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By CARLA K. JOHNSON
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CHICAGO -- Ballet teacher Gayle Parseghian thought she might never = dance=20 again after a back injury while moving heavy furniture left her with = unrelenting=20 pain.

But an intensive, four-week "boot camp" got the 55-year-old dancer = from=20 Toledo, Ohio, back to the barre. The program at the Rehabilitation = Institute of=20 Chicago taught her to manage the chronic pain that had tormented her for = more=20 than a year.

"It affects your relationship with your spouse, your family, your = friends,=20 your boss," she said. "It's like you're trapped in your body and you = can't get=20 out. It's a feeling of being completely out of control."

New research suggests chronic pain affects the brain's ability to = rest,=20 disrupting a system that normally charges up some brain regions and = powers down=20 others when a person relaxes.

"I ask a patient who has had chronic pain for 10 years to put the = mind blank,=20 don't think about anything," says Dr. Dante Chialvo, a researcher at=20 Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine who is not = involved with=20 the boot camp.

MRI images show the pain sufferer's brain lighting up, but not as a = normal=20 brain at rest would, he said. "There is an objective biological = difference in=20 the brain."

The early findings could explain the sleep disturbances, = decision-making=20 problems and mood changes that often accompany chronic pain, he said. =

And they could explain why the boot camp approach worked for = Parseghian.

The Chicago program, affiliated with Northwestern's medical school, = attacks=20 pain on three fronts _ biological, psychological and social. It doesn't = claim to=20 cure chronic pain, but instead gives patients tools to lessen its hold = on their=20 lives.

Patients spend Monday through Friday stretching, exercising and = moving in new=20 ways. They meet with a physician, an occupational therapist, a physical=20 therapist, a biofeedback therapist, a clinical psychologist and a = movement=20 specialist.

They may address depression or sleep problems or adjust their = medications.=20 And they learn from the other patients in the program.

Getting all of these things under one roof differs from most = approaches to=20 treating chronic pain, said Dr. Steven Stanos, the program's medical = director.=20


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