Patient Stories
In Severe Pain for Eight Years, Retired Teacher Finds Relief at UAMS
Complex regional pain syndrome is rare, affecting only one in 300,000 people. Yet it is the most painful chronic disease known to humankind, according to the McGill pain index. And some patients live with this disease for years and even decades before ever receiving a diagnosis. Johnathon Goree, M.D., director of the chronic pain division […]
Spinal Cord Stimulator Virtually Erases Woman’s Chronic Pain
For 18 months, Joyce Williamson lived with constant pain. The discomfort was so intense that there were days she did not want to get out of bed. “Being in pain takes a lot out of you,” Williamson said. “It was constant, burning, bone-crushing pain. It affected my work, everything. I was beginning to feel depressed.” […]
Pennsylvania Woman Finds Better Life Through UAMS Pain Clinic
Carye Beavers is always in pain. The 45-year-old has a degenerative bone disease that was made worse by a car accident in 2011. Before she discovered relief from the UAMS pain management clinic, Beavers says her days usually ended around noon because it hurt too much to function regularly beyond that. “On a scale of […]