Oregon Pain Management Commission

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Listmates: This month the OCA has gained another position that will continue to advance us in the state and amidst the other health disciplines, giving them the opportunity to learn more about us and what we can and do achieve, especially with chronic pain. Through the appointment of yours truly to a four year position as one of 19 Commissioners charged with defining and establishing the suggested pain managment curriculum for schools, trainings and pain clinics to use as a guideline for managing acute and chronic pain, over the next two years - and following up on the work done by Dr. Saboe on the Low Back Guidelines, we will most likely be able to take the suggestion of adding CAM procedures to a chronic pain picture from the bottom of the list of suggested interventions to the T O P!!! Having just returned from my first encounter with the Commission, it is easy to see how we are going to be able to be influential on and in the new paradign abuilding! I am very excited about it. While they may not yet be ' speaking our rangruage', they seem interested in learning. I will continue to keep you all updated on progress of the Commission and its events as they occur. Please feel free to write to me with questions, ideas and suggestions. As Vern says: to the continued good fight! Sunny It takes all of us to keep all of us in practice! Sunny Kierstyn, RN DC Fibromyalgia Care Center of Oregon 2677 Willakenzie Road, 7CEugene, Oregon, 97401541- 654-0850; Fx; 541- 654-0834www.drsunnykierstyn.com