Tuesday-Newsday #127

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! The Featured Blog Posts this Thanksgiving Week focus on gratitude. Both posts were written by Laura Morris at A Grateful Road: “Living Life in Gratitude” and “Your Appreciation Challenge.”

Let Me Know: If you’d like me to watch for articles on your pain condition, just drop me a note in the comments section below. 

WARNING:  My goal is to provide the most up-to-date news I can, which you can then take to your personal doctor and debate the merits of before you try it. I do not endorse any of the docs, treatments, info, and meds in anything I post nor can I guarantee they are all effective, especially not for everyone. As is the case with any health info, ALWAYS get your doctor's opinion first!

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*CHRONIC PAIN NEWS

Join Your Voice with 100,000 Others & Take the Fibromyalgia Survey for the Upcoming FDA Public Fibro Patient-Focused Meeting

This survey will help educate the FDA on how Fibro affects your life, what treatments & Rx help you, and is completely anonymous

Dreading pain can be worse than pain itself

Using bee stings to relieve pain

Pain and the Elderly

Study compares prevalence, impact of chronic pain amongst different ethnic groups

Reconceptualizing John F. Kennedy’s Chronic Pain

*MEDICATION NEWS

Opinion: Patients are becoming collateral damage in America's war on drugs: Tighter restrictions on pain medications would only contribute to needless suffering

Victims in meningitis outbreak hope for criminal charges against compounding pharmacy

Brain imaging reveals dynamic changes caused by pain medicines

AMA Opposes Legalization, Calls Marijuana ‘Dangerous Drug’

Medical marijuana use for rheumatic diseases associated with multiple risk factors

Painkillers May Ease Marijuana Side Effects

Patient story: Why I Turned to Medical Marijuana

Epidural Steroid Injections May Increase Risk for Vertebral Body Fractures

Commentary: The Quest for Alternatives to Opioids in Chronic Pain: The Role of The Interventional Pain Physician

Guideline for the Use of Chronic Opioid Therapy in Chronic Noncancer Pain: Evidence Review 

This report is from the American Pain Society and The American Academy of Pain Medicine 

*BACK PAIN

Predicting who will have chronic pain – Abnormalities in brain axons predispose people to chronic back pain after injury

Botox for backs: Chronic pain and epilepsy sufferers may get months-long relief

Fear Feeds the Pain: Suffering from Lumbago

Drug may reduce chronic pain for spinal cord injuries

The effect of propofol on the sciatic nerve

Opioid use prior to spine surgery not linked with increased postoperative complications

Analysis suggests saline shots may do just as well as steroids for lower back pain

Gel jabs in your spine can treat chronic back pain 

Bone Marrow Concentrate May Treat Chronic Low Back Pain

Study Examines Cost-Effective Approach To Treat Failed Back Surgery Syndrome

More Spine Surgery Complications for Medicaid Patients: Socioeconomic factors play a role, a new study shows

Curved soles 'no better than flats' for back pain

Low Back Pain Tied to Flat Feet: Study

Dubious Study Disclaims Vitamin D for Back Pain

Is Acute Back Pain Predictive of Chronic Pain?

Spine Injuries Raise Risk of Heart Attack or Stroke

Type of Doctor Influences Whether Treatment Involves Surgery

Do you suffer from iPosture? Tablets and smartphones are causing an epidemic of back pain as people hunch over devices

Yoga Gets Women With Back Pain Moving: Study

Easing chronic back pain with the Alexander technique

Five Back Pain Treatments to Avoid

Announcing a New Scoliosis Magazine

*FEATURED BLOG POSTS

Both posts are by Laura Morris at A Grateful Road:

~Living Life in Gratitude

~Your Appreciation Challenge