You Are Not Your Pain – Sit Down, Slow Down
This second of a three-part series explores the first four meditations in the book You Are Not Your Pain: Using Mindfulness to Relieve Pain, Reduce Stress…
Advances in Neuromodulation
Approximately one in three Americans suffers from chronic pain, leading to escalating health care costs and a growing interest in treating chronic pain sustainably, but…
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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…
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….
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Opioid Overview
The number of Americans who suffer from chronic pain is staggering. It’s around 50-100 million, says Jeff Gudin, MD, the director of Pain Management and…
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Caregiver’s Depression
The day never seems to end. Your elderly father needs you all the time. He is in constant pain and you are at your wit’s…
You Are Not Your Pain – Authors
Vidyamala Burch I had just turned twenty-three when I visited my parents’ home in Wellington, New Zealand, for the Christmas holidays. Early on the morning…
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Compounding Pharmacies
A century ago, well before there were chain drugstores on every corner and shelves stocked with manufactured pharmaceuticals, town druggists would create prescriptions based on…
Food & Pain
Most of us have heard the saying, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away,” and many of us grew up with mothers telling us…
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Lou THE HULK Ferrigno
Although The Incredible Hulk went off the air in 1982, Ferrigno is still recognized as the man behind the green super-human with bulging biceps. And…