The Pain Whisperer
The term, "horse whisperer" or "dog whisperer" is used to refer to a person who is especially attuned to these animals and can...
Managing Headache: Too Many tests not enough counseling
Recently MEDSCAPE published an article entitled: Managing Headache: Too Many Tests, Not Enough Counseling? Specifically, the authors...
Patients with "Fibromyalgia" have higher incidence of Irritable bowel Syndrome
Taiwanese researchers reviewed a nationwide database and found that indivudals diagnosed with fibromyalgia-- muscle pain, myofascial...
Spinal Stenosis, Imaging, Pain
A colleague shared an interesting article by Kuittinen, et al out of Finland. The authors looked at visually measured spinal stenosis...
Guest Blog:Visualization Changes Neural Pathways, Repeated Failure leads to Failure
I received an interesting email from an independent research colleague, Arthur Klurstein, that relates to the work that I do. ...
Case of the Month
(Note: Stock photo above, not a patient, of course) This month's most amazing story was a woman who came in recently with thirty-five...
Therapy vs. Medication for Depression, what do we learn from brain imaging?
Richard Friedman MD reviewed in the New York Times an article by Helen Mayberg, MD from JAMA Psychiatry . Dr. Mayberg started with the...
Personal TMS affirmation or "mantra"
I discuss in Think Away Your Pain how self-talk and positive affirmations or blocking messages are an important part of breaking old pain...
Pain and Fear
Okay, clearly a person in pain can't do the above. Or can they? Each person assesses the risk of an activity or movement in relation to...
TMS/Chronic Pain as an Attention SURPLUS Disorder
TMS, an Attention Surplus Disorder? ADD or attention deficit disorder is a medical term for individuals who have an inability to focus...
