The iPain Summit 2019 took place from November 14th-16th, 2019. Patient Worthy had the privilege to attend this event and cover it live on social media. This summit was focused…
According to a story from Eye for Film, Mindy Bledsoe with both direct and star in an upcoming film called The In-Between. This movie will be centered on two friends, Mads and…
The regenerative medicine market is witnessing a high growth rate across the world. The increasing incidence of bone injuries and joint fractures are boosting this market. According to Transparency Market…
According to a story from National Pain Report, Jill Konowich was well on her way to becoming a medical doctor. She was studying at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.…
It was a spring day in 2001. My wife Gina was asked if she wanted to go for a quick ride on our friends new motorcycle. It would change our…
According to a story from Kaiser Health News, many patients that are dealing with chronic pain feel stuck in the debate over opioids in the US. As the ongoing crisis…
According to a story from the Sydney Morning Herald, Hayley Wyatt appeared to be calling for her mother in her final moments, but there was nothing anyone in her family…
According to a story from the Royal College of Physicians, the organization has chosen to release new guidelines regarding the treatment of patients with complex regional pain syndrome, a potentially…
The first patients have been enrolled in two clinical trials of the experimental drug neridronate. The trials are part of the company’s Phase 3 program to evaluate the effects of…
According to a story from biotechprism.com, ten-year-old boy Jed Kagan of South Africa was crippled by debilitating pain when he first appeared at the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital in…
Whenever it comes to a controversial issue, I always ask myself: Who benefits? In most cases, it’s not all that hard to figure it out. But sometimes, it seems like…
I love coming home. Don’t get me wrong, I get a great deal of satisfaction from working a solid day, but I really appreciate when I take the first steps…
A little pain usually is a good thing. It's our alarm system. It's our body's way of saying, "Hey, that's hot... Get away before it hurts you!" However, when the…
Happy Friday Patient Worthians! This week we have two awesome contributions. One addresses grieving as a parent of a child with rare disease. Another addresses living with CRPS and other…
I felt the cold sweat racing down my back. I felt like I was drowning, but there was no water around. By this point in my life, I had experienced…
No matter how mentally flexible or strong you are, we all have a breaking point. Unfortunately, many of us tend to push ourselves as far as possible until we reach…
Sudden. Intense. Pain. It feels like a burning sensation. Your toes, or your fingers, or your knees feel engulfed in flames. There is pressure, and there is pain. Where did…
Sometimes… just sometimes, dads get a bad rap. Think about all the mommy blogs out there to empower, to share, and even at times, to vent about the life and…
La Ignorancia: Falta de conocimiento, aprendizaje, o información. Descuidado: No tener preocupación o cuidado, no prestar atención. Al tratar de encontrar las palabras perfectas para describir el reciente accidente de…
Después de ser diagnosticado con una enfermedad rara, a menudo hay un sinfín de preguntas que siguen: ¿Qué voy a hacer? ¿Qué es esta enfermedad? ¿Es curable? Y la pregunta…
¿Qué pasa si vives con dolor crónico todos los días - y no sólo pequeños dolores, pero dolor de nivel 8 en una escala de 1 a 10? Kirah DeCarlo…
Este es el escenario: una mujer y un hombre entran a la sala de emergencia con los mismos síntomas. Ambos tienen un terrible dolor en la región abdominal. El hombre…
Happy Friday Patient Worthians! Do you wish you can take a day off from your rare disease? What about when it seems like it's getting to be too much and…
There’s a CRPS clinical trial being listed on Craigslist. Not kidding. You can check it out here. Now, am I the only one who finds that really odd? When I…
If you suffer from complex regional pain syndrome, or CRPS, you know the value of effective pain management--because without it, life kind of grinds to a halt. Unfortunately, many of…
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