10 Simple Solutions to Chronic Pain: How to Stop Pain from Controlling Your Life - Softcover

Tearnan PhD, Blake

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1572244828 ISBN 13: 9781572244825

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications, 2007

Synopsis

Get Chronic Pain Under Control

Have you tried a number of approaches to manage chronic pain without much relief? The discouraging cycle of hope followed by frustration and continued pain can be as damaging to your quality of life as pain itself. To address this problem, the most current approaches to pain management advocate living well despite pain. They encourage pain sufferers to set aside their struggle with pain and learn the skills they need to stay engaged with life. Distilled from the very best of these techniques, 10 Simple Solutions to Chronic Pain offers you ten simple, effective solutions for thriving with chronic pain.

First, you'll get a quick introduction to the physiology of pain. Then it's down to the business of improving your quality of life: You'll learn tips for getting better sleep, ways to build a strong support system, and techniques for overcoming fear, anxiety, and depression. You'll discover better ways to communicate with doctors about your problems and find out which treatment options are likely to do you the most good. With the advice in this book, you can move from a debilitating cycle of pain to a full and rewarding life.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Research suggests that our attitudes about pain contribute as much to its life-disrupting power as actual painful sensations. This book offers you ten quick and simple tips aimed at changing your response to chronic pain and promoting improved activity, sleep, mood, and quality of life.

From the Back Cover:

10 Simple Solutions to Chronic Pain is a blueprint for having a fulfilling life while living with pain. Tearnan's ten steps help change pain sufferers into people able to cope with their pain. In easy to understand language, with clear explanations and vivid examples, this book provides readers tools to more effectively manage their pain. The suggestions and strategies in this book are well-reasoned, practical, and easily accomplished by those wanting mastery over pain. --B. Eliot Cole, MD, MPA, executive director of the American Society of Pain Educators

Victims of chronic pain will fins help in this research-based yet easily understood book. Tearnan engages the reader as an active member of the pain-treatment team. This proven program works to effectively reduce pain and suffering. --C. David Tollison, Ph.D., author and editor of eleven textbooks on the diagnosis and interdisciplinary treatment of pain and recipient of numerous national recognitions for the research and treatment of pain

About this edition

• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1572244828
• ISBN 13: 9781572244825
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192