Pain Epidemic

Don Goldenberg, MD, is Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine and a member of the Adjunct Faculty, Departments of Medicine and Nursing at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland OR, where he resides. Dr. Goldenberg has published more than 200 articles in scientific journals covering many areas of arthritis, rheumatology and chronic pain. His book, Fibromyalgia, A Leading Expert’s Guide to Understanding and Getting Relief from the Pain that Won’t Go Away (2002), sold more than 20,000 copies in the US and the UK. He received the Marion Ropes Lifetime Achievement Award, Massachusetts Arthritis Foundation, in 2008 and was named a Master of the American College of Rheumatology in 2009. He is the Section Editor for Pain Disorders in Rheumatology, Up to Date. Dr. Goldenberg has been included in each edition of The Best Doctors in America and selected as one of the “Best Doctors in Boston” by Boston Magazine. His medical expertise has made him widely sought out for commentary on national and local television. He’s been interviewed on the “Today” show and “Good Morning America” and his work on chronic illnesses has been covered in the New York Times, The Boston Globe and the New Yorker.

Armed with first-hand knowledge from his personal and professional lives, [Goldenberg] advocates for an interdisciplinary approach that can include yoga, meditation, and exercise. After all, he writes, chronic pain always involves both the mind and the body. Exercise, seemingly the cheapest, most effective elixir, decreases pain and improves cognitive and psychological health. Goldenberg assures readers that sufferers may understandably feel helpless and hopeless, but they can be reassured that chronic pain can be managed.