Register for the Walk
Please
register early for “Power Over
Pain Walk & The 9th Annual CommunityFest”, to ensure your
entrance to make strides toward healing pain.
The Power Over Pain Walk on Saturday, February 11, 2012
starts at 10:00 a.m., with participant and sponsor
registration beginning at 8:00 a.m. outside NSU’s Alvin
Sherman Library, 3100 Ray Ferrero Jr. Blvd. in Davie, FL.
Parking is available for $1 an hour in the Alvin Sherman
Library public parking garage starting at 7:30 a.m. For more
information, please visit
http://www.nova.edu/library/about/parking.html.
Viewing stations and tents will be set up along the walk path
for supporters to watch, water distribution and care packages.
Registration for the Power Over Pain Walk is $15 for general
public, $10 for the NSU community, $5 for children and $10.00
for Virtual Walkers.
Click here to register online in advance of the event.
Walkers Receive: Entry to Nova Southeastern University's
9th Annual CommunityFest, an Official T- Shirt (to the first 200
registrants), but most importantly
you will be making a huge change in the pain community with
every stride you take.
75% of all donations will fund U.S. Pain Foundation’s efforts
to support the pain community by:
- Improving pain knowledge in the
medical and mental health community by hosting a series
of educational webinars (CEU’s) that are not limited to
“The Psychological Aspects of Pain Management”,
“Introduction to Complex Regional Pain Syndrome” and
“Sickle Cell & Pain”
- Raising chronic pain awareness
through highlighting the day-to-day experience of pain
survivors with photographs
http://www.invisibleproject.org/
- Being a forerunner in pain
advocacy and changing marginalizing policies such as the
“Why Fail First Campaign”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdYav3WEg6k
- Providing the community with pain
related resources
25% percent of all donations will
fund research from the
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Association (RSDSA),
which was founded in 1984 to promote public and professional
awareness of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), also known
as Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD).
