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Laurel Gavin and John Horlivy have extended information about chronic pain to the Nevada County community via essays published in The Union.

Laurel Gavin

Part Three of Laurel's continuing series "Living with chronic pain" appeared in The Union on June 13, 2008:

Living With Chronic Pain — Part Three
By Laurel Gavin

When medications, injections and pep talks from family and friends haven't chased away the beast of chronic pain, a plethora of other treatments are available. Chronic pain, defined by the American Chronic Pain Association as that which "continues longer than six months, and is not completely relieved by medication or medical treatment". (Some doctors bring the timeframe down to three months.) For newcomers, these definitions are essential as early medical intervention, diagnosis and treatments can often keep even serious injuries from developing into a lifetime of pain.

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The second part of her series appeared on May 16, 2008 :

Living With Chronic Pain — Part Two
By Laurel Gavin

Last month's article on the subject of how to live with chronic pain defined "chronic" as that which "continues longer than six months, and is not completely relieved by medication or medical treatment," from the American Chronic Pain Association...

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And the first part appeared on April 4, 2008:

Living With Chronic Pain — Part One
By Laurel Gavin

If you are gripping your shoulder, icing your knee for the fifth time today, afraid this ferocious beast has moved in forever, join the one out of three people who live with chronic pain.

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Then, on June 22, 2008,The Union published John Horlivy's response to Part Three of "Living with chronic pain" as a Letter to the Editor titled "Try 'Body Talk' for pain relief."

The letter affirms what John sees as the practical wisdom of Laurel's suggestion that seekers of relief from chronic pain try physical therapy, " even if they did not find it helpful the first time." John comments on the positive effects of Body Talk therapy he has experiences as a client of Tricia Baker of Spring Hill Physical Therapy. Tricia, some of us will recall, visited the support group on March 5, 2008, to explain Body Talk Access and another therapy called Brain Magic.

Try Body Talk for Pain Relief

A Letter to the Editor of The Union
June 22, 2008

By John Horlivy

As a person with no little experience in dealing with chronic pain (12 years of trying virtually every technique available to reduce the pain, but without success), I would like to compliment Laurel Gavin for her thorough commentary on chronic pain treatments in her recent Union article, "Living with chronic pain" (June 13). Her descriptions of the growing number of treatments available for confronting what she calls "the beast" give hope to those of us trying to manage pain.

I agree with her suggestion "that people who have tried physical therapy in the past might wish to go back and try it again, even if they did not find it helpful the first time. Therapists often differ in their approaches and newer techniques are now available."

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