When someone touches a hot stove and burns their fingers, a little pain is normal. In fact, it’s a healthy reaction to a threat in the environment, warning that person to change their behavior immediately. But sometimes the pain lingers long after the danger has passed, becoming chronic. ...
Let me tell you about Sam. Six months after I first went on long term sick leave from my nursing job, I had begun to accept that the chronic pain in my lower back and leg were not going away any time soon. An epidural had caused a CSF leak and the cocktail of drugs that my old...
so we do not understand the lived experience of being an older adult. HA is a previous elite athlete who has experience with chronic musculoskeletal pain and interventions due to injury and AMB has experience of chronic musculoskeletal pain. Both HA and AMB’s parents...
Fig. 2. Chronic pain conditions quantified by the number of genetic loci. Only genes with positive association in a given disorder or group of disorders reported in at least two studies are included, and rare Mendelian disorder variants from linkage studies are not included. Table 1. Genes repo...
support system. As you mentioned, “they know”. Children are sponges regardless of age and the puppy can sense your pain. I’d like to invite you to an RSD Support Group that I have online. We’re all in pain, so it’s goes from active to slower periods, but posts are always ...
Siegel address the difficulties faced by those with illness symptoms that are not easily observable to others, such as chronic pain and chronic fatigue. The authors discuss ways that those who struggle with invisible chronic illness can communicate with others about their symptoms and reframe their ...
Saying things like this shows the complainer that you’re not taking their pain seriously. When you tell a complainer “it’s not that bad”, he will often complain even harder to convince you (and himself) that his problems are very serious indeed. ...
To me, people who are not able to be grateful for basic things have not experienced pain or loss to the extent that makes them aware of how lucky they are when terrible things aren’t happening. And with that, on to day 2! xoB ...
But while on the treatment I felt great. I slept fantastic. All my pain went away. All my tired and wired symptoms went away. But the improvement did not persist. Two weeks ago I went to see a doc that I know fairly well, and told him what happened. After hearing my story, he ga...
Chronic pain remains poorly understood; yet it is associated with the reorganization of the nervous system. Here, we demonstrate that a unitary global measure of functional connectivity, defined as the extent of degree rank order disruption, kD, identifi