Comments on: Mary Pat Aardrup, Former Executive Director of the National Pain Foundation, on the Challenges in Chronic Pain Management http://dancingwithpain.com/mary-pat-aardrup-former-executive-director-of-the-national-pain-foundation-on-the-challenges-in-chronic-pain-management/ Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:03:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Loolwa Khazzoom http://dancingwithpain.com/mary-pat-aardrup-former-executive-director-of-the-national-pain-foundation-on-the-challenges-in-chronic-pain-management/comment-page-1/#comment-11830 Loolwa Khazzoom Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:21:51 +0000 http://dancingwithpain.com/?p=3169#comment-11830 <p>OMG me too me too! I detest that pain scale. Because it's like, it just hurts, ok? Leave me alone! And yeah, this thing about being perceived as a liar! I know that feeling. So validating to hear you say that. The whole system is broken and inapplicable to the experience of pain. We need to move forward with an entirely different foundation and approach.</p> OMG me too me too! I detest that pain scale. Because it’s like, it just hurts, ok? Leave me alone! And yeah, this thing about being perceived as a liar! I know that feeling. So validating to hear you say that. The whole system is broken and inapplicable to the experience of pain. We need to move forward with an entirely different foundation and approach.

]]> By: Heather Freeman http://dancingwithpain.com/mary-pat-aardrup-former-executive-director-of-the-national-pain-foundation-on-the-challenges-in-chronic-pain-management/comment-page-1/#comment-11825 Heather Freeman Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:22:19 +0000 http://dancingwithpain.com/?p=3169#comment-11825 I must agree that the lack of validation is the hardest part. Related to validation is the constant pressure by health care providers to "measure" pain on that damned 1-10 scale. It's so incredibly subjective, and yet I feel this terror that if I am not objectively consistent, I will reveal myself to be a liar somehow. I must agree that the lack of validation is the hardest part.
Related to validation is the constant pressure by health care providers to “measure” pain on that damned 1-10 scale. It’s so incredibly subjective, and yet I feel this terror that if I am not objectively consistent, I will reveal myself to be a liar somehow.

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