Which came first: pain or disability?
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Bronwyn T.
‘It’s my back, the pain - I can’t do anything because I’m so sore…’ The cry of the weekend gardener! I’m one of them - I spent a good part of my Sunday out in the garden, lugging really heavy (20 litre) bags of compost about, bending, weeding, carrying - and by the end of Sunday I was walking very, very slowly… with a lot of groaning! People wit ...
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No Pain
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Vixen W.
Check this out---this is my first week ever since I hit puberty that I haven't had to take any narcotics. That's intense! I haven't had any L3's at all and barely any L2's. In fact, the only thing I've t ...
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Pain
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Weight Master E.1 Comment
Yesterday, when I was running, I had a new pain hit me. I'm not sure what it was. I was starting on my second mile, and from the left side of my neck to almost my left eblow starting hurting. It was just a sharp pain, and, as long as I held my arm up, it didn't hurt. I finished the second mile, and went inside the gym. All of my vitals were good, s ...
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Twenty-First Century Preventative Pain Management Program by Michael Gorback MD
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Dr. Douglas Farrago
Barack Obama wants docs to focus on prevention. Never mind that his doctor can't get him to stop smoking, or that the Surgeon General suffers from Chronic Biscuit Toxicity (a Southern disease). If someone isn't well it's because the doctor failed to keep them well. I'm therefore working on my Preventative Pain Management Program. Here are some idea ...
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Pain pain pain
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Lauren
Slept two hours at most last night. Having a pain flare up, for what reason I do not know. Some days I cannot deal with the mental battle of trying to manage my pain with excercises, visualizations, etc.. It’s been a long time since I’ve done this but today I just couldn’t deal with these intense aches and pains on top of no sleep so I just took my ...
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Planning taking your bad back on vacation? Read my back pain story travel tips first!
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jasmine a.
... ght there must be a way. Whether it is a short trip or a long haul flight here are some tried and tested travel tips. 1. Before you travel with your bad back. First it is important you contact your doctor to see if you are safe to travel with your back condition. Check you can get proper travel insurance and do shop ...
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Pain & Pain
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Sandi W.
... in and pain, pain that causes weeping and pain that comes with weeping, and how difficult it is to tell the difference between the two. Close readers may recall that after my first Taxol infusion, I had joint and bone pain that made me cry three days later. So I sat around and watched DVDs and TV for two days. This time around, I came armed with a ...
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Pain, Oh Pain!
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patientanonymous
... rt of hobbling around, making some cuppas, that then necessitate a few bathroom trips.Shall I take some more? It says, two four times a day. I can’t remember when I took the first two and it never said anything about divided dosing–or erm…not that term…like, spatial dosing (PA in outer space dosing?) Timed dosing. Or something. Maybe divided dos ...
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No Pain, No Pain
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Diane C.
... one more day. I started to invent excuses not to work out. That's when I started to think about what, exactly, I was doing. The whole reason I had started working out in the first place was because I wanted to feel good. That was the first -- and major problem -- I wasn't feeling all that great. I was achy and I often had to take days off to recov ...
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