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Chronic lower pack pain may be pyschological rather than physical (5/5/09)The following is the first in a series of articles and features on chronic back pain. "Tell someone who is suffering from ongoing low back pain that it is all in their head and you are likely to get yours bitten off." That is what I heard from Dr. James Flowers, the director of Sierra Tucson's Pain Management Clinic, during a lecture I endured recently at a San Diego conference while vainly shifting around in my chair, trying to relieve my shrewish lower back pain...
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Live like life depends on it (3/10/09)In times like these, we look to many sources for comfort, for hope. Many look to their faith or their families, many are looking to our young president to give us the "audacity of hope," and some of us -- like me -- start looking at the easy sentiments of greeting cards. Don't be shocked: extraordinary times require extraordinary measures...