Mardy Ross's blog

Anyone interested in the subject of chronic pain should be interested in what we were part of this weekend in Berkeley, CA.  A group of professionals and people with chronic pain or family/friends with it, came together in the most inviting, open room of an art studio and shared our experiences and knowledge for 9 hours.   Two things were most striking for me: that people with chronic pain conditions would attend in such substantial numbers and be able to stay for such an event and that many of the presenters and crew had a history of chronic pain and are sincerely passi  read more »

Mardy Ross, OTR has been invited by the documentary filmmaker doing a series on chronic pain to present at the kickoff conference in July in Berkeley, California.  We contacted Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum about it and he was then asked to present as well (on the latest research about CFIDS/FM).  The link for the conference is below, and features biographies of all presenters and their abstracts.  read more »

Last night, Lumigrate attended the well-attended live seminar at "the IMC" (link below): "Bioidentical Hormone Replacement for Women" by medical director Scott Rollins, MD.  Dr. Rollins' seminars on Lumigrate currently include 'Supplements and Disease Prevention" and "Hypothyroidism: Misunderstood, Misdiagnosed....  read more »

It's been really interesting to see what all has come our way recently.  Lumigrate has reached out and made hundreds of new friends (and we're looking forward to that continuing!), some of which are really leaders in the health care community.  The website is being recognized as valuable for progressive health seekers.  We appreciate the people who stopped by and looked around, downloaded or ordered DVDs or took the time to write in the forum areas.  We also are looking forward to continuing to foster collaborative relationships with top quality provider  read more »

We really hussled at Lumigrate to do our part with Fibromyalgia Awareness Days on Facebook today.  We've made a lot of new friends ('Lumigrate Webucation' is our business page and 'Lumigrate.com' is our group on facebook) and were pleased to see them liking the 'Clip or Tip o' the Day' enough to 'Share' it so their friends could presumably be enlightened and entertained!   read more »

This past couple of weeks, I've enjoyed getting out onto facebook and talking with people who are active in groups about fibromyalgia, hypothyroidism, and food allergies.  I've not only wanted to talk with the people who have these conditions, but the therapists and medical providers who work with them.  AND .....  read more »

It's been a fast month for us at Lumigrate since the website went live!  We appreciate everyone who has gone in and looked at our website, and we've gotten good feedback which allows us to know what we can do better.

Mostly, there has been some confusion about the 'free downloads' (of which there are three -- "Chronic Illness: Full Barrel Syndrome", for instance) versus the snippets we provide of ALL the videos.  We've provided entire videos to download for free so people can get an idea of what our video seminars are like -- Full Barrel Syndrome allows anyone to explore the process of downloading a shorter seminar and the documentation for NO COST.  It is a shorter seminar than any that are on Lumigrate for a charge -- generally the seminars are 45 minutes to an hour (some are longer and we split into two parts, such as 'Supplements and Disease Prevention)."   We've provided free snippets of every video so people can get a better sense about what the video/presenter is about.  read more »

Welcome to the folks who have gotten emails from Lumigrate or from me directly to finally annouce the long-awaited Lumigrate webucation site!  I'm looking forward to having you get involved if you have seen Dr. King, Dr. Lepisto, Dr. Rollins, or Dr. Young personally or attended a seminar or taping at Lumigrate.  Click here: forum to go to the forum section and let others know what you think!  The doctors and I will also be checking in as well.   read more »