Admin If it’s possible to find the right balance, and if the patient has the temperament for it, there is more evidence out of University of California, San Fransisco campus pointing to drugs controlling chronic pain. According to this Huffpost article: The study, published this month in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, found that patients who use … Read more
Scott Glaser, MD, DABIPP, president of Pain Specialists of Greater Chicago and a board member of American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, and Steven P. Cohen, MD, director of medical education for the pain management division at Johns Hopkins and director of pain research at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, discuss eight myths surrounding … Read more
WebMD has published an article reviewed by their Chief Medical Editor – Dr. Michael W. Smith Fibromyalgia is a condition that affects over 5 million Americans and approximately 500,000 Canadians. The decreased brain activity … suggests that the brain is working more efficiently,” says study researcher Brian Walitt, MD, in a news release. “We also … Read more
There is a recently study referenced on the Women’s College Hospital website citing a study performed at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology that women who don’t get enough sleep are much more likely to suffer from Fibromyalgia: The researchers found that women with sleep problems were significantly more likely to develop fibromyalgia than … Read more
There has been a dramatic increase in the number of babies born with additions to pain killers – additions they have because their mothers were on the drugs while pregnant. USA Today reports that while there are no surveys that cover the entire US (or Canada) on this issue, here are few highlights of the … Read more
Pain can affect anyone, and famed Hollywood actor George Clooney is no exception. He recently told Rolling Stone Magazine about how he suffers from back pain and headaches years after his 2005 accident on the set of Syriana. His back was so damaged, at times spinal fluid would leak from his back. He would even … Read more
The International Headache Society’s (IHS) International Classification of Headache Disorders, 2nd Edition (ICHD-II), is considered the gold standard for defining and assessing headaches. They revised the ICHD-II with this criteria for chronic Migraine: Headache (tension-type and/or migraine) on ≥15 days per month for at least 3 months* Occurring in a patient who has had at … Read more
If you think you are a migraine sufferer, there are a few basic questions you should ask yourself. The questions, known effectively as the MIDAS test, will help you and your health care provider better understand your headaches – a critical first step to effective treatment. We found this online test, (developed by Richard B. … Read more
Here is a great and positive example of overcoming chronic pain, as told to Barb Berggoetz at the Indianapolis Star (http://indystar.com). It’s the story of a person (it would have been nice if their name was included) who suffers from pain resulting from a herniated disc operation in 1978: In my late 30s, my back … Read more
In May, a report published in the Journal of the International Association For The Study Of Chronic Pain showed how recreational exercise, particularly in older women, was very beneficial for the reduction of feeling Chronic Pain. From the study’s abstract: For those aged 20–64 years, the prevalence of chronic pain was 10–12% lower for those … Read more