Don’t Let Pain Define You
Living with severe pain can be a trigger for depression, a sense of loss of who you are and who you will become, and a belief that you can’t…
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Personalized Medicine Through Pharmacogenetics
THIS YEAR, 38-YEAR-OLD ACTRESS AND PHILANTHROPIST ANGELINA JOLIE HELPED RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT THE POWERFUL BENEFITS OF GENETIC TESTING. IN MAY, WHEN TEST RESULTS INDICATED THE…
Maya Angelou Chooses Joy
While many people may define Maya Angelou, PhD, by her literary skill, humanitarianism and an extraordinary list of achievements, this author, poet, professor, mother and…
Getting Real With Pain
For Grace will host its 6th Annual Women In Pain Conference on Sept. 13 at the California Endowment’s Center for Healthy Communities in downtown Los Angeles. The conference…
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Are Flip Flops the Wrong Footwear for You?
As the summer draws to a close, many of you may be lamenting that your favorite shoes of the summer will be packed away until…
Living With Pain: The Challenge of Habituation
I have written a number of blog posts about the relationship issues associated with chronic pain. Today, I want to focus on your relationships with family –…
Chronic Pain Can be Lonely: Nine Ways to Reconnect
Chronic pain can make it hard to feel connected to others. Pain puts a strain on friendship – whether you have fibromyalgia, headaches, back pain,…
Microcurrent Point Stimulation
Scar tissue, depending on the location, may cause pain throughout the body. When Quentin Glenn complained of leg and back pain to her physical therapist…
Pain and Anxiety: Rinse It Out
In spin class, I have frequently heard instructors say “rinse it out” after a particularly intense bout of cycling. I have always supposed that they are…
What Are The Barriers To Sex?
Paul Karoly, Aaron Taylor, and I conducted a study of over 2,000 people with different forms of chronic pain from across the United States and found that 63%reported that pain interfered…