But then he expanded into pain management, a practice that attracts younger, manipulative drug-seekers.
Dr. Kerns said the veterans affairs medical system, as well as the Pentagon's health system, have been expanding alternative pain treatment programs to reduce the use of opioids, including acupuncture, chiropractic medicine, physical therapy, exercise therapy and relaxation techniques.
There was an expanded view of pain and suffering, as well as, accepting the duality of pain and suffering that relate to unexpected benefits that derive from illness.
As the evening wore on, the pain expanded to fill every cavity in my body.
In the following decades, research on the problem of pain expanded significantly.
In time, its use has expanded for managing noncancer pain, including pain in the geriatric population.
Initially introduced as a way to treat severe cancer pain, indications for spinal infusion pumps have been expanded to include nonmalignant pain and spasticity.
Our knowledge of the ion channels, receptors and signalling mechanisms involved in pain pathophysiology, and which specific channels play a role in subtypes of pain such as neuropathic and inflammatory pain, has expanded considerably in recent years.
In 1994, the company launched Partners Against Pain, a public-education program that at first concentrated on cancer pain and later expanded to include other forms of long-term pain.
But behind the elliptical banalities of daily life lay a world of private pain which expanded, through a series of monologues, into a vision of impending apocalypse.
