Tuesday, 23 December 2014

Updates and excuses PART III: The Name Game...

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The name of Pain may be CRPS, but it doesn't automatically mean that any and all other unexplained pain would always be CRPS too. Logica...
Sunday, 12 October 2014

CRPS – The Dutch Way: “Evidence-Based Guidelines CRPS type I” and possibly halting the early stages of CRPS in its tracks

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The interesting part of living in a foreign country is seeing that there are different approaches to treating CRPS. Not that one country...
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Tuesday, 7 October 2014

"Mysterious CRPS condition hits home for INSIDE EDITION Reporter" (video link):

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I saw this video on the facebook page of Chronic Pain Australia. It's a short piece showing the experience of two young people living wi...
Friday, 3 October 2014

Updates and excuses PART II: THE BLAME GAME

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Blame, faith and the peculiar perils of positive thinking... In general, I try not to blame others or the world for things that go wr...
Saturday, 27 September 2014

Updates and excuses PART I: THE SHAME GAME

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And yes... the shame of making this post some 2 1/2 years after the last, my biggest shame of all!!! It's strange how fast time passe...
Tuesday, 27 March 2012

The Pain in the brain really drives you insane... Living your life in a game of chess...

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It's certainly an interesting time in the treatment of pain.  Body in Mind has a link to an article in The Australian (a national broa...
Friday, 16 March 2012

Snapshots of the sublime in fire and ice...

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It is the simple things that bring the most pleasure. Sometimes you wake up one day feeling much lighter than you did yesterday. As you drin...
Thursday, 15 March 2012

Finding the energy and being kind to yourself in an indifferent world...

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I'm sorry I have been absent. It happens sometimes when you have barely enough energy to get yourself dressed some days, or even eat. It...
Sunday, 5 February 2012

Don't dis my abilities and how it feels to be discriminated against...

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On 3rd November every year is the International Day of People with a Disability (IDPWD). New South Wales celebrates it with the campaign  ...
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Friday, 13 January 2012

Body in Mind - Luke Parkitny

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It is well established that pain is in the brain. But what happens in the early stages of CRPS to turn a minor injury to something so devas...
Friday, 6 January 2012

Looking out for a new outlook - new year, the dawn of change...

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New year is one of my favourite days of the year. It's the day of resolutions, of dreaming of what the future will bring. Of hoping tha...
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Saturday, 17 December 2011

Dancing away despair and putting pain in its place...

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With the past few months of flare-ups in my pain and the intense allodynia (pain from harmless things touching my skin, such as clothing or ...
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Thursday, 15 December 2011

Lorimer Moseley on TEDxAdelade

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Pain is in the brain!!! This bloke is great - one of the leading minds in the understanding of pain!

My story for National Pain Week in Australia and celebrating milestones...

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Some months ago, I wrote my story for National Pain Week in Australia. It was something that really opened my mind up to writing this blog. ...

Why blog, why? Maps, Aliens and brains...

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I love this age!! I'm very new to blogging, but I always loved reading other people's. I love that it is possible, in today's wo...
Wednesday, 14 December 2011

A problem shared is a problem halved...

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A new adventure, a new way of managing things. In the past, I have kept this all inside. I lived this private hell while on the outside tr...