Pain Awareness Month, New Fibromyalgia Treatment, Back to School...

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Share and Support September 2, 2011
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September is Pain Awareness Month

An estimated 116 million US adults suffer with chronic pain – twice as many people as have heart disease, stroke, cancer and diabetes combined.  The financial cost of all this pain is $560–635 billion each year.

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Vagus Nerve Stimulation: Promising Fibromyalgia Treatment Possibility

Karen Lee Richards | Posted: Aug 31, 2011

A pilot study published online this month in the journal Pain Medicine evaluated the safety and effectiveness of vagus nerve stimulation for patients with treatment-resistant fibromyalgia. Read More »

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Disc Degeneration: What Is It?

Christina Lasich, MD | Posted: Feb 09, 2011

Spinal disc degeneration is not a disease. In other words, disc degeneration is not an abnormality in the normal human body. Disc degeneration is the natural aging process that causes normal changes in the spinal discs. Read More »

A Healthcentral slideshow

Slideshow: Backpacks Weight Your Kids Down?

| Posted: Dec 31, 1969

Overworking the back can strain muscles, which increases the risk for injury and poor posture in young growing bodies. Follow these backpack safety tips in back to school season! Read More »

Question of the Week

| Posted:  Dec 31, 1969

What do you do if the pain doctor fires you, you go to the ER and they also refuse to treat you?

Poll of the Week

Are you planning to do something to help raise awareness about chronic pain this month?

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