by Peggy Baker | Jun 26, 2019 | News
Jennifer L. DelVentura, PhD ABPP Jennifer L. Steiner, PhD ABPP “I just want my life back, I want to feel like me again”. This is a common refrain in our work as pain psychologists. Too often individuals with chronic pain feel as though their lives have fundamentally...
by Peggy Baker | Jun 26, 2019 | News
Jennifer L. DelVentura, Ph.D., ABPP Jennifer L. Steiner, Ph.D., ABPP In a widely-shared article published in the Atlantic in 2015, titled “How Doctors Take Women’s Pain Less Seriously,” author Joe Fassler tells of his wife Rachel’s visit to the ER after she is...
by Peggy Baker | Jun 26, 2019 | News
Lawrence Robbins, M.D. NOTE: Data was collected from Oct. 2018 through May, 2019. Data was collected by Dr. Robbins and Brook Phenicie, NP-C. This was a de-identified retrospective study. IRB was obtained This write-up is preliminary. All patients had the diagnosis...
by Peggy Baker | Jun 10, 2019 | News
Dear SPS Member: The members of the Board of Directors of the Southern Pain Society were saddened to read about the possible need for the American Pain Society to cease operations. We have long appreciated the scientific contributions and clinical guidelines for pain...
by Peggy Baker | Apr 5, 2019 | News
Ann Quinlan-Colwell, PhD, APN While reviewing the agenda for our upcoming annual Southern Pain Society meeting Integrated Pain Care: New Perspectives, after looking at the varied topics being presented and the backgrounds of the speakers, I was reminded of the concept...
by Peggy Baker | Apr 5, 2019 | News
Ann Quinlan-Colwell, PhD, APN In this third of a series of writings about compassion and pain management, this article focuses on self-compassion. The premise is that it is essential for health care providers to have compassion for self as the foundation to...
