Nominate Someone You Know for the New "Making A Difference" Award
Do you know someone who has achieved outstanding accomplishments despite living with pain? Someone who has contributed to improving the lives of people with pain through disease awareness, community service or care giving? Now is your chance to nominate deserving individuals for the first annual Endo Pharmaceuticals "Making A Difference" Award.
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Coping with Pain—Vocational Rehabilitation
There isn't an area or aspect of life that chronic pain doesn't touch and it can be especially difficult on one's ability to sustain employment and provide for themselves and their families. Physical restrictions may prevent you from doing the kind of work that you were trained to do.
Read more about developing a vocational retraining program so that you may feel more hopeful and more productive.
Healing Steps to Wellness—Stress
In this month's column, Dr. Michael Loes examines how stress affects health and pain and what you can do to reduce stress in your life.
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Transcending Your Pain—Choosing Your Doctor
Dr. Stieg examines how doctors may lose sight of "caring" for patients and what patients can do to ensure they find a physician who does care. NPF Editor-in-Chief Dr. Rollin Gallagher offers his comments on what you can do to help your doctor help you.
Read more about the importance of fostering a caring relationship with your physician.
Pain-related News and Research
There's a lot of new research related to potential new medications, complementary/alternative therapies and more this month.
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2004 Triumph Dinner
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What's New Index
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