Sunday Conversations
Sunday Conversations - August 18, 2024
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- Last Updated: 01 September 2024 01 September 2024
“Body of Water” - Performance and Community Conversation with Sara Nesson
Sunday, August 18, 2024, 4 p.m. Eastern Time
Body of Water is a chronology of love, loss, and reconciliation that follows Sara’s journey as a landlocked distance swimmer struggling to find the way home. Set on the rugged coastline of Northern California, the 25-minute monologue weaves lyric storytelling, myth, and sacred text. Playful and poignant, it is an homage to Sara’s aquatic nature, her passion for the wilderness, and a life altered by ME/CFS.
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Sunday Conversations - June 23, 2023
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“Improving Pain Care Through Education and Policy”
Sunday, June 23, 2024, 4 p.m. Eastern Time
Cindy Steinberg
Jackie Orent-Nathan
Michele Matthews
In this edition of Sunday Conversations, we continued our series on comorbidities with a focus on pain. A panel of three presenters from the Massachusetts Pain Initiative (MassPI) presente on the work their organization does to improve the lives of people suffering from pain through knowledge, education, and policy reform. Cindy Steinberg discussed her role in past and current legislative actions, both locally and nationally. Jackie Orent-Nathan talked about pain neuroscience and about solutions that use neuroplasticity to influence the reorganization of neural networks. Michele Matthews focused on medications and provided the "Ins and Outs of Medications for Pain and Symptom Management".
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Sunday Conversations - May 19, 2024
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"Are You M.A.D.? An axis awry of Mast cell activation disease, Autonomic neuropathy, and Disorders of connective tissue"
Sunday, May 19, 2024, 4 p.m. Eastern Time
Dr. Anne Maitland
A growing body of evidence is linking heritable disorders of connective tissue, such as Ehlers Danlos Variants, with dysautonomia and mast cell dysfunction, which lead to chronic fatigue, brain fog, irritable bowel symptoms and pain syndromes. Dr. Maitland presented a brief review of the diagnosis and relationships of this clinical triad, MCAD, Autonomic dysfunction, and Disorders of connective tissue or hEDS. A better understanding of these relationships should lead to multi-disciplinary clinical therapies to help right this trio of modern day epidemics.
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Sunday Conversations - April 21, 2024
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“Got Mold? How Our Homes Impact Our Health”
Sunday, April 21, 2024, 4 p.m. Eastern Time
Michael Rubino
Michael Rubino is the co-founder and chair of Change the Air Foundation, a non-profit giving every person the knowledge, resources, and support to achieve better health by breathing safe indoor air. In this edition of Sunday Conversations with MassME, Michael discussed air quality, mold, bacteria, symptoms of living with water damage, tests for mold and air quality, and the steps we can take to make our homes safer.
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