Posted on September 19, 2019 by Ed Coghlan September is Pain Awareness Month and the country’s largest patient advocacy organization for the pain community wants to hear what you think about pain. Health Union, LLC is partnering with the U.S. Pain Foundation to conduct the Chronic Pain in America 2019 survey to get a better understanding…
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What Does the Federal Government Need to Hear From the Chronic Pain Community?
Posted on October 10, 2019 by Ed Coghlan The U.S. Pain Foundation is encouraging its pain warriors to comment—They need to know what you think by Friday. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has opened a Request for Information (RFI) to solicit input into the development of an Action Plan on the opioid crisis…
An Epidemic of Under Treated Chronic Pain
Posted on September 16, 2019 by Ginevra Liptan, MD I was relieved to read the headline “A Mea Culpa on CDC Opioid Guideline” in a recent edition of Pain Medicine News. Mea Culpa means a formal acknowledgement of fault or error, and gives me hope that the pendulum on opioids may be moving closer back…
MORNING INSPIRATION: Time to Roll Up Our Sleeves
Happy Holidays Everyone, This post was originally provided on 11/18/16, 8:49am and I am running behind and am just getting to sharing it with all of you who follow my blog site, iCareTalk.net/PickYourPain.org. The post was written by a well written and outspoken, Shaina Smith, who can be reached at, shaina@uspainfoundation.org. Time to Roll Up Our…
National Pain Post on St. Jude and Nervo pain stimulators.
The following article was posted on the National Pain Report earlier today (10/5/16) on Facebook http://nationalpainreport.com/fda-approves-st-judes-burstdr-scs-therapy-for-chronic-pain-8831634.html,“with the information which looks like it was obtained from BusinessWire.com at http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161004005719/en/St.-Jude-Medical-Announces-FDA-Approval-BurstDR site. More information on the Nevro HF10 unit is available on their website, http://www.nevro.com/English/Patients/Patient-Overview/default.aspx. I have a Medtronic Intrathecal Pain Management Pump (IPMP) which unlike the stimulation provided by the…
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