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RSD & Women In Pain National Awareness Campaign and Resource Center

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For Grace's RSD & Women In Pain National Awareness Campaign and Resource Center utilizes the talents and passions of those with Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy and women with persistent pain disorders, along with their families and friends, to bring much needed education about chronic pain as a major health crisis to our communities.

Provided is a web-based forum as our meeting place, complete with suggested tools and resources on how to bring RSD and the plight of women in pain awareness to your local area. NAC is built on the premise that every one of us can take an inspired action daily, no matter how large or small, to change the chronic pain experience--one person at a time. This is a grass-roots, community-driven force that is empowered by the sheer will of the individual to make change. Forever.

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Check out For Grace's new YouTube site, complete with our Discovery Health feature, our RSD PSA... and much more

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Stop the Press!!  Get a look at the New York Times first-ever feature on RSD/CRPS

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National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
800-273-TALK (888-628-9454)

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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”

--Margaret Mead, anthropologist

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The RSD & Women In Pain National Awareness Campaign and Resource Center is made possible
through a grant from The Medtronic Foundation, a
valued partner of For Grace.

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RSD Awareness Kits Now Available!

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***Welcome to NAC***

Please introduce yourself by starting here

RSD/WIP Awareness Today = Lives Saved: The Purpose of NAC

New To Delphi Forums? Take Delphi's Tour to get oriented and on board!

NAC Rules & Guidelines

Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD): Find Out More About It

Another Good Overview of RSD

Women In Pain Initiative

Begin raising awareness today! RSD handouts, posters, stickers and info cards available here.

Have an upcoming RSD/WIP awareness activity or action planned? Share it with the group

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Need that special item to get the word out about RSD/WIP? 

Please check out For Grace's RSD/WIP Awareness boutique 

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***The RSD Experience***

Click here for a look at how RSD feels

Artwork created by Kevin Clark of Leitchfield, KY.

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***NAC Introductions***

Cynthia Toussaint, Founder, For Grace

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Great new RSD book available NOW, "Positive Options for Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy" by NAC'r Elena Juris. 

***Read all about it!***  

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***Laugh Your Pain Away!!***

Get Your Daily Dose Here 

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***Media Outreach***

Number of People reached by NAC-generated RSD/WIP media to date: 325,000,000...and much more coming :)

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“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” --Ralph Waldo Emerson

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***Announcements***

The Intractable Pain Patient's Handbook for Survival

Woman & Pain: What a Pain!  See this Discovery Health article...

Check out this NYC RSD'ers beautiful photography work-- and her idea how to spread awareness   

Follow RSD'er Shannon Stocker's Extraordinary Ketamine Coma Treatment in Mexico!!!

Self-Help: Forgiveness and Pain 

Great history lesson on Medicinal Marijuana

Overview of Ketamine Infusion Therapy

Excellent Resource on Social Security Disability and Pain Conditions 

Methadone: The New Pain Control Plague

Landmark study shows Medicinal Marijuana KO's Pain with fewer side effects than conventional painkillers.   

For Grace Champions First-Ever RSD/CRPS Feature in Woman's Day magazine!!  Link here... 

Surviving A Loved One's Chronic Pain 

2007 Pain Medication Resource from the American Chronic Pain Association

Weather Makes Your Pain Run Hot and Cold?  Find our why.... 

New Help on Horizon for those with Fibromyalgia

Wonderful New Resource Available on How Chronic Pain Impacts the Family 

Great Overview About Neuropathic Pain! 

Perception of Pain graphic

Check out this great piece in the Washington Post about how men and women differ in their perception of pain

Gender Plays Important Role In Pain Perception!  Read all about it!

The Holidays are here!!  How Women In Pain can keep things in check... 

***Act Now!!*** Physical Therapists Need Patient's Help to Extend Medicare Cap

RSD'er Real Life Hero in Michigan. Read This Amazing Story!!

RSD Teen Looking for Help With Upcoming Fundraiser. Can you Pitch In?

Tracy Z scores another one on NPF's homepage.  Great RSD awareness raising!!

Nac'er Trace Zuckerman has written a great article that appears on this month's National Pain Foundation homepage.  Please give it a read... 

RSD'er Rhonda Hosting Pain Expo in AZ

Nerve Injury Study Proves that RSD Exists

Nice article on RSD'ers Run for Political Office.  Cast Your Vote!

Link to Carol's GREAT article that ran in the Yakima (WA) Herald Republic, reaching over 50,000 folk with RSD education and awareness.     

Dorthy and Alli are spreading RSD Awareness far and wide in Michigan.  Get the scoop...

Yakima, Washington Gets a Big Dose of RSD Awareness, thanks to NAC'er Carol!!!  YAY!!!!  Go, Carol, GO!!!

Great RSD piece appears in a Canadian paper, compliments of NAC'er Connie.  Thank you, Connie!!!  

For Grace's RSD segement on Discovery Health's "Mystery Diagnosis" is re-airing this month.  Here are the times and dates...   

HOT off the presses!!!  Please see the great RSD article featuring our NAC co-ordinator Nancy Cotterman!!   

Even more outstanding RSD Awareness out of the Peach State.  RSD Awareness month proclaimed in Georgia!!!  Read NAC'er Mary's report... 

Hot off the presses--great RSD Awareness news out of Oklahoma!!  NAC'er Jim spreading the word far and wide!!

Fantastic RSD Awareness news out of Michigan.  See what NAC'er Dorthy and her daughter Alli are up to!!

The Holidays are drawing near.  Here' s a great way to spread RSD Awareness cheer.... compliments of NAC'er Nancy Renee!

Airing Dates Announced for Discovery Health's Mystery Diagnosis RSD episode!

Great RSD Profile in this week's The New Yorker.  Here's a Q & A with the writer, Dr. Jerome Groopman of Harvard University...  and here's a PDF copy of the full article 

New Los Angeles-based RSD Support Group.  Get the scoop...  

Updated Info Here About Pennsylvania Support Group 

RSD Awareness Parades in the Big Sky State (MT).  Mrs. Southwestern Montana Tips her Tiara :)

New RSD Support Group Springs up in the Big Apple.  Take a bite!

Get the Scoop on a RSD Awareness Walk to be held in Pennsylvania in the fall :) 

NAC'er Dorthy's daughter Alli Is Makin' the RSD Awareness Magic happen in Michigan.  Get all the great details 

Laughing the RSD away--no joke!... find out more about this wonderful fund/awareness raiser hosted by Design For Living

The Dynamic Dana Duo do it again in Glendale (CA)-- May as RSD Awareness month!!   

Exciting National RSD Quilt Project Kicks Off-- Find out all about it 

It WAS a Walk to Remember... Get the scoop on the Redlands, CA RSD Walk-a-thon hosted by NAC'er Lisa Bratton  

City of Burbank proclaims May as RSD awareness month!

RSD Awareness months proclaimed right and left in California.  Please see what NAC'er Dana Gambill is making happen!!

RSD Awareness coming to the LA streets!!  Check out this health fair booth planned for one of the city's biggest!!   Go, the Dynamic Dana Duo, GO!!! 

Another RSD book is available for the communtiy... find out more

WONDERFUL awareness happenings going on at the Pasadena, CA RSD support group.  Please take a look to get the lastest and greatest!  

Strap on some RSD Awareness.  Group offers RSD Awareness bracelets for $2.  Find out more!

Great RSD awareness bracelet fundraiser at RSDHope to raise funding for research.  Please take a peek :)  

RSD Awareness Comes to the Peach State (GA)!  Please see this great RSD feature profiling our own LightnGirl, Susan Gilbert, that ran today in her local paper.  Goooo, Susan!!

NAC'r Lisa Bratton is getting May proclaimed RSD Awareness Month in Redlands, CA.  Read it-- and believe it!! 

PLEASE take a look at this incredible letter written by NAC'r Toni Amarel to CA legislators  requesting support for the CA RSD Education Bill.   Thank you, Toni, for inspiring others!!

Please, PLEASE check out this INCREDIBLE Letter to the Editor written by NAC co-ordinator Dana Gambill about the chronic under assessment of pain in this country-- and what a pain patient can do about it.  Be inspired to take action in your community!!  GO DANA!!  

CA RSD Education Bill to be introduced Friday (Feb. 18th).  Get the scoop-- and get ready to start writing those letters of support! 

NAC's "Bedheadred", Dana Wilson, has opened an on-line store of RSD awareness merchandise for fundraisers, awareness-raisers, etc.  The "Open" sign's out-- please take a look!

NAC'r Toni Gets May Proclaimed as RSD Awareness Month in Folsom (CA)!  Read all about it... and do the same in your town :)   

Please check out these great tips about starting your own RSD support group.  Thank you, Rhonda! 

NAC'r Rhonda Smith takes RSD Awareness to the Tucson (AZ) airways.  See it to believe it!

Superb feature article about NAC'r/RSD book author Toni Amarel runs today in Northern California.  Take a gander  

CA NAC'rs Unite!!!  May is RSD Awareness month in the Golden State--and here's an easy, effective way to mark it in your community!

Great RSD Awareness News out of Tucson, AZ.  Congrats, NAC'r Rhonda!

RSD Education Bills "green-lighted" for Michigan & California.  YAHOO!!!  Great RSD awareness already in the works for 2005!

Inspiring new book by NAC'r Toni that helps family members, etc. understand the RSD experience.  Please give it a look-see. 

Please see this inspirational post by NAC'r Lynn.  Beautiful!

Here's a wonderful letter to share with friends and family to help understand the RSD experience.  Please take a look... 

Fun in the sun, come one, come all!!!  RSD picnic in PA!!

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The contents of this forum are copyrighted by For Grace 2003-2006

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