September is National Pain Awareness Month – Pain Patients' Rights and Responsibilities
September is National Pain Awareness Month and the National Pain Foundation is focusing on increasing awareness of patients' rights and responsibilities and ensuring access to care and patient safety. As a person living with pain, you have rights. Knowing your rights can help you get the care you need. Along with rights, patients have responsibilities that – when understood and fulfilled – help create access to care today and ensure access to care for people who will be living with pain tomorrow.
Read more about your rights, responsibilities and ensuring access to care.
Overcoming Obstacles
People in pain often face a number of obstacles when it comes to getting the medical treatment they need. Pain is an invisible disease, and one that is complicated to explain to both loved ones and health care providers. The more the body is taxed, the less motivated a person in pain may be to navigate the countless tests, specialist referrals and insurance company battles it may take to diagnose, treat and pay for the problem. Read
Roadblocks on the Way to Wellness: Overcome Obstacles and Get the Care You Need to learn more.
Ensuring Safe Medication Use and Preventing Abuse
Part of the struggle in increasing awareness about pain as a serious public health issue is the stigma pain has – some view it as a character flaw or weakness and many view the medications available to treat it as dangerous. The National Pain Foundation is committed to educating the public about safely taking medications and preventing prescription pain medication abuse. Read about these issues in:
Pain and Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction
By Jim Mascolo
People living with pain face obstacles daily – from physical limitations and depression related to their pain condition to financial and insurance issues, accessing care and treatment can be frustrating and difficult. One way to deal with frustrations and pain is to practice mindful meditation. This article explores how mindfulness can be used to help you experience sensations, thoughts and emotions in normal daily life with greater balance and acceptance.
Treating Pain Using Neuromodulation
Neuromodulation is a general word that refers to activity within the human nervous system. Neuromodulation for treating pain refers to the use of highly specialized technology that can alter the function of the human nervous system. Neuromodulation is an exciting and growing field within the specialty of pain medicine.
Learn about spinal cord stimulators, implantable drug pumps, TENS, and more.
Fibromyalgia: Getting the
Information and Care You Deserve
Living with chronic widespread pain can be tough. But the more you
learn, the better you will feel. There is hope for people with this kind of
pain, which may be diagnosed as a condition called fibromyalgia.
The National Pain Foundation has collaborated with the American Chronic Pain
Association and the American Pain Foundation to produce information about
fibromyalgia.
Knowing the facts can put you on the road to better health. The information in
this section will give you a place to start. Visit
Fibromyalgia: Getting the
Information and Care You Deserve today.
We Need Your Help Today!
Just click a link, make a promise to educate yourself and help the NPF and other pain organizations receive a donation from Pfizer
Pfizer, Inc., is providing a charitable donation to support the National Pain Foundation’s educational activities and advocacy efforts, but we need your help! For each visitor who promises on
www.FibroCenter.com to learn about fibromyalgia, Pfizer will donate $1 -- up to a total of $100,000 -- to the National Pain Foundation and three other organizations involved in helping people with fibromyalgia.
It's free, easy and so important to us -- your pledge helps the NPF do more to educate and support people living with pain.
Read the press release for more information or visit
www.FibroCenter.com today!
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