Navigating Life with Chronic Pain (Brain and Life Books)

Navigating Life with Chronic Pain provides accessible, comprehensive, and up-to-date information about the challenges patients, family members, and caregivers face when confronted by chronic pain, showing that no two pain experiences are the same. The authors expertly guide the reader through current approaches, to diagnoses including a review of diagnostic tests, and discuss a comprehensive, integrated approach to chronic pain treatment. Through the use of patient stories, you get real-world experiences and advice on navigating the day-to-day challenges, associated with chronic pain like exercising and nutrition, using non-opioid drugs, deciding when surgery is the best option, how to maintain intimacy with a partner, and how to manage caregiver burnout.

Robert A. Lavin, MD, MS is Assistant Professor in Department of Neurology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Director of Chronic Pain Management at VA Maryland Health Care Services in Baltimore, MD.

Sara Clayton, PhD is the Director of Pain Psychology at VA Maryland Health Care Services at a member of the Department of Neurology at the Baltimore VAMC in Baltimore, MD.

Lindsay Zilliox, MD is part of the Department of Neurology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD.