Chronic Pain For Dummies

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John Wiley & Sons, May 4, 2011 - Health & Fitness - 384 pages
Proven exercises and techniques for dealing with pain

Your compassionate guide to conquering pain and living a full life

Do you suffer from chronic pain? This reassuring, practical guide helps you understand what causes pain and how to manage it with the newest pain-relieving techniques. You'll see how to track your pain triggers, weigh the benefits and risks of pain-reducing medications, improve your pain levels with diet and exercise, and determine whether surgery is right for you.

Discover how to:

  • Diagnose your pain
  • Build an anti-pain medical team
  • Prevent or minimize pain attacks
  • Explore alternative therapies
  • Make helpful lifestyle changes
 

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Contents

Title
Detailing Some Causes of Chronic Pain
Hurting That Doesnt Go Away
Discovering How Pain Works
When Pain Becomes Chronic
Arthritis and Its Cohorts
My Aching Back
Head Cases Migraines and Other Types of Craniofacial Pain
Considering Surgery The Last Resort?
Tracking and Avoiding Pain Triggers
Nutrition and Weight Control
Getting Physical Flexibility Strength Endurance and Balance
Tackling Fatigue
Treating Pain and Stress Using the Power of Thought
Relaxing Praying and Creating
Understanding Pain Throughout the Life Cycle

The Odd Couple Injuries and Strokes
Burn Pain
Digestive and Urinary Conditions
Reproductive Conditions
Following the Nerve Pathways Neuralgias and Neuropathies
Cancer Pain
Putting Together an AntiPain Team
Prescribing Medicines for Chronic Pain
Taking an Alternative Approach to Pain Management
Pain and Aging
Pain at the End of Life
The Part of Tens
Ten Ways to Detect Bogus Cures
Ten Things to Remember about Pain and Sexuality
Ten or So Web Sources for People with Chronic Pain
Ten Things to Avoid When You Have Chronic Pain
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Chronic Pain For Dummies
Stuart Kassan, MD,Charles J. Vierck, Jr., PhD,Elizabeth Vierck, MS
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Chronic Pain for Dummies
Stuart Kassan,Charles J. Vierck,Elizabeth Vierck
No preview available - 2008

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About the author (2011)

Stuart S. Kassan, MD, FACP: Dr. Kassan is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He is an internationally known expert in arthritis and painful conditions, such as lupus and Sjogren’s syndrome. Dr. Kassan is a registered acupuncturist. In his current Denverbased rheumatology practice, he is active in both research and treatment of patients with conditions that are associated with significant pain.
Dr. Kassan has received numerous awards and honors for his work, most recently from the Denver Business Journal for excellence in patient care. He is on the national board of the Arthritis Foundation and is president of the Rocky Mountain chapter of the Arthritis Foundation.

Charles J. Vierck, Jr., PhD: Dr. Vierck has spent 40-plus years conducting leading edge research to better understand how our bodies feel pain. He is currently working with colleagues to develop new tools for diagnosing and treating fibromyalgia, a painful and debilitating disease that affects primarily women.
Now Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida School of Medicine, Dr. Vierck is the former director of the Center for Neurobiological Sciences in the University of Florida’s McKnight Brain Institute. He has won numerous awards for his research and teaching, including the Javitz Neuroscience Investigator Award, a national prize for scientists. His articles appear regularly in Pain and The Journal of Pain. Dr. Vierck is coauthor of Medical Neuroscience (Saunders).

Elizabeth Vierck, MS: Dr. Vierck’s sister is a well-known information specialist and writer on health and aging. She writes extensively and frequently about arthritis (all forms), inflammation, aging, and other diseases that involve chronic pain.
Ms. Vierck is a Denver-based consultant and writes for many national aging and health organizations. Ms. Vierck is a widely published author with 17 books and numerous other publications to her credit, including the Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Anti-Inflammation Diet (with Dr. Christopher Cannon, Penguin), Health Smart (Simon & Schuster), Aging (two volumes, Greenwood), and Keys to Understanding Arthritis (Barrons). Ms. Vierck worked for the U.S. Senate for more than a decade, including the Special Committee on Aging and Labor and Human Resources Committee.

Bibliographic information

TitleChronic Pain For Dummies
AuthorsStuart Kassan, MD, Charles J. Vierck, Jr., PhD, Elizabeth Vierck, MS
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2011
ISBN1118068505, 9781118068502
Length384 pages
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Health & Fitness / General
Health & Fitness / Pain Management
  
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