Researching Conventional and Complementary Medicine for Natural Pain Relief

By: Loolwa Khazzoom, Founder, Dancing with Pain

July 23rd, 2008 • Leave a Comment

I am researching conventional and complementary medicine for natural pain relief - specifically, methodologies with scientific studies backing up their effectiveness. If there is a particular methodology or tool that has been successful in treating your pain or that of someone you know; if you are familiar with reputable studies that back up particular natural pain relief techniques; or if there is a specific individual you think I ...
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Ass-Kicking Exercise Support Group

By: Loolwa Khazzoom, Founder, Dancing with Pain

April 16th, 2008 • Leave a Comment

For me, lying horizontal for hours and hours throughout the night is just about the worst thing that my body can do. So I generally start off my day stiff, hurting, crabby, and therefore, anxious. Invariably, however, when I open up my chronic pain toolbox and pull out what it takes to get me going in the morning (nutritious food, caffeine blast, hot shower), my body loosens up, my pain levels drop, and my bubbly spirit returns. The ...
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Patient Empowerment: The Five-Step Plan

By: Loolwa Khazzoom, Founder, Dancing with Pain

March 27th, 2008 • Leave a Comment

In the name of patient empowerment, many natural health care practitioners claim that we create our own reality. The intention, of course, is to encourage us to take responsibility for our lives, rather than fall victim to circumstance. Often, however, this approach can come off as blaming rather than encouraging -- the experience of numerous chronic pain patients, who feel either directly or implicitly accused of creating our suffering. ...
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Overcome Fear of Pain

By: Loolwa Khazzoom, Founder, Dancing with Pain

March 22nd, 2008 • Leave a Comment

My day today started off totally and completely shitty -- beginning at 6:00 a.m., when I awoke from a sense of profound distress:Various body parts were hurting, which reminded me of the medical negligence that caused injury to those body parts, which reminded me of the lack of accountability medical professionals took for injuring those body parts, which reminded me of the resulting psychological distress and financial duress I've been suffering in the process of ...
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Attitude Shift

By: Loolwa Khazzoom, Founder, Dancing with Pain

February 27th, 2008 • 1 Comment

A cyber- friend of mine just sent me this little doodad, which is the embodiment of the Dancing with Pain® attitude shift. I don't know who wrote it, but whoever you are, you rock.

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There once was a woman who woke up one morning, looked in the mirror, and noticed she had only three hairs on her head. "Well," she said, "I think I'll braid my hair today." So she did, and she had a wonderful ...
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