Diagnosed With Chronic Pain. Now what?

Good communication with your health care provider is vital to getting the help you need to live well in spite of your pain.  The ACPA tools in this section can help you talk more productively with you

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Getting insecure and raising concern about treatment is one of the most common and widely accepte...

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Treating chronic pain can be a complicated proposition. There are so many different causes and av...

CRPS stands for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. It may also be referred to as Reflex Sympathetic ...

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Ideas to help with sleep loss. Discusses the vicious cycle of chronic pain and sleep loss and the effects it has on our bodies. Awesome remedies to help!

If you’re living with chronic pain, you may have already tried the usual treatments. Could pain supplements offer an alternative? WebMD takes a look.

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RSD Life -The Beginning: The story of how Jennifer's daughters life was changed forever and now faced with being a parent to a child living with with RSD.

You Are NOT Your Illness, So Who Are You? - Part 2 of accepting an imperfect life and accepting our chronic illness. We will not be defined by our illness.

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Welcome to Overcoming pain.com – a place where you can learn how to feel better, whether your pain is physical, emotional or a combination of both. Recent discoveries in neuroscience have revolutionized our management of pain. Although it often starts in the body, all pain involves the brain. In fact there is an 80% overlap in the areas of the brain involved in physical and emotional pain. The great thing about the brain is that it is changeable – capable of being modified by experience. Increased understanding of the brain has led to the development of new strategies for overcoming pain, aimed at changing the patterns of brain activity which maintain pain. These range from SSRI anti-depressants to meditation to innovative psychological therapies such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. These methods target the deeper areas of the brain where sensory-emotional aspects of pain are stored. Because they are designed to work with how the brain works, they are both more efficient and more effective. Just think about the difference between how walking along a beach at sunset (or listening to music or having coffee with a friend) makes you feel compared with telling yourself to relax. The sensory experience affects you much more than the purely mental one. Inside these pages you will find a collection of information and resources to help you apply this knowledge to your healing ranging from free tip sheets to a comprehensive self-healing program – Change Your Brain Change Your Pain (book and CD).

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In this blog post, we outline our favourite articles to offer support and empowerment & give chronic pain sufferers the boost they need. To read, click here.

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Specialists are exploring nondrug, noninvasive treatments, some of which have proved highly effective.

Six pairs of words that might seem similar, but the differences are important when talking about chronic illness.

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I hope these guidelines are helpful. If you’re in doubt as to whether what’s happening warrants a trip to the doctor, err on the side of caution and make that trip.