The evidence on pain: A new blog

Millions of older adults throughout our country live with chronic pain – a disabling and costly disorder. Two years ago, Cornell helped establish an evidence-based center in New York City called the Translational Research Institute for Pain in Later Life, or TRIPLL, to help older adults prevent and manage their pain.

TRIPLL is a collaboration between six institutions: Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell-Ithaca, Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, Hospital for Special Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Visiting Nurse Service of New York and Council of Senior Centers & Service of NYC, Inc.

The center aims to build evidence-based practices for pain prevention and treatment, and then disseminate that information to older adults in New York City.

Now the center has launched a blog — http://tripll.org/blog/ — to share research-based information to help those dealing with chronic pain. The blog covers the latest pain research, and also share stories of people living and coping with chronic pain.

“Poorly treated pain has profound consequences for older adults,” said TRIPLL director M. Cary Reid, a geriatrician at Weill Cornell Medical Center.  He  estimates that as many as 40 percent of seniors living independently in the U.S. suffer from chronic pain.

“Unfortunately, older adults and their doctors often dismiss chronic pain as part of aging, causing it to be neglected,” he said. “We want to raise this overlooked issue and improve how we treat pain in older adults.”

 If you or someone who love copes with chronic pain, the TRIPLL blog is a must-read to find out what the evidence says about pain management and hear stories from others coping with chronic pain.

Comments

  1. Its normal so dont’ stress yourself. Try and get dry things, I find that lightly salted chips help me at work, so when I start to feel the nausea I go and buy the chips and I feel better. Crackers also help, I also found when I was 8 wks that eating a couple of Marie biscuits in the morning helped. Actually Marie biscuits was the best thing to eat.
    I am now going on 12 wks and am still getting sick, the smell of chicken makes me vomit. Try and find out what smells and tastes affect you and stay away from them. Drink alot of water that also seems to help settle the tummy.

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