Validate Your Pain!: Exposing the Chronic Pain Cover-Up - Softcover

Chino, Allan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1418452521 ISBN 13: 9781418452520

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2004

Synopsis

Individualswith chronic pain suffer not only from the torment of physical pain, but alsofrom a healthcare system that, through ignorance, arrogance, and greed, furtherabuses them. Written in plain English by pain specialists, Validate Your Pain! Exposing theChronic Pain Cover-Up (3rd Edition) tells the inside storyof a healthcare system gone awry and of how individuals with chronic pain paythe price in terms of physical, emotional, and financial suffering.Butit goes further. Validate Your Pain! helps the reader to transcend validation and move towardempowerment and recovery from the bonds of chronic pain by providing practical,step-by-step advice for successfully maneuvering through the healthcareminefield. No other book takes on these important and controversial issues. Validate Your Pain! does.¿"...I urge all pain patients and professionalsto hear the message of Validate YourPain! This courageous book is right on target and shows the way tocompassionate care of the future...NOW! There is nothing else even close to this book on the market."...Patti Wright, Leader andFounder,Fibromyalgia Friends Support GroupHenderson, Nevada¿ FMAngels3@aol.com

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About the Author

Allan F. Chino, Ph.D., ABPP is board certified inClinical Health Psychology and Past President of the American Academy of Clinical Health Psychology. He set up two anddirected three CARF-accredited painrehabilitation programs in northern California and Oregon. Currently in privatepractice near Portland, Oregon, Dr. Chino was elected to the Board of Directorsof the Oregon Psychological Association.He also serves on the Oregon PainManagement Commission which is charged with identifying and providing thelegislature with recommendations for removing barriers to the provision ofeffective pain management in the state.¿He has conducted biobehavioral research in the area of fibromyalgia. Inaddition to being a father (of two) and a husband (of one), Dr. Chino is amusician, a video producer, and former moderator of the board of deacons at hischurch.Corinne Dille Davis, M.D. isboard certified in Pain Medicine, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, andElectrodiagnostic Medicine. With Dr. Chino, she developed and directed aCARF-accredited hospital-based pain rehabilitation program in northernCalifornia. Having had her fill of practicing in a corporate hospital setting,she now provides medical pain management services in her private practice. Inaddition, she works for the federal government as a clinician, researcher, andeducator of doctors in training. Dr. Davis is a devoted wife, mother, andactive member of her church.

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If you suffer from chronic pain, then chances are you have read one or more of the "pain management" books on the market. Even so, you have never read a book like Validate Your Pain! Exposing the Chronic Pain Cover-Up. Drs. Chino and Davis have boldly departed from business as usual for pain books. ...Validate Your Pain! is like talking with an old friend who also happens to be an expert in the field of chronic pain. ...Validate Your Pain! dares to take the position of patient advocate. As stated in the introduction, the goal of Validate Your Pain! is to "arm you with 'insider' iformation that will help you to maneuver through the healthcare mine field so that you do not become yet another victim of the abuse that is going on" while helping you take control of your pain. Validate Your Pain! achieves this goal and more. William W. Deardorf, Ph.D., ABPP
Fellow, American Psychological Association
Past President, AMerican Academy of Health Psychology
Assistant Professor, UCLA School of Medicine
Co-Author: "Back Pain Remedies for Dummies"

"Win the Battle Against Back Pain"

Edition details

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1418452521
• ISBN 13: 9781418452520
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 356