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Managing Chronic Pain - Articles
Health Tip: Managing With Chronic Pain
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HealthFinder
Posted
Tue 27 Sep 2011 1:00pm
(HealthDay News) -- Chronic pain can be physically and emotionally difficult to manage, but taking an active role in your care can help.
The Cleveland Clinic mentions these suggestions to help manage chronic pain:
Learn as much as possible about your condition, and discuss what you've learned with your doctor.
Schedule time for exercise, rest
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Massage, spinal manipulation help manage chronic pain
by
Dr. John Z.
Posted
Fri 15 Jan 2010 12:00am
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These hands-on therapies won’t always replace pain relief medications but they could help manage chronic pain. And considering recent research showing the risks from...
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Massage, spinal manipulation and other hands-on approaches can safely and effectively help with pain management.
The January 2010 issue of Mayo Clinic Women’s HealthSource
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When to start self management for chronic pain
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Bronwyn T.
Posted
Wed 10 Jun 2009 4:54pm
There’s no doubt that early self management for chronic pain is a good thing – but in our facility, we’ve always had a rather mixed feeling about introducing self management while people are still receiving medical treatment for their pain. Our experience has been that few patients are really committed to learning how to modify their lives when
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Medication and Self Managing Chronic Pain (ii)
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Bronwyn T.
Posted
Tue 16 Nov 2010 1:37pm
If medication is to be part of a toolkit for self managing chronic pain, then it seems to me that it’s important to know as much about the medication and how it should...’Brien, 2010).
To sum up so far, pain medication can be part of a toolkit of coping strategies for managing chronic pain. It’s best if medication is taken on a time contingent
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Medication and self management for chronic pain
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Bronwyn T.
Posted
Mon 15 Nov 2010 10:26am
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Despite the lack of information that I could find, more people than not are taking medication for their chronic pain, even when also using self management. The high rate... distressing to find out that there isn’t such a remedy for the very common problem of chronic pain.
Although I promote self management on this blog, I want to make it clear that I
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Medication and Self Managing Chronic Pain (iii)
by
Bronwyn T.
Posted
Wed 17 Nov 2010 3:03pm
. This is one of the critical skills for self managing chronic pain, IMHO, because it helps people develop flexible ways of coaching themselves to manage situations. It also, when all...
When discussing medication and pain reduction for chronic pain, it’s not surprising there are some very strong opinions and emotions. After all, having pain is universally
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Attention Please! Attention management for chronic pain
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Bronwyn T.
Posted
Tue 12 Jan 2010 10:04pm
people is that they have more effective self regulation skills, so they achieve more despite chronic pain – just a thought!).
The results from attention management are mixed..., A., & Kalso, E. (2009). Attention management as a treatment for chronic pain European Journal of Pain, 13 (10), 1062-1067 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpain.2008.12.002
McCracken LM, Dhingra L
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Attention management for chronic pain
by
Bronwyn T.
Posted
Mon 30 Mar 2009 3:51pm
). Attention management as a treatment for chronic pain European Journal of Pain DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpain.2008.12.002
Morley S, Shapiro D, Biggs J. Developing a treatment manual for attention
management in chronic pain. Cognitive Behav Ther 2004;33:1–11.
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What is self management in chronic pain?
by
Bronwyn T.
Posted
Thu 27 Aug 2009 9:44pm
Here’s my current take on self management in chronic pain – this is my opinion, based on my experiences and reading of the self management literature.
People are more or less...
Self management. It’s term we use very often in pain management, but do we really agree about what we’re talking about?
Maybe self management is different things
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What obstacles get in the way of self managing chronic pain?
by
Bronwyn T.
Posted
Mon 21 Jun 2010 12:38pm
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Bair, M., Matthias, M., Nyland, K., Huffman, M., Stubbs, D., Kroenke, K., & Damush, T. (2009). Barriers and Facilitators to Chronic Pain Self-Management: A Qualitative Study...
Learning to manage pain using self management strategies ain’t easy – as we know, changing habits and doing things differently is not something any of us do without
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