These articles explore the experience of being disabled by pain and injury, while focusing on relationships and communication.
- The Experience of Newly Diagnosed Spinal Cord Injury is written for family and friends of spinal cord injury patients.
- Chronic Pain and Emotional Health explains how the body understands chronic pain from a physiological perspective, and how this process differs from its way of understanding acute pain.
- An excerpt from Arthur Rosenfeld's book The Truth About Chronic Pain speaks from the patients' perspectives and explores how to talk with a person who is in chronic pain.
- "Bankruptcies of the Heart" compares the losses from being disabled by chronic pain to the perceived gains. It's an eye-opener.
- "Chronic Pain and the Family" lays out 5 principles for viewing families as systems.
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Last Updated: February 7, 2006
