Medical Research

A great video with some very clear thoughts and evidence about what we can do to help ourselves. Well worth the 9 minutes!

This video is much more geared to the medical community than for the patient world, but we thought the general idea was well presented, and the graphics are pretty impressive too! The video will show you how pain travels to the brain, how the body reacts and how the pain is dealt with by the … Read more

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

Fibromyalgia: Overview of Etiology, Pathophysiology, Treatment, and Management is a downloadable PDF report that explains Fibro in an understandable way for the patient, but is really geared for a diagnosing (family or general) practitioner. The article was published in Pain Medicine News, December 2011 edition, and was written by Dr. Charles E. Argoff: Professor of … Read more