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Learn how family caregivers can recognize and assess pain, document pain and responses to treatment, and communicate with health care providers about the pain of those they are caring for.
Find out how spinal cord stimulation (SCS) or dorsal root ganglion (DRG) therapy can help people with chronic pain live fuller lives – and see firsthand what life is like with an implanted neurostimulator. These are actual patient stories. The stories are the experience of these individuals only.
Learn what pain is and how it differs and affects individuals, including different sources and types of pain, highlighting that pain is an alarm with implications for mental health, quality of life, function, and relationship quality.
This is an online support group open to anyone with chronic pain. The group meets every weekday, Monday-Friday, between 10-11am ET. The group also meets on most Saturdays and Sundays. It will be facilitated by a U.S. Pain-trained support group leader. To learn more and register, click here.
The pain could also be caused by excessive earwax, which can then cause muffled hearing, irritation, and pain. Antibiotics are only necessary for clearing infection, so this article covers what you need to know to treat earaches at home and how to reduce the pain of an earache.
U.S. adults increasingly report using cannabis to manage chronic pain and rural areas have inadequate comprehensive pain management. Using mixed methods, we aimed to understand how and why some rural adults use cannabis for pain, including within the context of co-use with opioids. Participants (N=14; Oklahoma) were rural-dwelling adults who used tobacco and ≥ 1 other substance, including ...
Ease Back Pain By Stretching - AARP. Denise Austin offers three simple exercises to help relieve discomfort.
