ispine.org forum is a must for back pain sufferers
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I recently joined a  back forum called iSpine .  They have articles, a lending library, and, most impressively, a forum for spine patients.  This online community is full of people with serious experience in spine surgeries, pain, specialists, overseas medical travel, medications, old and new techniques, doctors with excellent reputations, and anything else related to back injury and back pain.  Few people can understand living with severe chronic pain , which can be very isolating, so I am... Read Full Story
Sometimes ya just feel lucky
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Happy New Year!  Hopefully 2010 will be a good one for you.   I certainly feel optimistic about it personally.  Whether that’s due to the nice weather we’ve been having, the diligence I’ve had lately in taking my vitamins and exercising, or something else entirely, I’ll take it, none the less. I’m currently researching a few topics that will be posted shortly; caregiver fatigue, new technologies in the treatment of back pain, and chemical causes of nerve pain.  In the meantime, I thought... Read Full Story
Light Therapy
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Here we are, once again.  Winter time.  Snowy beauty this morning in the mountains as I shoveled the driveway and a path around to the back of the house.  Bernard isn’t able to have these glorious outdoor moments right now, stuck in bed as he is, and I worry about that.  We all get a lot less sunlight at this time of year, in this part of the world.  The rates of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)  run between 2-3% of the population here in Canada, with a milder form of the problem... Read Full Story
The McGill Neuro-Patient Resource Centre and USC
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The McGill Neuro-Patient Resouce Centre has a number of relevant links for those with or interested in back pain, back surgery and related issues.  Most of the good information they give is actually from The University of Southern California Neurological Surgery  site.  But there are other bits too, so I’ve linked to them both.  Unfortunately, most of the modern techniques they describe are not available yet in Canada.  If you find a place that does offer them in our country,  then drop us a... Read Full Story

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