Letting Others Down: Living with Lupus
I’m overly conscientious. Some might think this is a good trait, particularly when they happen to be on the receiving end of my hyper-conscientiousness. I…
How Healing Touch Therapy Works
Florence Nightingale believed in it. So do Native Americans and shamans in African culture. And the Chinese began using it as long as 5,000 years…
Automatic Thoughts and Pain
by Dee Emmerson, TCC Writer Kevin hurts all the time since his accident. After learning how thoughts become automatic, he’s noticing that his pain gets worse…
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Urban Farming
The old adage “you are what you eat” could be the unofficial motto for a community initiative currently under way in one North Carolina city….
Letting Others Down: Living with Lupus
I’m overly conscientious. Some might think this is a good trait, particularly when they happen to be on the receiving end of my hyper-conscientiousness. I…
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The Low Back Pain Treatments Your Doctor Isn’t Telling You About
If you’ve been feeling like your doctor visits aren’t doing much to help your low back pain, there’s now some research to back you up….
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Breast Massage for Pain
Reduce breast pain through lymphatic massage. Joyce Sobotta started studying breast self-care more than a decade ago, after losing her sister to breast cancer in…
Island of Depression
Note to readers– I wrote this post in November of 2014. It has been sitting in a file labeled “Blogs Ready to Post” for almost…
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Letting People In
When someone is in pain, their whole family is impacted. I was reminded of this truth recently as visitors approached my booth at the Los Angeles…
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Where Chronic Pain Hurts the Most
As a doctor who sees firsthand the damage that chronic pain creates in people’s lives, I believe improving how we treat pain is the single…