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Her personal interest led her to investigate, explain and expound on the phenomenon of myofascial pain syndrome, secondary to trigger points, first written about in the 1920s by Dr Dudley J. Morton. [5] She drew attention to the role of "Morton's Toe" and its responsibility for causing physical pain throughout the body.
Kerns served as the inaugural national program director for pain management, VA Central Office from 2005 to 2013 and as founding director of Pain Research, Informatics, Multi-morbidities, and Education (PRIME) Center, VA Connecticut Healthcare System from 2008 to 2016. [1] He retired from federal government employment in January 2016. [2]
Tension myositis syndrome (TMS), also known as tension myoneural syndrome or mindbody syndrome, is a name given by John E. Sarno to what he claimed was a condition of psychogenic musculoskeletal and nerve symptoms, most notably back pain.
Pain psychology is the study of psychological and behavioral processes in chronic pain. Pain psychology involves the implementation of treatments for chronic pain. Pain psychology can also be regarded as a branch of medical psychology, as many conditions associated with chronic pain have significant medical outcomes.
P.A.I.N. joined with activists and medical professionals for a July 2018 protest at Harvard's Arthur M. Sackler Museum in Cambridge (Massachusetts) to highlight the Sackler Family's position as a funder of art institutions, and to call on the Sackler Family to instead use their money to fund opioid addiction treatment programs.
Dr. Jeremy Engel, a family practitioner with St. Elizabeth who has become an outspoken advocate for a medical response to the heroin epidemic, said there is a good reason for the slow pace. His months-long effort to recruit doctors for the proposed clinic has been met with reluctance from his fellow physicians.
Tennessee IT specialist Bradley Dawson gets life in prison for the murder of pharmacist wife Christe Chen on their honeymoon at an exclusive private island resort in Fiji.
The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) defines chronic pain as a general pain without biological value that sometimes continues even after the healing of the affected area; [8] [9] a type of pain that cannot be classified as acute pain [b] and lasts longer than expected to heal, or typically, pain that has been experienced on most days or daily for the past six months, is ...