Article: Unless you live with it, you cannot understand how chronic pain strips away your normal life; It is estimated that one in five people in Wales live with chronic pain and yet NHS pain management services are scattered and fragmented. As Wales' first pain strategy is launched this week, Health Editor Madeleine Brindley met a mother and daughter desperate for more support.(Features)

Article: Feeling their pain can help your sell more.(Opinion)(sales techniques)
B to B;  April 14, 2003 ;     407 words ......executives don't know the specific pain points keeping their customers...t received any training to help them cope. Both groups blame...at uncovering a customer's pain and using that pain to break...were fired.'' 4. Easing the pain and moving forward. We'd then...to move forward with us?'' ...

Article: CHILDREN NEED HELP HANDLING PAIN.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  February 18, 1997 ;     405 words ......Post-Intelligencer Being a kid can be a real pain. The most common childhood miseries -- apart...growing pains.'' Leora Kuttner, a pediatric pain specialist and author of ``A Child in Pain,'' offers tips for harried parents: Keep your...

Article: SCIENCE: AN END TO SUFFERING For many chronically ill people, suffering becomes a way of life - and death. Yet techniques to rescue them from pain are available. Roger Dobson asks whether the medical profession is failing those who most need their help
The Independent - London;  September 20, 1998 ;     700+ words ......ill patients, using the opiate to help keep his unbearable pain under some kind of control. But for too many suffering people, pain is not so well managed. Individuals...years with chronic, debilitating pain that could and should have been...

Article: Exercise may help raise individual's threshold of pain
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  October 14, 1996 ;     337 words ......important role in helping people deal with pain, according to a Stanford University researcher who recently made a presentation on pain management at an American Medical Association...such as running, biking and swimming can help raise an individual's threshold of pain, said James Fries, a ...

Article: 50 million Americans in chronic pain: Medical community needs help in helping us deal with pain.
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  January 12, 1999 ;     700+ words ......also means that we are living with more pain. The fear and agony of pain help fuel the right-to-die movement and Jack...Physicians and nurses must learn that pain is a medical emergency, similar to bleeding...number of people suffering from severe pain is alarming. Right now, 50 million ...

Article: Physical Therapists Can Help Relieve Pain.
PR Newswire;  December 27, 2006 ;     624 words ......R Scott Ward, PT, PhD. Pain medication may help you get through periods of severe pain, but it won't always help you eliminate the underlying...therapist is to reduce pain, improve the ability to...daily activities, and help the patient return to...

Article: Hoping to ease dying kids' pain; Barb and Doug McIntosh watched their daughter suffer terribly in cancer's final stages. They hope her story can help others.(NEWS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  February 6, 2000 ;     700+ words ......insurers and ethicists debate the issues of pain control vs. treatment for children about...for the anesthetic to take effect. The pain was horrendous, Barb McIntosh said. We...had to endure it. We had no choice. The pain of repeated needle pokes is bad enough...

Article: Guidelines might help elderly understand pain; Pamphlets: Experts say 'quality of life' doesn't necessarily have to be affected
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  May 10, 2002 ;     381 words ......-to- read pamphlets to help older Americans explain their pain to doctors and know...seek a referral to a pain specialist if the regular doctor doesn't help enough, she advised...society created a "daily pain diary" to help patients do just that...

Article: Diagnostic and management strategies for pregnant women with back pain: once a serious cause of the pregnant patient's back pain is ruled out, conservative measures may help to relieve the discomfort.
JAAPA-Journal of the American Academy of Physicians Assistantss;  December 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...As many as 90% of women report back pain during pregnancy, and at least one third have severe or disabling pain that interferes with dally activities. (1-6) The incidence of pregnancy-related back pain increases with age (5) and parity, but younger...

Article: It's time to end the pain and suffering; A common-sense approach and medical care can help reduce or prevent chronic pain.(Life)
The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario);  December 19, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Worried that they damaged something, he says, or that the pain will worsen, they become overly vigilant about body symptoms. And they refuse to do any activity which may cause pain - for fear of further damaging their body. They sit on the...behaviour can affect whether or not they become disabled with ...

Article: Controlling chronic pain Programs at Kansas Rehabilitation Hospital, St. Francis help patients learn to manage debilitating pain
The Topeka Capital-Journal;  July 31, 2000 ;     700+ words ......rehabilitation hospital taught me that pain wasn't going to control me --- I was going...SODDERS The Capital-Journal For a long time, pain was at the center of Darlean Griffin- Jensen...Life was wonderful; she felt safe. The pain started in 1997 as an achy feeling, like...

Article: Eat less pasta;the pelvic pain will vanish; Two million women live with the agony of endometriosis. Some experts say a simple change of diet could help.
The Daily Mail (London, England);  April 17, 2007 ;     700+ words ......record how their symptoms changed. As well as halving their pain rating an average of 4 to 1.9, just over 50 per cent of those...check labels all the time. But after about nine months the pain had gone. It was unbelievable how well it worked.' 'There was no doubt the wheat was having an effect on my ...

Article: Video: New Online Resource to Help Bridge Communication Gap Between Healthcare Professionals and Pain Patients
U.S. Newswire;  November 18, 2008 ;     700+ words ......unite in an effort to help improve pain management BALTIMORE...information and tools to help enhance the dialogue between those affected by pain and healthcare professionals...communicate better in order to help improve pain management." Click hereto...

Article: Do antidepressants help patients with back pain?
The Boston Globe;  April 28, 2008 ;     330 words ......Cambridge. "Antidepressants don't help much with back pain that is caused by muscle spasms...nerve," he said. The drugs may help with pain caused by nerve injury. Carr...antidepressants are more likely to help with back pain than others. The ones that help...