Chronic Pain

The Chronic Pain Solution: Your Personal Path to P...

Every morning, more than 50 million Americans wake up to another day in pain. If you are one of them, you know the way chronic pain can take over your life: the lost work and missed pleasures, the harsh drugs or surgeries, the feelings of anger and frustration, the endless search from doctor to doctor. It doesnt have to be that way. This remarkable book, by one of the leading pain specialists in America, puts in your hands...

The Chronic Pain Control Workbook: A Step-By-Step ...

Incorporating charts, diagrams, and illustrations, an easy-to-use workbook offers a practical, rational approach to controlling chronic pain through exercise, stress management, psychological techniques, medications, and support groups. Original. IP....

Managing Chronic Pain: A Cognitive-Behavioral Ther...

Chronic pain has a multitude of causes, many of which are not well understood or effectively treated by medical therapies. Individuals with chronic pain often report that pain interferes with their ability to engage in occupational, social, or recreational activities. Sufferers’ inability to engage in these everyday activities may contribute to increased isolation, negative mood and physical deconditioning, which in...

Living with Chronic Pain, Second Edition: The Comp...

Chronic pain is a condition that afflicts over 50 million Americans. Chronic pain can be a symptom of a variety of illnesses, injuries, or chronic conditions. From back pain to migraine headaches to arthritis, from sports injuries to cancer, chronic pain can afflict anyone at any age. It is one of the most frequently under-treated conditions and, even worse, many doctors simply ignore it. Chronic pain specialist Dr....

Conquering Your Child’s Chronic Pain: A Pedi...

From a renowned expert in the field, a parent’s guide to managing their child’s chronic painto give back normal life to the 1 in 5 children for whom pain is a serious problem. A child’s chronic pain undermines school performance and social and emotional health, erodes finances, and devastates the family. This book reveals what parents can do to alleviate their child’s pain on a daily basis. Dr....

Reversing Chronic Pain: A 10-Point All-Natural Pla...

Reversing Chronic Pain offers a dynamic framework for joining body and mind to speed the healing of traumatic pain from the body level up. Each chapter presents a body-centered skill set that can be mastered through a broad menu of practice exercises. The resulting interlinked somatic building blocks help readers shift from physical pain to body awareness, and from unstoppable suffering to heartfelt connection and peace....

Fibromyalgia and Chronic Myofascial Pain: A Surviv...

The original edition of this classic survival manual offered the first comprehensive patient guide for managing these conditions. Its extensive set of healing tools included targeted bodywork for painful trigger points and strategies to helpccope with chronic pain and sleep problems and the numbing effects of fibrofog. More than 75 percent of the second edition is new or updated material, including coverage of promising new...

Understanding Chronic Pain: A Doctor Talks to His ...

“This is a personal narrative, a record of my passage among victims of chronic pain and the discoveries that have come from those encounters. I write for physicians, nurses, therapists, and caregivers, but mostly, I write for you who suffer the disease. I know you very well, perhaps as well as anybody in the world. I have listened to your stories with patience and attention, and I have been greatly rewarded. You have...

Peace in the Storm: Meditations on Chronic Pain an...

Millions of Americans experience pain every day of their lives, their conditions unalleviated by the myriad medications and treatments available today. Maureen Pratt, who has had lupus for more than a decade, is intimately aware of the toll chronic pain takes on patients and their families. In this practical and spiritual guide, she shares how she navigates through the frustrations, fears, and complexities of living with...