September 2013, A Look Back at Pain Advocacy: Blogtalk by Celeste Cooper

“The task ahead of us is never so great as the power behind us.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Blogs directed at pain advocacy.

September is Pain Awareness Month -- Part III

• When Pain and Disability are Life Limiting – The Seven Rules
• Supporting the Center for Practical Bioethics Initiative andPatient Powered Research Network Pain Action Alliance to Implement a NationalStrategy in Kansas City (PAINS-KC)
• The legacy of Thomas Hennessy Jr –Tribute to an Advocate 
• September is Pain Awareness Month – See what this advocateis doing – Part II 
• September is Pain Awareness Month – See what this advocateis doing – Part I
• Social Security Disability: Mastering the Red Tape When Youhave Invisible Illness
• Bias and the Band. Concerns and comments, “Are DoctorsPaying Attention to Women in Pain?” from the National Pain Report
• Relieving Pain in Kansas City
• June is migraine awareness month. About migraine from mywebsite 
• Standing on the shoulders of giants - Thank you for yoursupport
• Looking back and planning forward: Invisible pain andillness
• May awareness for all neuro-endocrine-immune (NEI),rheumatic and autoimmune disorders.
• Article for National Pain Report Could Fibromyalgia BeLabeled as a Psychiatric Illness?
• New Canadian Guidelines for Treating Fibromyalgia
• Fibromyalgianess is ALL in Our Head? My Correspondence withDr Frederick Wolfe
• Walk a mile in my shoes: The FDA and opioid labeling andrestrictions, where does the problem really reside?
• Women, Men, Autoimmune, Neurological disease, andFibromyalgia: Meeting Gender Bias Head On

 Check our other blogs to the right.  Move forward we shall.

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All answers and blogs are based on the author's opinions and writing and are not meant to replace medical advice.  

Celeste Cooper is a retired RN, educator, fibromyalgia patient, and lead author of the Broken Body Wounded Spirit: Balancing the See Saw of Chronic Pain devotional series (coauthor, Jeff Miller PhD), and Integrative Therapies for Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Myofascial Pain: The Mind-Body Connection (coauthor, Jeff Miller PhD) She is a fibromyalgia expert for Dr. Oz, et al., at Sharecare.com, here, and she advocates for all chronic pain patients as a participant in the Pain Action Alliance to Implement a National Strategy, here. You can read more educational information and about her books on her website, http://TheseThree.com