Have you ever thought about your relationship to chronic pain? Are you a victim of it or a victor over it? When you are suffering with unrelenting pain day after day, it's very easy to slip into a victim mentality. Below are two descriptions of life with chronic pain, each given by a fibromyalgia patient. See if you can... Read more
Children with fibromyalgia or other chronic pain disorders face some special challenges as they return to school. It can be especially difficult to go back to keeping a regular schedule after being able to sleep late or rest whenever they needed to during the summer. Of course, as a parent, you want to do everything you can to make the... Read more
I recently came across a journal article titled, “New developments in the diagnosis of fibromyalgia syndrome: Say goodbye to tender points?” Since there has been some debate over the past few years as to whether or not it was time to update the method by which fibromyalgia is diagnosed, I was excited, thinking that a new... Read more
Most Americans agree that health care reform is needed – but what shape that reform takes is an ongoing debate. And how that reform will affect chronic pain patients is rarely mentioned.Personally I have a lot to gain from a health care reform policy that provides coverage for everyone because right now no one will insure me at any... Read more
"The National Institutes of Health Blueprint for Neuroscience Research is launching a $30 million project that will use cutting-edge brain imaging technologies to map the circuitry of the healthy adult human brain," according to the NIH report. By collecting brain imaging data from hundreds of subjects, the Human Connectome Project will... Read more
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