The Everything Guide to Integrative Pain Management : Conventional and Alternative Therapies for Managing Pain - Discover New Treatments, Regulate Symptoms, Improve Your Mood, Decrease Chronic Stress, and Nurture Your Body and Mind

**A 2016 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Silver Award Winner (category: Health & Fitness), and a 2015 Nautilus Book Awards Silver Award Winner (Health & Healing, Wellness & Vitality).**

This multi-award-winning book can help you take the reins back from pain. 

Living with pain can be a daily struggle. If you are suffering from chronic pain, sometimes even small tasks can be difficult to accomplish. But there is hope. With The Everything Guide to Integrative Pain Management, you'll learn about the different options for managing pain with an integrative plan, that can include conventional therapies, such as medications, devices, or procedures, with natural and mind-body therapies, such as biofeedback, meditation, proper nutrition, exercise, and more.

Including information on:

• Talking to health care professionals and loved ones about pain
• Diet for reducing inflammation (and pain)
• Dietary supplements
• Why exercise is essential to good pain management
• Knowing when to find a different doctor
• Using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to reduce pain severity and improve coping
• Yoga, meditation, and hypnosis  
• Acupuncture and chiropractic
• Herbal remedies and supplements for pain relief
• The role of spirituality in coping with pain
• How to talk to loved ones about your pain
• Music therapy and binaural beat technology (BBT) to ease pain and stress
• Adding aromatherapy to pain management 
• The pros, cons, and politics of medical marijuana
• Apps to help you manage pain, improve your diet, and get exercise
• And much more

With advice on which treatments are best for specific types of pain, as well as guided breathing and relaxation exercises to ease body stress, this all-in-one guide gives you the tools you need to take the reins back from pain and get back to living.

To view a sample from chapter 1, visit: dropbox.com/s/hzie5q0jv68r3pd/Sample%20for%20Traci_Ch%201.pdf?dl=0

Traci Stein, PhD, MPH, is an adjunct professor and a Core Faculty Member at the Spirituality Mind Body Institute at Teachers College, Columbia University. Dr. Stein is fellowship trained in pain psychology, was the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Topic Expert at GoodTherapy.org, and is a PsychologyToday.com expert on Integrative Medicine. She is also the former Director of Integrative Medicine in the Department of Surgery at Columbia University Medical Center. 

Dr. Stein's work has been profiled in "O, the Oprah Magazine; in Womenshealth.com, and Health Magazine, and she has been extensively quoted on Bustle.com, its well as in Women's Day, Redbook, and elsewhere. She has been interviewed on dozens of radio shows and podcasts, is the creator of a series of affirming meditation, guided imagery and hypnosis audio programs for HealthJourneys.com, and is a featured teacher on the Insight Timer app - which has the largest collection of free meditation content anywhere. Dr. Stein maintains a private practice in New York, NY. For more information, visit her website at drtracistein.com.