Chronic Back Pain Specialist Oak Lawn IL
Internal Medicine, Rheumatology
Gender
Female
Education
Medical School: Univ Of Jordan, Fac Of Med, Amman, Jordan
Graduation Year: 1990
Rheumatology
Rheumatology
Internal Medicine, Rheumatology
Gender
Male
Education
Medical School: Northwestern Univ Med Sch, Chicago Il 60611
Graduation Year: 1979
Hospital
Hospital: St James Hosp And Health Ctr, Chicago Hts, Il; Christ Hosp And Med Ctr, Oak Lawn, Il; St James Hosp And Health Ctr -, Olympia Flds, Il; Palos Comm Hosp, Palos Heights, Il
Group Practice: Wellgroup Healthpartners
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Education
Medical School: Llrm Med Coll, Meerut Univ, Meerut, Up, India
Year of Graduation: 1979
Speciality
Rheumatologist
General Information
Accepting New Patients: Yes
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Rheumatology
Internal Medicine, Rheumatology
Gender
Female
Education
Medical School: Maulana Azad Med Coll, Univ Of Delhi, New Delhi, Delhi, India
Graduation Year: 1992
Internal Medicine, Rheumatology
Gender
Male
Education
Medical School: All India Inst Of Med Sci, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, Delhi, India
Graduation Year: 1974
Hospital
Hospital: Palos Comm Hosp, Palos Heights, Il
Internal Medicine, Rheumatology
Gender
Male
Education
Medical School: Univ Of Il Coll Of Med, Chicago Il 60680
Graduation Year: 1989
Rheumatology
Chronic Back Pain
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Pain and anger seem to go hand in hand. Clinical research has shown that chronic low-back pain sufferers tend to have high levels of anger and that anger exacerbates the experience of pain. Now an innovative pilot study shows that loving-kindness meditation—a Buddhist technique for fostering love and transforming anger into compassion—can help reverse the cycle.
“Basically we broke new ground in investigating a method that a lot of people have been using for thousands of years to see if it works for an average person with chronic back pain,” says Jim Carson, PhD, of the Duke University Medical Center and the study’s lead author.
The study tested an eight-week loving-kindness program for chronic low-back pain patients, who were randomly assigned to conventional care or the meditation intervention. The patients who used loving-kindness techniques showed significant improvements in their pain and psychological distress levels that correlated to the time spent practicing the meditation on any given day.
“I was somewhat surprised by how people, once they started using the methods, reported changes in their life and relationships,” Carson says. Who knows, showing a little bit of kindness and compassion may be the ultimate form of pain relief.
—Elizabeth Marglin
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