significantly help low back pain in older adults. 8 sessions of training in mindfulness, which is “awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose, in the present moment and non-judgmentally, to the unfolding of experience moment by moment,” were given to older adults with chronic low back [...]

In our Monday Pain Management Classes, we’ve reviewed exercises such as meditation, breathing and relaxation.  Tranquility is Yours is a website I’ve recently come across that has these types of exercises, as well as videos of beautiful, natural places.  I especially liked their videos of the beach, waterfall, clouds, moon, and sunset.  Enjoy! The deadline [...]

Updated article:  How pain disorders cause poor sleep

A reader, Tracy, asked about computer use and pain.  In this series of 3 articles, we’ll look at this issue. In the previous 2 posts in this series, we’ve looked at: How computer use can cause pain through poor posture and repetitive movements, and What good posture is for computer use Today we’ll look at [...]

A reader, Tracy, asked about computer use and pain.  In this series of 3 articles, we’ll look at this issue. Last week we looked at how computer use can cause pain, through poor posture and repetitive movements.  Today we’ll look at what good posture is for computer use. I wrote about this topic recently at [...]