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Living with chronic pain means adapting and learning ways to navigate and deal with it every day. The twelve Ps offer a road map to managing activities, stressors and challenges we face daily. Prevention This is anticipating triggers that exacerbate pain and doing whatever is necessary to reduce them in our lives. Look into: Bedding,… Continue reading The 12 Ps of Pain Management
Many chronic pain patients tell me how difficult it is to get through the day without treatments that require a therapeutic intervention like physical therapy, massage, and acupuncture. Or space, time, and equipment are needed for options like Tai Chi, yoga, and exercise. They want techniques that can be done anytime, anywhere. Here’s a quick… Continue reading 20 Ways to Lessen Pain in the Middle of a Busy Day
Chronic pain is an intractable problem affecting up to a third of the U.S. population. It costs the U.S. more than 600 billion dollars in medical interventions and lost work time, has fueled and cost the lives of far too may souls from the opioid epidemic and impacts the health and welfare of everyone it… Continue reading Retraining the Brain
Acupuncture has become a popular alternative treatment for chronic pain. It’s a traditional Chinese practice dating back over 3,000 years ago. It was described by a European doctor, Ten Rhijne, in the 1600’s when he worked for the East India Company and first used in the U.S. in the 1950’s as a treatment for a… Continue reading Electroacupuncture
Last week we discussed the areas of the brain that are involved in how we process pain as they were identified on functional MRIs. Together they are known as the pain matrix: Primary somatosensory cortex Secondary somatosensory cortex Anterior cingulated cortex Insular cortex Prefrontal cortex Thalamus Not only are these different parts of the brain… Continue reading How We Can Impact the Pain Matrix