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It’s the weekend, so that means a weekly round-up of the most popular posts. Here we are:
Topical NSAID As Effective As Tablets For Knee Pain
Numbing gel eases pain from mammograms
Pregnancy and migraines
The pain of pleurisy
Company’s calling: For Grace’s founder, Cynthia Toussaint speaks out
Legitimate patients with chronic pain vs drug seekers
Gastric bypass/kidney stone connection?
10 causes of […]
The pain of a broken heart is more than missing someone who you loved - it can result in actual physical chronic pain.
According to the article, How emotional pain can really hurt, “new brain scanning technologies are revealing that the part of the
brain that processes physical pain also deals with emotional pain.”
Apparently, chronic pain is […]
According to a study published in 2006, listening to music can reduce chronic pain by more than 20%. They found that people who listened to music for an hour every day for a week reported improved physical and psychological symptoms compared to the control group.
The small study included 60 patients with a variety of painful […]
P is for…
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and P is for:
Post-polio syndrome: After polio was stopped in its tracks because of mass vaccination campaigns, not many people gave the disease a second thought. Sadly though, many polio survivors are beginning to experience problems - many years later - that are the […]
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N is also for…
Neuropathy: Pain caused by the nerve endings is called neuropathy. The most common neuropathies are diabetic neuropathy, a long-term effect of diabetes, and postherpetic neuralgia, which some people develop after having shingles.
NSAIDs: Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories, (NSAIDs) are pain relievers that include acetomeniphen (Tylenol), ASA (Aspirin), […]
Company’s Calling, a popular Monday feature, hasn’t appeared for a while because I ran out of volunteers who wished to be interviewed. I would love to get the feature going again because I get emails (and comments) from people who appreciate learning how others have dealt with and who are dealing with their issues of […]
M is for magnet…and how this blog keeps drawing you back! :-)
But seriously, M is for:
Migraine: Absolutely incredibly horrible head pain that can be accompanied by nausea, and inability to tolerate the light and many other sensations. Some good links for migraine information are:
Help for Headaches and Migraine Pain
American Headache Society
ClusterHeadaches.com
Metastasis: People who have cancer […]
It’s time people started understanding the realities of narcotics and opioids, much-needed medications for so many people.
I don’t think the true action and benefit of narcotics and opioids (controlled prescription drugs) have ever been truly understood. And then, when the US government started its war on drugs, the people who needed the medications the most […]
What timing. Here is a great follow-up to my article yesterday on Lyme disease and the difficulty of living with the chronic pain from the infection.
According to the CNN article 10-year battle with pain highlights Lyme disease debate, Mandy Hughes has been fighting Lyme disease for 10 years, from the time she was infected at […]
Earlier, I had a post on how smokers had more back pain than non-smokers (Smokers have more back pain) and this morning, I found this article: Study Shows That Pain Causes Increased Desire To Smoke Cigarettes.
According to the article, “In a recent study published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Moffitt researchers found for the […]
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