chronic pain

Darien Behravan, DO, AQPM, with the Bay Area Pain and Spine Institute was the first speaker at the conference last week and did an excellent job: I thought his information would fall into place better for you after having given the overview by Drs. Teitelbaum and Rand.   read more »

"Doctors train patients to take pills for all their needs.  Doctors are trained to do this.  But in the end, the meds are more problem than the pain."  Dr.  read more »

Anyone interested in the subject of chronic pain should be interested in what we were part of this weekend in Berkeley, CA.  A group of professionals and people with chronic pain or family/friends with it, came together in the most inviting, open room of an art studio and shared our experiences and knowledge for 9 hours.   Two things were most striking for me: that people with chronic pain conditions would attend in such substantial numbers and be able to stay for such an event and that many of the presenters and crew had a history of chronic pain and are sincerely passi  read more »

Mardy Ross, OTR has been invited by the documentary filmmaker doing a series on chronic pain to present at the kickoff conference in July in Berkeley, California.  We contacted Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum about it and he was then asked to present as well (on the latest research about CFIDS/FM).  The link for the conference is below, and features biographies of all presenters and their abstracts.  read more »

It's been really interesting to see what all has come our way recently.  Lumigrate has reached out and made hundreds of new friends (and we're looking forward to that continuing!), some of which are really leaders in the health care community.  The website is being recognized as valuable for progressive health seekers.  We appreciate the people who stopped by and looked around, downloaded or ordered DVDs or took the time to write in the forum areas.  We also are looking forward to continuing to foster collaborative relationships with top quality provider  read more »