MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'hurts'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:23:54 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4876387&cid=t_177525_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fbrain-imaging-shows-overlap-between-emotional-pain-and-physical-pain%2F2011.05.28 Heart-ache can be a literal thing, as well as a metaphor for all those weepy, jilted-lover torch songs. Consensus thinking in the peer-review literature is that the parts of one’s brain responsible for physical pain, the dorsal anterior cingulate and anterior insula, also underlie emotional pain. Researchers at Columbia University in New York recruited 40 people who’d recently ended a romantic relationship, put them in a functional magnetic resonance imaging machine, and recorded their reactions to physical and then emotional pain. Physical pain was created by heating the person’s left forearm, compared to having the arm merely warmed. Emotional pain was created by looking at pictures of the former partner and remembering the breakup, compared to when looking at a photo o... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4876387 Sat, 28 May 2011 14:00:00 +0100 4876387 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4183298&cid=t_177525_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Feverybody-hurts-powerful-gripping-emotionally-charged-piece-about-drinking-and-driving%2F2010.11.19 A gripping piece by the Transport Accident Commission (TAC) in Victoria about  drinking and driving and the use of illicit drugs. Words cannot depict this powerful and graphic piece. Take a look: TAC Campaign: 20-Year Anniversary Retrospective Montage “Everybody Hurts” “On December 10, 1989 the first TAC commercial went to air. That year the road toll was 776. Twenty years on it has fallen to 303. There is still a long way to go.” You’ll find more TAC Victoria videos HERE. Your turn We would love to hear from you. Did this video move you in any way? Did it increase your awareness? We would love for you to share your insightful thoughts. As always, thank you for your time. *This blog post was originally published at Health in 30* (Source: Better Health) Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4183298 Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:00:18 +0100 4183298 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2939424&cid=t_177525_117_f&fid=38158&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.drneedles.comhttp%3A%2F%2Famericanacupuncture.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F10%2Freform-expensive-for-seniors.html As a medical physician for over 51 years, I strive to give you the best medical information on controversial medical subjects, and help your read betwwen the lines. You must come to your own conclusions. I have no ties to any organization, pharmaceutical, or lobby group. As an practicing medical acupuncturist since 1982, I find western medicine and medical acupuncture are very complimentary. This results in astounding healing in pain management, addictions to cigarettes and food, and a host of other maladies. Visit drneedles is blogging" at the end of each blog for a complete alphabetical list of all my blogs. Visit http://www.americanacupuncture.com/ for more detailed information on mind, body, and spirit healing.SENIORS, OPEN YOUR WALLETSMedicare costs 13% of the federal budget ($391 bil... Dr. Needles Medical Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2939424 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:55:00 +0100 2939424 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2452706&cid=t_177525_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F06%2F04%2Fself-honesty-knowing-is-better-than-not-knowing%2F The truth hurts sometimes, but trying to keep an obvious truth hidden inside yourself can hurt even more. Making excuses doesn’t help, rationalizing doesn’t help, yelling doesn’t help. Bringing yourself to a painful but honest realization will actually do you more good. When some of my clients have been avoiding a problem and struggling with reality, I have often said something like this, “You can think that way about your problem if you like, pretend it isn’t there. Or you can face the truth and acknowledge its existence. Either way, the reality of your problem will still be there. You just have more power to make your situation better if you face it.” This has usually gotten a knowing look from the people I’ve worked with. By that point, they ha... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2452706 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:52:44 +0100 2452706 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1363699&cid=t_177525_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F04%2F10%2Fstereotyping-that-hurts-stereotyping-that-helps%2F Scientific American has a lengthy article in this month’s issue about how stereotyping affects our performance on specific tasks (one of the positive findings that psychological research has brought us in the past two decades). But contrary to conventional wisdom, stereotyping not only hurts us, but can also help us. The article summarizes research from the past few decades that shows when people are reminded of a negative stereotype that pertains to a group they identify with (e.g., race or gender), they do worse on a specific task than when a control group isn’t given the reminder. For instance, when women subjects were reminded that “women are no good at math,” they did worse at a math task. But the article also noted that this can be used for beneficial purpo... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1363699 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:34:11 +0100 1363699 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1215443&cid=t_177525_109_f&fid=35677&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBrainBasedBusiness%2F%7E3%2F230984333%2Fpersonnel_pain_hurts_business.html People who come to work with chronic pain problems … show difficulty in making even simple decisions … according to new research on chronic pain’s harm to the brain. Researcher Dante Chivalo  found that  people with chronic pain suffer from a front region of the cortex mostly associated with emotion that “never shuts up.” Because pain affected mental areas fail to deactivate when they should … workers’ brains are stuck in full throttle ... wearing out neurons and altering their connections to each other. When pain keeps certain areas of the brain active over time, the brain rewires itself for this dysfunctional perception and apparently the changed wiring can disrupt normal brain behaviors. How so? The new wiring created unde... BrainBasedBusiness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1215443 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:32:47 +0100 1215443 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=903847&cid=t_177525_151_f&fid=35793&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thejunkyswife.com%2F2007%2F09%2Fraised-by-wolves.html Occasionally, when my husband has done something that seems completely insane, and I start asking him where in the world he got the idea that his behavior is anything like acceptable for a grown man, he will talk and talk and talk in that addict-ass way he has:Well, I mean, I just thought that, it's funny how, hold me, I just need some space, can you buy me things, I don't feel like, I just thought you could, and I was thinking that maybe I could just, I need, why do you always try to control me, can I borrow $300,etc.And then I remember that he really might not know better. He grew up with parents in active addiction for much of his childhood...shuffled back and forth from relative to relative during the worst of it and left home to take care of himself during the better times. He's livin... Heroin Addiction Codependence blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=903847 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:50:00 +0100 903847 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=799409&cid=t_177525_151_f&fid=35793&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thejunkyswife.com%2F2007%2F08%2Fmy-raw-read-heart.html I cross my heart and hope to die.It's one of those days when all I want is to go home and hide under the covers. Sometimes, it feels like we've been in survival mode for far too long.Wait...we've been in survival mode for far too long.Panic is becoming my baseline emotion. It's not safe, anywhere. There's no one to trust, and I feel like I have to hide everything, everywhere I go, from everyone. I'd like to go away, or get rescued and taken away, but I can't.I've got bills.And sometimes, I really feel the world shrinking. I could take a pin from the inside of my mind and just barely pierce the surface, and all of this would dissappear. I want my mental real estate back. I need to do some evicting.I went to check out a few martial arts schools. At one, they only spoke Spanish and only taugh... Heroin Addiction Codependence blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=799409 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:12:00 +0100 799409 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=500804&cid=t_177525_136_f&fid=35332&url=http%3A%2F%2Fyouainthearditfromme-rice.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F03%2Fmy-port.html One of the things that I notice about myself is that I have a difficult time maintaining my train of thought lately. This is a side effect of chemo but many people get it just from everyday aging. My surgeon calls it chemo brain and I can't seem to shake it.The day my port was put in I went to LIJ Hospital. I lied to the parking attendant and told him I was there for chemo and we got to park for free. Another commandment down the drain.The operating room was really yucky , dirty and dark and just not comfortable. I was shaking so bad, I could not warm up. I was really ice cold. They talk to you and try to be nice but the surgeon was a cold fish and I didn't want him near me. I guess at this point , I didn't want anyone near me, I had no breasts and they needed to look while I was awake. I ... You Aint Heard It From Me blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=500804 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:44:00 +0100 500804