Time for a laugh!

The end of another week already!  And for your giggling pleasure, a couple of oldies but goodies.

Now this one shows that some people have waaaaay too much time on their hands…

’nuff said.  Have a good weekend!  I’ll be back posting on Monday.

BIG list of pain-related websites

Pain Treatment Topics is a big site full of wonderful resources.  They’ve just reviewed a whole range of sites on the web and listed those that meet their criteria.  To quote:
Pain Treatment Topics evaluated the Internet sites below as being essentially non-commercial and serving the information and education needs of the pain management [...]

5 Ways for Making Things Simpler in Pain Management

Bronnie’s top 5 time-saving tips!

Use standard templates for writing reports. Include codes (yes I’m a wordprocessing geek too) so you get a prompt about what to fill in.  I’ve got several, and the two I like the most are one for writing my daily notes, and one for writing the Comprehensive Pain Assessment [...]

Pain Blog Carnival

This is a monthly round-up of pain-related posts hosted by How to Cope with Pain.  Well worth a visit, you’ll usually find some gems for both clinician and people living with chronic pain.  Thanks for all your hard work (you know who you are!).

“I thought if I held out long enough, someone would find a cure”

I’ve written about acceptance before (here) , (here) oh and (here) – it’s one of those topics that seems to come up again and again (or is that ‘cos I’m looking for it?!).
I have been reading about self efficacy beliefs especially relating to beliefs about returning to work, and the thought crossed my mind that [...]

Problem solving: A practical self-help strategy

Not surprisingly, lots of people I see with chronic pain feel like they’ve landed in a hole they can’t get out of. And one of the most positive things I think I can do is show people that change is possible.
Getting out of a hole is incredibly difficult all by yourself – but oh [...]

Age can be a thief

Although I talk of my peace and contentment with my age (I think I’ve become so much more comfortable with myself as I get older), there is no doubt that being very old and having memory loss is a real tragedy.
I was wandering through the internet, winding down after gardening most of today, when I [...]

Feel like wasting a little time in the name of research?

Did I say wasting? should be spending or investing some time in research – but who am I kidding?
I came across this website last night, after I’d been out dancing for a couple of hours and needed to wind down… Anyway, it’s a legitimate research site from Aberdeen University, looking into a bunch of topics, [...]

Friday Funnies…

more animals
more animals
Gotta love ‘em!!

Goal-setting – more than just for the New Year

Yesterday I had the pleasure of catching up with some of the participants from our three-week pain management programme.  It had been six months since they attended the programme, and it was time to see how they had got on.  Sadly for some it seemed that best intentions hadn’t lead to results, but for one [...]