Chronic Pain Management

It might feel impossible to live without the burden of constant stress or the pain of traumatic memories. For many the coping mechanisms they’ve managed to develop are all they have. The remarkable resilience of trauma survivors goes a long way, but the path to deeply healing is something we’re still discovering. The innovative approach of Polyvagal Theory marks a new milestone in our understanding. It’s not just about how to live with the burden of your past…

While the number of patients using medical marijuana increases every year, misconceptions about cannabis and whether it's harmful or dangerous still exist. In Cannabis for Chronic Pain, Dr. Rav explains the potential of marijuana's capacity for healing anyone afflicted with chronic pain. Medical marijuana is a safe, nonaddictive alternative to dangerous opiate pain pills. Cannabis for Chronic Pain is the new definitive guide for anyone who suffers from chronic pain.

Healing with DMSO will dispel the myths and falsehoods surrounding this substance while presenting the latest research-backed facts on how you can reap DMSO’s many benefits. From dosages to application methods, you’ll be presented with all the information needed to find the best and safest method for using DMSO at home.

Do you have arthritis, back pain, fibromyalgia, or another form of pain? This foundational book on chronic pain offers a holistic guide to living pain-free, which incorporates traditional medicine and natural solutions such as supplements, reflexology, meditation, cannabis, and more.

This book is for chronic pain sufferers and those who care for them: doctors, nurses, family members, and friends. It offers proven techniques to clear pain and live a life free from suffering, from a former chronic pain sufferer who searched the globe for answers—and found them. Elizabeth Kipp lived with chronic pain for over four decades until she learned nonpharmaceutical techniques to clear it and live a life free from suffering.

For four decades, Dr. Les Fehmi has been a leader in brainwave biofeedback (also called neurofeedback), training individuals how to balance and regulate their brainwave patterns to improve mental, emotional, and physical health. Dissolving Pain is based on the premise that although pain is perceived to exist in a particular part of the body, pain in fact resides in the brain. Dr. Fehmi shows us that it is possible to learn to resolve pain at the brain level, using simple attention exercises.

If you experience chronic pain (or you care for a loved one who suffers chronic pain), you know how challenging and frustrating it can be to cope with on a daily basis. In this book, Dr. George Beilin offers sound advice and a comprehensive strategy for handling the challenge of chronic pain and its many dimensions—physical, emotional, cognitive, life stressors, and fortitude. Dr. Beilin's pain management lifestyle model provides effective strategies for pain management, many of them drawn from his own experiences with chronic pain.

Written by members of the Chronic Pain Anonymous 12-step fellowship, Stories of Hope presents the tools and principles of the 12 steps as catalysts for emotional, mental, and spiritual transformation. Each of the courageous men and women who contributed to this collection shares their journey from despair to hope.

Vinh Pham is a world-class physical therapist who has worked with a broad range of clients. Early in his career, he discovered a disappointing truth: most of his patients came to him already in pain. They had lifestyle habits that misaligned their joints and tightened their muscles. And the recent epidemic of prolonged sitting—which represents an all-day assault on the body—has only made things worse. A precise and simple toolkit for tweaking the way we move (or refuse to move), Sit Up Straight outlines a process that starts with a daily posture regimen.

At a time when chronic pain and other conditions have reached epidemic proportions, and the medical model is coming up short for so many, Mind Your Body shares the evidence-based practices that can help deliver listeners from hopelessness to freedom. Psychotherapist and leading mind-body clinician Nicole Sachs teaches listeners about mind-body medicine—which helped her overcome her own debilitating pain and dark prognosis—and how to turn inward using her revolutionary JournalSpeak practice.

Approximately 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain, and many of them use prescribed painkillers to treat it. It's a dangerous course that may lead to dependency, addiction, and, paradoxically, increased pain. Opioid overdoses kill more people than car accidents and cocaine and heroin addictions combined.

Do you want to easily understand how generic traumas, anxiety, stress, and chronic diseases may influence your nervous system and consequently your mental and physical health? The polyvagal theory helps us understand how we can defend ourselves, and how we can face diseases better, especially mental disorders, such as anxiety, stress, depression, etc. The aim of this audiobook is helping people understand the polyvagal theory, its interconnection with the vagus nerve, and the extremely effective benefits that it could bring to our body and our health.

In this short, researched audiobook, Dr. Maloney explains how habitual pain responses can be caused by both physical and emotional triggers. These triggers form a map of your pain, and finding that map can lead to results when nothing else will work. Dr. Maloney gives an overview of his map of the back, along with patient examples that worked. Then he gives advice on how to map your own back. Ever a realist, Dr. Maloney ends his audiobook with 10 things patients should try before resorting to surgery.

You Are Not Your Pain reveals a simple set of mindfulness-based practices that you can incorporate into your daily life to relieve chronic pain and the suffering and stress of illness. Clinical trials show that mindfulness meditation can be as effective as prescription painkillers and can enhance the body's natural healing systems, while also significantly reducing anxiety, depression, irritability, exhaustion, and insomnia - all symptoms that can arise from chronic pain and illness.

Chronic pain sucks. It can hijack your life and leave you feeling scared, depressed, and lonely. Pain that rarely goes away impacts your relationships, your work, and your mental health. Yet doctors frequently neglect to mention these critical aspects of pain, leaving you to navigate them alone.

We give you what the other's don't: a game plan. As well as a step-by-step guide, we offer you many tips and options to customize your life to suit your needs while still getting rid of chronic pain. Get your life back from chronic pain. Don't let the burden on your small issue affect a much bigger part of your life. In this book you will find a step-by-step guide to getting your life back. Don't let the issue control you! Educate yourself and create a step-by-step plan to getting better.

According to Dr. Gary Kaplan, conventional thinking about the nature of chronic pain and depression is essentially flawed. Although physicians continue to diagnose conditions like migraines, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, chronic back pain, depression, anxiety, and PTSD, a growing body of research shows that these are in fact symptoms of something else – a deep-rooted inflammation in the brain. This inflammation can affect the nervous system for months—even years—to devastating effect.

DMSO is a miracle for the healing of virtually all health challenges from pain to bleeding stroke and many other ailments. It can be used in the medical field as a pharmaceutical and in the manufacturing field as industrial. RIMSO-50 has been approved for use for treating bladder disease, but the drug is very useful in other ailments. Though there are side effects on the use of DMSO just like any other pharmaceutical therapy but the advantages of using DMSO for the therapeutic purpose out ways its disadvantages.

Engaging and insightful, Pain Management and You: A Practical Approach to Living with Chronic Pain and Illness integrates new perspectives and ideas that will assist the listener's healing and recovery. People around the world struggle with chronic pain management, chronic pain syndrome, and live each day with pain and suffering. This audiobook seeks to help each and every chronic pain patient. If you suffer from chronic pain and want to live your dreams, look no further.

One in five people live with chronic pain and most feel misunderstood and unsupported. Dr Dawn Macintyre was one of those people. In "Living with Chronic Pain", she shares her journey from a full life to one characterised by pain and shame – and back again- as she reclaims her thriving self. Interwoven with insight into the emotions and challenges faced, as well as practical advice for changes and support to help sufferers, Dawn provides her perspective as both a sufferer of chronic pain, and a health practitioner.