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Coping with Chronic Pain: Sex

Coping with Chronic Pain: What are the Barriers to Sex?

Paul Karoly, Aaron Taylor, and I conducted a study of over 2,000 people with different forms of chronic pain from across the United States and found that 63% reported that pain interfered with sexual functioning. Other researchers have found similar results; …

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Coping with Pain - Tai Chi

Chronic Pain Management and Tai Chi

If you are living with chronic pain, you may have used many different strategies for pain management. Have you tried Tai Chi? It originated in Chinese martial arts

Pace Yourself So You Can Do More

Living with Pain: Start Pacing Yourself!

Last week, I talked about how important it is to stay active, even though you have chronic pain. The less you do, the weaker you will become. When

Living with Severe Pain Pace Yourself

Living with Pain: What is Your Baseline?

Chronic pain tends to slow people down. You may find that you are less active, socialize less, move slower, and simply do less. Here are some examples of

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Living with Pain: A New Year – A Slightly New You

Let's face it, New Year's resolutions aren't always successful.  It is easy to decide to change; it is much more difficult to actually create lasting change. Working

Living With Pain - Goals Make a Difference

Living with Pain: Goals Make a Difference

Chronic pain can make it tough to get through the day, much less to "pursue goals". But, part of the richness of life comes from looking to the

Chronic Pain Management and Activity Level

Chronic Pain Management and Activity Level: The Power of 10%

If your back hurts, or you have tension headaches, facial pain, knee pain, migraine headaches, arthritis, or one of the many other chronic pain

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