by Peggy Baker | Oct 31, 2017 | Clinical, News
I had an opportunity to sit down with Geralyn Datz, PhD, past president of SPS, after her session on “Biopsychosocial Approaches to Treating Chronic Pain and Headache” at our recent meeting in New Orleans. One of the topics you addressed in your talk was how there has...
by Peggy Baker | Oct 31, 2017 | News
We had a spectacular meeting in September at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in New Orleans. This year we collaborated with the Southern Headache Society and included breakout sessions for both chronic pain and headache providers. The opening session on Friday afternoon...
by Peggy Baker | Aug 3, 2017 | News, President's Notes
Hyperbole Over Nuance by Mordecai Potash, M.D. One of the ways I like to unwind is to watch HBO on my cellphone or tablet. Whether it’s Real Time, Last Week Tonight, Westworld, or Game of Thrones, I am captivated by HBO’s shows! One show, VICE – and its online...
by Peggy Baker | Aug 3, 2017 | Clinical, News
by Geralyn Datz, PhD The Opioid Epidemic has forced providers and insurers to re-evaluate the way chronic pain is treated both short and long term. As a result, there has been a renewed interest in non-medical based treatments that restore pain patients, particularly...
by Peggy Baker | Aug 3, 2017 | Clinical, News
by Michele Erich, MM, CCLS, MT-BC and Ann Quinlan-Colwell, PhD, RN-BC, AHNBC, DAAPM News reports are replete with stories about the problems of opioid use disorder (OUD) and over dose deaths [1,2]. A reasonable approach to addressing this health care crisis is...
by Peggy Baker | May 19, 2017 | News
“I would not recommend that you go into pain medicine… find something else rewarding to do.” The honesty of that statement just exploded from my mouth – like it has been welling up to be spoken (or shouted) for many months. I am at my clinic at Tulane University...
