Here’s a quick story that those of you with pelvic pain might get a kick out of… I was walking to work last week and passed a home that had a “for sale” sign out front.  The realtor was Prudential, but guess how I read it? Pudendal.  (That’s a nerve that goes through the pelvic region [...]

Let me know how your new habit is going here. Welcome to the February Pain-Blog Carnival, a selection of great writing related to pain from this past month.  I hope you enjoy the selections! Two new blogs to share… Stress Relief Workshop has loads of tips on stress relief. The Health Matters Show offers podcasts about health [...]

Let me know how your new habit is going here. Each Monday this series of articles will feature pain management techniques to help you decrease and cope with pain.  It’s your at-home pain management class! In this series, we’ve been looking at using pain management skills regularly.  Some of you may be doing great – practicing pain management [...]

Let me know how your new habit is going here. One of the challenges when you have chronic pain is to keep doing things.  Often you have to modify activities, or find new ones, but the important point is to keep active. But what if you’re in a wheelchair? Yes, even then! Zibin Guo, PhD, presented [...]

Let me know how your new habit is going here. This is a guest post by Dr. Scott Fried.  Dr. Fried is a Board-certified Orthopaedic Surgeon, and specialist in hand and upper extremity surgery and treating nerve pain.  He teaches patients to heal through medical self–hypnosis, as well as many other standard and alternative therapies. [...]

Each Monday this series of articles will feature pain management techniques to help you decrease and cope with pain.  It’s your at-home pain management class! Today it’s your turn to let me know how you’re doing with practicing pain management techniques, or whatever new habit you’re trying to incorporate into your life.  Write the following information below in [...]

This is a guest submission from Doreen from our December contests. My husband has RSD (a very painful neurological condition ~HtCwP).  He was injured while we were engaged and he’s never been the same since.  I barely had a chance to know him when he was the healthy, vibrant, positive man I fell in love [...]

These verses were submitted by Denise for our December contests. A Purging of Feelings Ignited Within   I often ponder if I really exist in this world.  I feel like a butterfly, floating from flower to flower, carelessly landing on random objects, not knowing where it is I am heading or what it is I am [...]

Each Monday this series of articles will feature pain management techniques to help you decrease and cope with pain.  It’s your at-home pain management class! I hope you’ve been succeeding with using pain management techniques regularly - or at least making progress in your new habit!  But none of us is perfect, and we can all use a [...]

This is a submission from Robert for our December contests. A reader Robert writes about 2 things he’s learned about managing pain: The obstetrics nurse taught me about panting to get to the other side of a contraction.  Kidney stone pain washed over me in waves, not dissimilar to my spouse’s delivery pains.  I used the panting [...]