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The Intractible Pain Patient's Handbook for Survival
Written by jpcrps   
30 March 2013

I would like to thank Reta (rehuro) for bringing the following resource to our attention. This is a handbook for Intractible Pain Patients, which is extensive and caring.

It was written by a Dr. Forest Tennant, MD DrPH, who worked with pain patient for over 30 years. This handbook is free to share as long as: 

1. All copyright information is retained in he copied document, and 

2. the document is distributed free of charge. 

If recipients are charged for this Handbook, prior permission for distribution must be obtained. 

(c) Copyright 2007 Forest Tennanat, MD, DRPH

VERACT INTRACTABLE PAIN CLINIC

340 South Glendora venue; West Covinal CA 91790-3043 

626-919-7476; E-mail veractinc@msn.com; Website: www.intractablepaindisease.com

 

Published by Pain Treatment Topics

Glenview, IL, USA

http://www.Pain-Topics.org

The mission of Pain Treatment Topics is to serve as a noncommercial resource for healthcare professionals and their patients, providing open access to clinical news, information, research, and education for a better understanding of evidnce-based pain-management practices.



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Ketamine Infusion is a Viable Treatment for CRPS/RSDS
Written by kfwolfe   
27 August 2011

From personal experience I can tell you that Ketamine infusion is a viable treatment for CRPS/RSDS. In this article I will share my own experience with you. I hope those who are suffering from this disease will find hope, and know there is help out there. I wish everyone of you a pain free day!



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Dawn Marie's Wrestlersrescue helps grapplers, sister-in-law
Written by KenaiAndrews   
25 January 2009

Source: SLAM! Sports

http://www.rsds.org/electronic%20alert%20archive/SlamSports_09262008_136.html

The second part of the two-part story on Dawn Marie and her sister-in-law Carrie Deussing's battle with RSD

 

This story was subsequently published on the Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Association (RSDA) website.



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Dawn Marie battles to help ailing sister-in-law
Written by KenaiAndrews   
25 January 2009

 

Source: SLAM! Sports

http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2008/06/21/5947556.html

 Here is a two-part story on professional wrestling personality Dawn Marie and her sister-in-law Carrie Deussing, who struggled with RSD.

 

 

 


       

 



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Pain as a Basic Emotion: The role pain plays with emotions
Written by geekGirl   
14 April 2008

Pain is typically defined by neuroscientists as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage (Sufka & Lynch, 2000).  Pain is highly associated psychologically with distress as an undifferentiated protest against anything that is unpleasant or aversive (Kalat & Shiota, 2007).  The function of pain is generally believed  to be the escape and avoidance to prevent further trauma and/or promote the healing processes (Williams, 2002).  Pain is experienced by everyone, but is expressed in different ways (Llewellyn, n.d.).  These definitions suggest pain is an emotional experience.  I will show how pain fits into all five criteria of a basic emotion, then I will compare pain to the emotions already classified as basic in the way they are related to mental illness in order to provide further evidence that pain is in fact a basic emotion.



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