What is Pain Documentary

Every year millions of people are diagnosed with chronic pain. Millions of people are added to the list of millions of individuals who were robbed of a productive life, are no longer able to afford health care, are misdiagnosed and mistreated a thousand times, watch their careers and everything they worked for disappearing, their families falling apart, falling in financial bankruptcy, getting addicted to drugs, living depressed and often ending their lives without even knowing what "hit" them.

Chronic Pain is a humanitarian crisis of epidemic proportions. The medical establishment so far failed millions of individuals, their families and loved ones. Society is deprived of talent, the next Einstein, the next great humanitarian, great father, mother, teacher, mayor, artist, etc, etc. Insurance policies are often discriminatory and do not cover enough to treat chronic pain.

The workplace has no pace for individuals in chronic pain although most injuries happen at the workplace.

Chronic pain is the invisible handicap of the 21st century's modern society.

But what if people were educated enough to know what is pain at least? Wouldn't that be the first step to treatment?

This documentary is the first of a series of Educational documentaries on Chronic Pain? This particular episode will simply explore the very fundamental question of What is Pain? Other documentaries in the series include:

1. What is Pain?
2. Chronic Pain diagnostics
3. Chronic and Western Medicine
4. Chronic Pain drug treatments
5. Chronic Pain interventional treatments
6. Chronic Pain surgical treatments
7. Human physiology and pain
8. Chronic Pain and physical therapy
9. Chronic Pain and Feldenkrais
10. Chronic Pain and Pilates
11. Chronic Pain and Eastern Medicine
12. Chronic Pain and Chi Quong
13. Chronic Pain and Yoga
14. Chronic Pain and mind over body
15. Chronic Pain and meditation
16. Chronic Pain and insurance
17. Chronic pain and navigating through the medical system
18. Chronic pain and the law
19. Chronic pain and addiction
20. Chronic Pain and relationships
21. Chronic pain and family
22. Chronic Pain and career
23. Chronic Pain and the workplace
24. Chronic Pain and personal communication skills
25. Chronic Pain and staying on top of financials
26 Chronic Pain and depression
27. Neuropathic Pain
28. Diabetes and Chronic Pain
29. Phantom Pain
30. Chronic Pain and current research trends
31. The history of pain
32. The culture of pain
33. How to form a support group for chronic pain
34. How to built a support system
35. How to communicate with your health practitioner
36. How to stay active
37. Chronic Pain and sex
38. Chronic Pain and other cultures
39. Chronic Pain and policy making
40.. Chronic Pain and the World Wide Web
41. Chronic Pain and how you can make a difference
42. Chronic Pain and exercise
43. Pharmacology and chronic pain
44. Chronic Pain and self esteem
45. How to get psychological help
46. The question of suicide
47. Does your health practitioner qualifies to treat your pain
48. Chronic pain and supplements
49. The question of medical marijuana
50. Medicare and chronic Pain
51. Medical and chronic pain
52. SSN and chronic pain
53. How to help others in chronic pain
54. Elderly and chronic pain
55. Chronic pain and animals
56. Pediatric chronic pain
57. Chronic pain and women / men
58. Medical terminology and chronic pain
59. "No Pain No Gain" an old paradigm vs more practical thinking
60+ Various segments to be added.

Other episodes will be added. The series will also profile different individuals in chronic pain or professionals that treat chronic pain. We will also profile medical and surgical procedures as well as alternative methods of treating pain.

Your contribution to this project will help millions of individuals to get educated on the most fundamental questions of what has made the most difference in their lives, a prerequisite to find answers, come up with effective solutions and help raise to their potential and in return help others.

The series will be made available on-line for individuals having mobility issues. Also the series will be made available to community centers and libraries as well as broadcast on TV. I believe education is always the first step to accomplishing solutions.

I am a filmmaker with over 20 years of experience in the field. My work has ranged from documentaries to fiction features, ,music video clips, industrial and educational videos, interactive and streaming media on both the creative and the technical side. I have experienced chronic pain for over 10 years now and know the subject on a very personal level. I managed to stay functional for the most part.


We also accept equipment donations and volunteer time, we need:

Fundraiser
Volunteer coordinator
Grip
Editor - Final Cut Pro
A web designer

Also

1 macintosh editing station
1 macintosh laptop
Movie lights
Microphones
A 1080p HD 3 2/3 chip camera
A hard drive raid


Frequent flyer miles and hotels vouchers for the crew



Best Wishes CK