Rebuild Friendships
You may have noticed that pain puts a strain on friendship. Whether you have fibromyalgia, headaches, back pain, arthritis, or other type of chronic pain, chronic…
Is Pain Management Coaching Right For You?
Chronic pain has a life-crushing impact. Becky Curtis, founder and pain coach at Take Courage Coaching, knows this firsthand. After a near-fatal car accident and subsequent development…
Talking to Your Boss About Pain
If you are like many people with chronic pain, you maintain a full-or part-time job, despite your pain. Working with chronic pain can be challenging. Occasionally,…
PR: Sex & Diet–OIC Survey
Sex, Diet & Other New Findings from OIC Patient Survey The World Institute of Pain’s PainPathways Magazine, in partnership with AstraZeneca, has released the findings of a…
Popular Adult Coloring Books Distract from Pain and More
Who knew our Facebook post on adult coloring books would cause such a stir? The post and article – Why Coloring Could Be the New Alternative to Meditation – received…
Postherpetic Neuralgia
NO ONE BELIEVED HER, and some implied she was crazy. One doctor even told her to see a psychiatrist. But 22-year-old Amy Shchrader, a respiratory therapist, had…
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PR: Breast Cancer Awareness
JOAN LUNDEN, featured in PainPathways Magazine, to Speak at NC Breast Cancer Awareness Event on October 13 Joan Lunden, breast cancer survivor, former Good Morning America host…
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Caregivers & Opioid Therapy
1 tolerance: Long-term use of opioids can lead to tolerance for the drug so that higher doses must be taken to achieve the same effect. Check…
Take One Graphic Novel and Call Me in the Morning
Explaining your chronic pain to your friends, family or boss can be difficult. But what if there were a tool, which could not only help…
Pain Pumps
“The pain went from my mid-back all the way to the toes of both my feet, he recalls. I was in agony. I couldn’t work….