Focus on Pain Management

Volume 56, Number 3
Summer 2005

Artist Olea Nova  Captures Migraine Symptoms in Watercolor "Migraine in a Split," the art featured on this issue's cover, is the work of artist Olea Nova. To create this piece and others in her "Piercing Conflict" series, Ms. Nova interviewed migraine sufferers. What she learned is that migraine pain "appears to be something happening inside of the brain, a sort of electrical brain storm." Fine art reproductions of "Migraine in a Split" and others on varied subjects such as love, success and loss, games people play and addictions may be viewed and purchased on Ms. Nova's website (www.oleanova.com). She also creates works commissioned for specific purposes such as medical study and research. Click here for more information about the artist and the artwork.

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• From the Editor's Desk: The Medicare SGR Formula: The edge of the cliff is approaching fast
   

• From the Executive Vice President: Membership has its Privileges
   

• Guest Editor's Note: Tangled Up in Blue
  Timothy Sternberg, MD
   

• Pain as a Chronic Disease
  Marla Golden, DO
   

• Migraine Headache: Origins, Consequences, Diagnosis and Treatment
  Michael T. Pulley, MD, Nader Antonios, MD and Walter F. Ray, MD
   

• Cancer Pain and Symptom Management
  Timothy L. Sternberg, DMD, MD and Sherry King, MD
   

• Low Back Pain: Update on Evaluation and Management with Focus on Minimally Invasive Therapeutic Options
  S. Scott Kramarich, MD and Craig A. Kornick, MD
   

• Acupuncture in Pain Management
  Alan K. Halperin, MD
   

• Psychological Aspects of Chronic, Nonmalignant Pain: Moving from "Reality Vertigo" to Hope
  Heidi A. Pomm, PhD