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Answered Questions for September 2022: Information and Resources on Burn Injuries and the Pain Associated with Them
Answered Questions is a monthly resource for the Spanish language Disability Community that fills an information need. This month’s question is My spouse recently experienced a burn injury that left them in the hospital. And, due to the burn injury, … Continue reading
Pain Awareness Month – Tools to Talk About and Manage Living with Chronic Pain
This week we’re featuring tools from the NIDILRR Grantee community and elsewhere to help people living with pain and their care teams work together to manage pain and live independently. Continue reading
Posted in Right Resources Right Now, Uncategorized
Tagged chronic pain, pain, pain awareness month, pain management
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Substance Use and Disability – A Look at NIDILRR-Funded Research
Last week, NIDILRR released a Funding Opportunity Announcement for a Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects (DRRP) Program: Research on Opioid Use Disorder Among People with Disabilities. The announcement followed several months of careful research to write an opportunity that answered … Continue reading
In the Stacks – Research on Pain and Disability
In Part 1 of our Pain Awareness Month blog post, we looked at some of the ready-to-use resources from projects in the NIDILRR community that have looked at pain as a disability and as a secondary condition to physical and … Continue reading
Posted in Publications, Uncategorized
Tagged chronic pain, pain, pain awareness month, pain management, REHABDATA
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Pain May Be a Fact of Life, but There Is Help and Hope for Relief
September is Pain Awareness Month, sponsored by the American Chronic Pain Association. Millions of Americans live with pain from injuries, autoimmune and inflammatory disorders, cancer, and other disabilities. Pain can be acute, with a beginning and end, or it can … Continue reading
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Tagged chronic pain, pain, pain awareness month, pain management
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The Better Living Toolkit: A new resource from the Arthritis Foundation
May is Arthritis Awareness Month. The Arthritis Foundation has introduced a new resource, the Better Living Toolkit that allows individual’s to understand their arthritic disease and develop a treatment plan unique to their individual needs with the goal to live … Continue reading
Posted in Guide, Organization, Publications, Uncategorized, Website
Tagged #SeeArthritis, activities of daily living, Arthritis, Arthritis Awareness Month, Arthritis Foundation, Better Living Toolkit, chronic pain, communication, emotional health, functional status, goal setting, goals, health professionals, health tracker, May is Arthritis Awareness Month, medication management, pain management, Psoriatic Arthritis, quality of life, RAPID-3©, REHABDATA, Rheumatoid Arthritis, sleep, SMART goals, specialists, tips, toolkit, What is Arthritis?
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Celebrating Fibromyalgia Awareness Day! Your Voice Matters!
May 12th is Fibromyalgia Awareness Day. This year’s theme is “Your Voice Matters.” Fibromyalgia (FM) also known as fibromyalgia syndrome, fibromyositis, and fibrositis, is one of the most common chronic pain conditions. The disorder affects an estimated 10 million people … Continue reading
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Tagged chronic conditions, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), Complementary & Alternative Medicine, fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Fibromyalgia Awareness Day 2016, Gulf War Syndrome (GWS), immunological and neurological diseases, international awareness day, Massage Magazine, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS), Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain Association, pain management, treatments, Your Voice Matters
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, July 14 – Friday, July 18
Human Interest: Nordstrom ads feature models with disabilities (Fox News) Fashion retailer Nordstrom has been using models with disabilities since 1997 and continues the tradition in its annual July catalog. It includes, among others, a woman in a wheelchair modeling … Continue reading
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Tagged autism spectrum disorders, caregivers, children with diabetes, developmental disabilities, diabetes testing, diabetic peripheral neuropathy, glucose monitor, group homes, Ironman triathlon, lightweight electric wheelchair, low vision, models with disabilities, pain management, safety training, self-advocacy, TENS, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulator, type 1 diabetes
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Disability News Weekly Roundup — Monday, Feb 17 – Friday, Feb 21
Education: Start-up opens digital door for students with autism (The Philadelphia Inquirer) With financial support from the University of Pennsylvania, among other sources, Autism Expressed teaches digital skills to students with autism in Philadelphia. Founded by a teacher who saw … Continue reading
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Tagged accessible seating, adapted vehicle, adaptive equipment, assistive listening devices, autism, bionics, blind, blood glucose monitor, braille, closed captioning, cochlear implants, CT scans, deaf, diabetes, education, emergency medicine, hard of hearing, information technologies, Internet, MRI, pain management, research, sports, veterans, wheelchair users
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Northwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury System Announces two Research Study Opportunities for Individuals with SCI and/or MS
The Northwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury System (NWRSCIS) is now offering two research study opportunities for individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) and/or Multiple Sclerosis (MS): (1) Effectiveness of Physical Activity for Improving Mood in People Aging with MS or … Continue reading
Posted in Clinial/Rehab trials, Project, Research Study
Tagged aging, depression, Effexor XR, low energy, Mood, multiple sclerosis, NIDRR projects, NIDRR research, Northwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury System (NWRSCIS), pain management, physical activity, Research Study, SCI, sleep, Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems, venlafaxine XR
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Collection Spotlight from the National Rehabilitation Information Center 