HeyJaredArthritic Chick on Chronic Pain
About chronic secondary pain, and how to treat it. The science, the politics and the lived experience.
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Chronic Pain Patients Are Not Permission Slips - Joletta Belton’s work (opens the original)
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Patient involvement is not a nice ethical extra added after the ‘real science’ is finished. It is one of the conditions required for the science itself to be trustworthy.That is the truth at the heart of a paper co-authored by patient advocate Joletta Belton…and it should change how every person living with pain thinks about research.For decades, patients have been treated as the objects of pain research. We are recruited, measured, classified and discussed. Researchers collect our pain scores,
Chronic Pain took my voice (opens the original)
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Singing gave me joy. Writing songs gave me joy. Playing guitar, creating music and singing something I had written…from my heart…gave me joy.It also got me and my band a record deal, so I wasn’t bad at it. If it matters.But the one-in-a-million success story was not me. It wasn’t us. We gave it our best. And our best was very good.Then singing was taken away.Playing guitar was taken away.Rheumatoid arthritis affects my hands. Neuropathy from CIDP affects my hands. The weakness and pain mean I ca
Zarlee Is Not “Just a Dog” (opens the original)
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Zoggie was injured more than two years ago. She has coped extraordinarily well, but now she needs an MRI that will cost somewhere between $5,000 and $6,000. Depending on what it shows, she may then need surgery costing as much as $15,000.There is little point paying for the MRI if I cannot afford the treatment that follows it.So I have been saving.But every time I manage to put a little money aside, something else happens. Something essential breaks. Another expensive problem arrives. The money
When Pain Becomes Profit – why opioids must fail (opens the original)
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But let’s not overlook the less noble explanation: research dollars, commercial opportunity, institution building and careers.There is now an enormous scientific and commercial industry devoted to solving “the opioid crisis.” And that industry depends, at least partly, on maintaining a particular story: opioids are dangerously addictive, fundamentally unsuitable for chronic pain and urgently need to be replaced.The United States National Institutes of Health launched its HEAL Initiative in 2018,
The Rubber Hand Illusion Did Not Generate Pain (opens the original)
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A video of the rubber hand illusion is doing the rounds on LinkedIn.You can see the post and video here.It is certainly an interesting demonstration.A young man sits at a table with his real arm hidden from view. A realistic rubber arm is positioned in front of him, roughly where his own arm might be. An experimenter strokes the hidden real hand and the visible rubber hand at the
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