James Campbell, MD
Vital signs are measurements of the body’s most basic functions and are used to detect or monitor medical problems. Vital signs can be measured in…
Prince
Prince, who died in April at age 57, sang openly about emotional anguish—and about sex, religion, race, and nearly every other challenging topic. But despite…
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)
When patients living with chronic pain are referred to pain management specialists, it is often because they have already tried multiple therapy options without finding…
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
In 1994, the International Association for the Study of Pain pain as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage…
Charles Argoff, MD
Charles Argoff, MD, hadn’t planned to go into pain medicine. But as a medical resident in neurology in the mid-1980s, he noticed that nearly everyone…
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Rewiring the Brain to Heal
Neuroscientists estimate that it can take as little as a tenth of a second to notice a threat—an aggressive face, for example, but much longer…
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Blacklist Royals
Anyone who has come home at the end of a tough day and relaxed to the sounds of a favorite song or artist knows that…
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Access to Care
When it comes to the challenges of working within the health care system, our family has gotten plenty of experience as we’ve dealt with my…
Waging a War on Pain
Chester “Trip” Buckenmaier III, MD, can see the silver lining in a black cloud. The program director for the Defense and Veterans Center for Integrative…
Robbie Ventura
International cyclist Robbie Ventura never embraced the words slow down until a devastating crash knocked him off his bike and into the world of chronic…