Fall 2010

Welcome to PainPathways, a quarterly magazine for acute, chronic and cancer pain management. PainPathways is the ultimate resource for patients, caregivers and physicians seeking current research and therapies and is available in doctors’ offices, Barnes & Noble and B. Dalton bookstores nationwide. PainPathways may also be purchased online.

September is National Pain Awareness Month! Our fall issue features CNN’s Hero Mackenzie Bearup and her experience with pediatric pain. In this piece, 16-year-old Bearup shares how her passion for reading helps her ease the pain from complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), and how she uses it to help others.

Other articles in this issue include:

• how new FDA Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) for medication affects pain patients and physicians
• an in-depth look at opioid side effects
• how to improve the most common side effect of pain medications
• understanding more about low back pain

Our physician spotlight focuses on Rami Burstein, PhD, a professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and professor and vice chairman of research affairs in the department of anesthesia and critical care at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. In this piece, Dr. Burstein discusses how migraines work and explores their triggers and symptoms.

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