Back Pain Education Day 2015: Your Brain And Pain

Posted on September 27, 2015 by PainMgr

Dr. Beth Darnall is a Pain Psychologist at the Stanford University Pain Management Center, and she was one of the presenters on the Back Pain Education Day. She discussed the brain and pain connection. Out of all the topics covered, I thought her discussion was most interesting. To be honest, I never heard of the term “Pain Psychologist”. But to my surprise, it is a psychological specialty. To learn more about it, you can click on this link, What Is a Pain Psychologist. Dr. Darnall’s presentation topic was titled Pain Psychology: Opening The Medicine Box In The Mind.
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Back Pain Education Day 2015: Introduction

Posted on September 20, 2015 by PainMgr

Last week Stanford University had an event by the Division of Pain Medicine, focusing on back pain. It was pretty much an all day affair, and luckily, the event was recorded on video and posted on their website. You can view the event as well as review the agenda items listed on my previous blog post. Sean Mackey, MD, PhD, who is the chief of the Division, mentioned that low back pain accounts for about 30% of the adult population (18 years and older) in the U.S. who report on the incidence of pain. And to put that in perspective, pain affects about 100 million people in the U.S., and low back pain accounts for the largest percentage of those who experience pain. So low back pain is a big deal in the U.S., perhaps the world, and there’s no question why a higher institute of learning has a center dedicated to pain medicine.
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Back Pain Seminar – Update

Posted on September 12, 2015 by PainMgr

Back Pain Seminar UpdateThe link to the live-stream session for the back pain seminar is: Stanford Back Pain Education Day

And here’s the schedule of events for the Stanford Back Pain Education Day (10am-4pm PST):
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Back Pain Seminar

Posted on September 6, 2015 by PainMgr

I wanted to share a link with you today about an up-coming seminar focused solely on back pain. Unfortunately, the registration to the event is closed since it has reached full capacity. I believe this event was advertised at the end of July 2015, and I’m sorry I missed reporting on it earlier. The event scheduled on 9-13-2015 is still a week away, and it’s already closed! That just tells you how much interest we have in treating back pain, and confirms the fact that back pain is certainly the “number one pain condition in the world”. When you go to the Stanford University Back Pain Education Day web site, it does say that you can view the live-stream of the event from that web page on the date and time listed. So there’s hope for us to still view this event, even if we couldn’t register for it.

In the mean time, check out the article from the site National Pain Report which discusses this up-coming event in more detail.
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5 Signs You Might Suffer From Inflammation

Posted on August 30, 2015 by PainMgr

On the recent blog post on this site, we touched upon inflammation, which ironically is our body’s response to protect us from pain and start the healing process. But if inflammation goes out of control, then it has a knack of blocking the healing process, making pain relief even harder to achieve. So what are the signs you may have inflammation?
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Eating Healthy Can Help Your Back Pain

Posted on August 16, 2015 by PainMgr

One of the things we do is use ice to relieve pain, such as back pain. Ice helps minimize inflammation, which in turn, helps provide pain relief. Ice is a cheap and safe way to get relief from back pain. In simple terms, when you reduce inflammation, there’s a good chance you’ll experience relief!

A good number of people who experience back pain have found that supplementing their deficiency of vitamin D or potassium with foods rich in such items, also helped relieve their pain. Eating healthy could be another option to the traditional use of relying on those painkiller drugs. Check out this article and video from the site Fox6Now.com that discusses a healthy option over painkiller drugs. Specifically, foods that help provide pain relief.
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Very Informative Back Pain Infographic

Posted on August 2, 2015 by PainMgr

Back pain can put a definite damper on your life and a huge dent in your wallet! I found this great infographic from the site visual.ly about back pain. It provides interesting statistics and helpful tips on back pain prevention. It’s good to hear that “most causes of back pain are avoidable”. I hope you like it.
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Stem Cells, TGF-ß1 And Back Pain Relief – What’s The Connection?

Posted on July 19, 2015 by PainMgr

A recent study has found that the use of stem cells could play a significant role in providing back pain relief. Injections of stem cells into the spine resulted in pain relief lasting over a month. Stem cells from bone marrow were used in the study. These types of stem cells are known as bone marrow stromal cells or BMSCs for short. Granted, the study involved mice, but according to the article from the site Science 2.0, there are similar studies involving human subjects showing promise of cell-based treatments for pain relief. I guess you can say that a stem cell, in its most simplistic terms, are like master blue-print cells that can be cloned into other types of cells in the body. For further info on stem cells, you can visit WikiPedia. Keep on reading to find out the connection between stem cells, TGF-ß1 and back pain relief.
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Biofeedback And Back Pain Relief

Posted on July 12, 2015 by PainMgr

Can that mind-over-matter thing really provide back pain relief? Well, it appears well-known medical establishments like the Mayo Clinic think so. That is, they have listed biofeedback as a viable technique in such cases. In general, this technique involves the use of devices, which are attached to your body via electronic sensors (i.e., with wires and patches). These devices then provide information generated from your body movements. If, for example, at the moment of back pain the device displayed information regarding tension around a certain muscle group, then you would use that info and try to focus on relaxing that area.
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What Does A J-Shaped Spine Have To Do With Back Pain?

Posted on July 5, 2015 by PainMgr

On the previous blog post titled “Fix Your Posture = Back Pain Relief“, it discussed how correct posture served as a good foundation for back support, which in turn, provided back pain relief or prevented you from getting back pain. So, bottom line, maintaining a correct posture not only looks good, but it’s good news for your back, too. That said, you should try to keep your head, neck and upper body aligned when you sit, stand or walk. Doing so will help keep your spine from becoming misaligned, and thus, prevent back pain. But, that’s easier said than done, right?
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