What is Chronic Pain? Chronic pain is usually caused by an initial injury, such as a back sprain or pulled muscle. It's believed that chronic pain develops after nerves become damaged. The nerve damage makes pain more intense and long lasting. In these cases, treating the underlying injury may not resolve the chronic pain. Chronic pain is pain that lasts for over three months. The pain can be there all the time, or it may come and go. It can happen anywhere in your body. Chronic pain … [Read more...]
Fibromyalgia: Diagnosing & Development of New Criteria
January 26, 2013 by
Dr King is in the private practice of pain medicine in New York, and he is clinical professor of psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine, New York. Twenty years ago, the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) introduced the following clinical criteria for the diagnosis of fibromyalgia (FM)1: • A history of widespread pain, defined as pain present on both the left and right sides of the body and above and below the waist • Pain on palpation in at least 11 of 18 defined … [Read more...]
FIBROID PAIN – A Woman’s Strength of LOVE ~ ‘a fibroid journey’
July 16, 2012 by
A Celebration of Women shares a story that matters.... PERSEVERENCE through LOVE ...a fibroid journey ~ Sharon A nurse told me, "...'fibroid pain' is more painful then giving birth." In week 14 of my Pregnancy, is when it all went down. I found out I had these tumors with this horrible, horrible pain. The pain grew and grew, moved from the right lower area to the left full side (took about 5 days) of my belly and by time it went to the left side, I was in the hospital. … [Read more...]
Pain Relief World Summit – Healer’s Way comments here.
Last week, some of us in the Healer’s Way community joined over 60,000 people worldwide for the Pain Relief World Summit, a life-changing, online event with a very clear goal: To reveal a single, simple technique to make physical pain obsolete. >> find out about it right here: Amazingly, many of those people have since reported startling results ... Some have been able to greatly relieve conditions like back pain, knee pain, arthritis, surgery pain or fibromyalgia. Some have … [Read more...]