This segment, featuring Woman In Pain, Radene Marie Cook, and Dr. David Bresler, founder of UCLA's Pain Control Center, spotlights the power of art therapy for pain management and wellness optimizing.
For Grace's 3rd Annual Women In Pain Conference took place on September 17th, 2010 at the California Endowment's Center for Healthy Communities in downtown Los Angeles.
Denise Dador, Health Specialist for KABC7, covers For Grace's 3rd Annual Women In Pain Conference that took place in Los Angeles in September 2010. The piece features our emcee, Geri Jewel and pain-control power of laughter...
Cheryl England, Editor-in-Chief of Southern California Physician magazine, provides an overview of the unethical prescription practices insurance companies utilize to deny women in pain essential medications.
Loretta Jones, Director of Healthy African American Families (HAAF) and her daughter Felica Jones discuss the challenges of family caregiving vs. chronic pain. HAAF co-sponsored the 2nd Annual Women In Pain Conference: Gender Matters - Building Brides to Optimum Health with For Grace.
Jean Davis, Ph.D., of Charles Drew University, along with actors David Zimmerman and Yennifer Behrens, dramatize the typically unfortunate encounter between physican and pain patient.
For Grace founder & spokesperson, Cynthia Toussaint, provides inspiration, highlighting the events that lead to the Women In Pain movement. For Grace's 2nd Annual Women In Pain Conference: Gender Matters was held at the California Sceince Center in downtown Los Angeles.
Dr. Steven Richeimer, Director of the University of Southern California's Pain Management Center, discusses the pros and cons of traditonal (allopathic) pain control therapies.
Patricia Wynn-Jones, M.D., Chief of Integrative Pain Medicine at Olympia Hospital Los Angeles, highlights effective alternative and complimentary pain management therapies that often get overlooked.
Diane Hoffmann, Director of the Law and Health Care Program and Professor of Law at University of Maryland, provides insight into why women are prone to chronic pain conditions, yet typically receive less care than their male counterparts. Ms. Hoffmann was the co-author of "The Girl Who Cried Pain", the seminal report that inspired For Grace's Women In Pain movement.
