NIH-funded study suggests brain is hard-wired for chronic pain

Brain’s white matter may determine susceptibility to chronic pain
Scientists used the structure of the brain’s white matter (green lines) to predict whether a subject would recover from low back pain. Red dots represent differences… Read the rest4 Lies We Believe About Life With Illness

Lisa Copen Founder of National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week and Rest Ministries
When it comes to making the daily decisions about our illness it’s easy to rely on instinct. Occasionally, however, our instinctive decisions about dealing with our disease… Read the restcomplex regional pain syndrome CRPS/RSD: sheila’s story as told by her husband

Dave and I had been roommates in Salt Lake when I met Cody back in 2000. He was always quiet and funny, waxing poetic about moldy coffee or snow leopards. Cody and I were both surprised when he and my … Read the rest