Nip Pain in the bud & let your Soul blossom: November 2014

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! The Featured Blog Posts this week are “Adapting to Fibromyalgia”, “Pain and Emotions” and “My Life in Dog Years.” Remember that even if a featured post is focused on one particular pain condition, it may contain information or ideas that are useful to those with other pain issues.

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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*ALERT*

Medical firm profited on pain with knockoff spine surgery hardware

*MEDICATION NEWS

Study Further Explores Costs Associated with Chronic Pain

Scientists close in on non-addictive opioid painkillers

Opioid use may increase mortality in chronic pain patients; Unclear whether the cause is the opioid Rx or the seriousness of the pain problem

Hope that a prescription can mimic marijuana’s benefits

Marijuana's long-term effects on the brain demonstrated

Bill Introduced in Congress To Streamline Drug Development Process and Protect Patient Access to Medications

A Push to Back Traditional Chinese Medicine With More Data

opinion: Memo To The Gov.-Elect of MA - Include Pain Sufferers As You Seek Opiate Solution

*CHRONIC PAIN NEWS

Consumer Pain Groups Unite to Promote, Support and Monitor the National Pain Strategy

Canadian Pain Coalition States Urgency to Improve Chronic Pain Awareness and Access to Multidisciplinary Treatment Options

High Prevalence of Falls, Fear of Falling, and Impaired Balance in Older Adults With Pain in the United States

First of Its Kind Program Aims to Break the Chronic Pain Cycle

Cold-induced pain linked to the garlic, mustard receptor

Disrupting Calcium Channel Communication Key To Reversing Chronic Pain, Study Finds

Rare Disease Patient Voices Bring Change To The Clinical Trials Process

*PEDIATRIC PAIN

Adolescent chronic pain costs $19.5 billion a year in the U.S.

Aiming for an “Acceptable” Pain Level for Children

Acupuncture Eases Pain For Children, Stanford University

Neuropathic pain underrecognized in children with advanced or chronic illnesses

Chronic pain treatment in children and adolescents: less is good, more is sometimes better

1 child every 8 minutes experiences an out-of-hospital medication error

New App Calculates Pediatric Pain Medication Dosages

For children, growing pains don’t always stop & they can become chronic pain

Video Chats Help Hospitalized Children Recover Faster

In Kids With Chronic Pain, Function Improves Faster Than Pain With Psychological Treatment

Living Life with My Child's Pain: The Parent Pain Acceptance Questionnaire (PPAQ)

Perception of venipuncture pain in children suffering from chronic diseases

Helping kids kick the pain and fear out of cancer

Migraines and Kids: How to Cope

Diagnosis and Management of Pediatric Amplified Musculoskeletal Pain

3D Printed, Fashionable Back Braces Encourage Kids with Scoliosis to Wear Them

Heroes Kit with Special Comic Book Designed to Ease the Anxiety of Pediatric Patients Undergoing an MRI Exam

Game Show Brings Fun to Kids in Children's Hospital, Helping Them to Forget Sickness, Pain

Teens with Disabilities May Face Greater Obesity Risk

Family Summer Camp for Pediatric Pain Patients - Free of Charge

The Coalition Against Pediatric Pain

Growing Pains: Website for Adolescents Living With Pain

When Your Child is Chronically Ill

Mackenzie Bearup - A Different Kind of Hero: A Teenager Transforms Her Pain Into A Way Of Helping Children

Meet the new Junior National Fibromyalgia Assoc. Spokesperson, 14-year-old Emma

'Butterfly child' with the extremely painful condition Epidermolysis Bullosa dreams of the Northern Lights

What We Can Learn From Teens with Invisible Illness like Naomi Kingery

*FEATURED BLOG POSTS

Even if a Featured Blog Post is written specifically with emphasis on one chronic pain condition, it may still have information and ideas which can help people with any type of chronic pain/illness. I always select posts which I think can provide help for the widest audience.

Adapting to Fibromyalgia: Listen to what your body is saying

by Jana Murrell-Maxfield of CFIDS & Fibromyalgia Self-Help

Pain and Emotions

by Jan Sadler of Pain Support UK

My Life in Dog Years

by Sue Falkner-Wood

"A good Garden may have some Weeds."

I like to think of Life as a Garden... with the blossoming flowers as our souls fed by the happiness we cultivate.

Chronic Pain is like a persistent weed that threatens to take over our garden when we have chronic pain/illness.

Although we may not be able to stop the invasion of weeds, we can find ways lessen their impact in our lives: to remove the weeds we can, to obstruct their growth by treating them, or to step over them & choose instead to focus on 'stopping to smell the roses'.

This blog is about living a joyful life despite chronic pain: by being educated on your pain condition, becoming a smart patient, finding inspiration, and then opening yourself up & finding creative ways to experience life.

Nip Pain in the bud & let your Soul blossom

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