Having chronic pain is a lot like having a bleeding heart. It's not enough to kill you, but it sure puts the brakes on lots of activities you used to do or would like to do. People with FMS or CFS know.
A new physician, Dr. Bushnell, is joining the NIH under the NCCAM (for alternativ medicine) to study about the mechanisms, brain changes, and what forms of both alternative medicine/treatments and medications can be used to help people with chronic pain conditions. It's amazing the statistics in the article linked below concerning cost and lost work days due to victims of chronic pain disorders.
Please read: http://www.nih.gov/news/health/jul2012/nccam-12.htm
Make any comments you wish on this blog and share the above page with others who have chronic pain.
Yours,
Dr. Linda B. Greer
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