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Chronic Pain For Dummies

Chronic Pain For Dummies


By Stuart Kassan, MD, Charles J. Vierck, Jr., PhD, Elizabeth Vierck, MS

ISBN: 978-0-471-75140-3
Format: Paper
Pages: 384 Pages
Pub. Date: May 2008

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Price: $19.99
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Table of Contents
Introduction.

Part I: Getting the Lowdown on Chronic Pain.

Chapter 1: Hurting That Doesn’t Go Away.

Chapter 2: Discovering How Pain Works.

Chapter 3: When Pain Becomes Chronic.

Part II: Detailing Some Causes of Chronic Pain.

Chapter 4: Arthritis and Its Cohorts.

Chapter 5: My Aching Back.

Chapter 6: Head Cases: Migraines and Other Types of Craniofacial Pain.

Chapter 7: The Odd Couple: Injuries and Strokes.

Chapter 8: Burn Pain.

Chapter 9: Digestive and Urinary Conditions.

Chapter 10: Reproductive Conditions.

Chapter 11: Following the Nerve Pathways: Neuralgias and Neuropathies.

Chapter 12: Cancer Pain.

Part III: Managing Your Pain Medically.

Chapter 13: Putting Together an Anti-Pain Team.

Chapter 14: Prescribing Medicines for Chronic Pain.

Chapter 15: Taking an Alternative Approach to Pain Management.

Chapter 16: Considering Surgery: The Last Resort?

Part IV: Managing Your Pain with Lifestyle.

Chapter 17: Tracking and Avoiding Pain Triggers.

Chapter 18: Nutrition and Weight Control.

Chapter 19: Getting Physical: Flexibility, Strength, Endurance, and Balance.

Chapter 20: Tackling Fatigue.

Chapter 21: Treating Pain and Stress Using the Power of Thought.

Chapter 22: Relaxing, Praying, and Creating.

Part V: Understanding Pain Throughout the Life Cycle.

Chapter 23: Pain in Children.

Chapter 24: Pain and Aging.

Chapter 25: Pain at the End of Life.

Part VI: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 26: Ten Ways to Detect Bogus “Cures”.

Chapter 27: Ten Things to Remember about Pain and Sexuality.

Chapter 28: Ten or So Web Sources for People with Chronic Pain.

Chapter 29: Ten Things to Avoid When You Have Chronic Pain.

Index.

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