Chronic Pain Management

This workbook offers listeners a 30 day structured journal to identify, express, and process psychological issues that may be causing back pain, neck pain, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, tension headaches, TMJ, and other disorders. This workbook also features sections on self-compassion, self-esteem, and gratitude that have proven utility in helping you feel better and heal.

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.

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.

In The Pain Cure Rx, Dr. Mitchell Yass presents the Yass Method, an alternative model of treatment that can resolve pain quickly and effectively without surgery or medication. While working with more than 14,000 patients, Dr. Yass realized that many cases of chronic pain are the result of misdiagnosis and thus improper treatment. In the medical community today, most chronic pain is attributed to a structural problem, such as a herniated disc, stenosis, a meniscal tear, or arthritis.

The United States is the most advanced society in the world, yet the majority of pain medications, procedures, and surgeries are not solving this paindemic. Paindemic will open your eyes to what you should know. Too many unnecessary and risky interventions are being done, with little benefit and at great expense. It's time to gain a better perspective to guide you down a more rational path to address and improve chronic pain, even low-back pain. Ignorance is not bliss. What you don't know about your pain could hurt you.

Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain disorder comprised of many symptoms and associated issues. The total complexity of this condition is such that it is often considered all-consuming. The day-to-day lives of people dealing with fibromyalgia are constantly affected on physical, mental, and emotional levels - often displacing all the dreams and aspirations once enjoyed before this unfortunate disorder took hold in the patient's life.

The Pain Companion is a practical guidebook for people living with chronic pain written by someone who has endured debilitating pain for many years and found ways to thrive and enjoy life despite the challenges. The book is intended to be, quite literally, a companion through pain, validating and acknowledging its myriad challenges and offering a pathway to greater well-being, ease, and comfort.

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.

For anyone who has lost a career because of chronic pain.... For anyone who has ever felt devastated, confused, or less-than because your health prevents you from working a formal job.... For anyone who have ever said to God, "This doesn't make sense. Wouldn't I be more useful to you if I were healthy?" This book is for you.

Chronic pain and sensitivity are disabling. You may wonder why you have chronic pain and sensitivity. This book will cover the causes that you may not be aware of. Chronic pain and sensitivity can impact areas of your life that you never thought about. It can drastically affect your financial security now and in the future.Chronic pain and sensitivity can negatively affect your decision-making, thought patterns and goal-setting. If you are constantly dealing with chronic pain, it is no doubt that you are stuck in survival mode.

“Drain ThatPain” is a holistic energy technique I created for chronic pain elimination. You read it correctly - pain elimination. This is my second book on this technique. The book and the documentary, called Drain ThatPain, educate and motivate you to let go of emotional and physical chronic pain while accepting that loving intention is the most powerful force in the world! Obviously, there are no guarantees, but thousands of people have let go of pain with DrainThatPain practitioners and other pain elimination methodologies all over the world!

Untreated or misdiagnosed pain is an epidemic among children. Nearly one out of every five children in the United States suffers chronic pain, while 30 to 40 percent of children over age twelve report feeling some form of pain in any given week. Yet only a small fraction of children receive appropriate treatment, increasing the risk that they will struggle with pain later in life. But, as Rachel Rabkin Peachman and Anna Wilson show, if we give pain the attention it deserves early in life, we can minimize short-term distress and halt the development of long-term chronic pain problems.

As a survivor of complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) caused by a drunk driver, Bonnie Lester intimately understands the challenge of living with persistent pain. From countless doctor’s visits to the missed moments with loved ones to shelling out thousands for expensive pain treatments, Bonnie lived the battle for decades. With a combination of neuroplasticity techniques, lifestyle medicine, and her innovative AIM (Affirmation, Image, Management) program, Bonnie astonished doctors by getting off the opioids, retrained her brain to significantly reduce pain, and reclaimed her life.

Navigating Life with Chronic Pain provides accessible, comprehensive, and up-to-date information about the challenges patients, family, and caregivers face when confronted by chronic pain.

Research over the last few decades shows that many of us – sufferers of chronic pain and health practitioners alike – are victims of a trick of the nervous system. Where we believe that pain has its root in a damaged body, it is the brain that prolongs the hurting after the body has healed. Paul Biegler, a science journalist and former doctor who has been on his own pain journey, investigates the true source of chronic pain – our brain’s so-called neuroplasticity – and emerging therapies that take advantage of that neuroplasticity to rewire the brain and end the suffering.

Allison Alexander, who has struggled with a chronic illness since she was a child, wants to see herself in her heroes and searches for examples of sick characters in pop culture. She weaves her own painful experiences with stories from other chronic sufferers, engaging with how society values healthiness, how doctors don’t always have answers, and how faith, friendship, and romance add pressure to already complicated situations.

Chronic inflammation can be a setback to our athletic goals, but more importantly it has a major impact on our overall health and longevity. According to WHO, chronic diseases is the number 1 threat to human health.

Pain is how the body communicates disorders to our mind/brain. This audiobook reverses that concept and explores simple concepts that can help you manage pain so that your suffering does not take over your life. This is the seventh audiobook in this series. The Innovations in Mind/Body Therapies series is a collection of ten short-listen audiobooks that review latest thinking and research findings in integrative medicine, which is contrary to the bottom-up dogma that has been part of main-stream medicine for over a century.

Living Better While Living with Pain offers practical advice from someone who has learned to live with pain without becoming captive to it. Beginning with a discussion of the ways in which chronic pain is experienced differently from short-term pain, the book offers useful suggestions for approaches to pain management and pain relief appropriate for anyone experiencing pain from surgery, fibromyalgia, thoracic outlet syndrome, arthritis, cancer, back pain, or other chronically painful conditions.

Finding Joy presents a comprehensive, practical guide for living your best life with chronic illness. This psychology self-help book integrates personal and professional insights to give you tools for handling various aspects of living with a chronic illness. There is also a chapter specifically for the loved ones and caregivers of the chronically ill. While this book is designed for anyone with a chronic illness, the spiritual content early in the book suggests the value of sticking to your faith and offers several Bible references.