Product Description: Consumer workbook features updated coverage of commonly used pain medications and specific pain disorders, current nutritional recommendations, and a new appendix on complementary alternative medicine. Includes new ideas on coping with pain flare-ups, staying active, accomplishing personal goals, and more.
Don't waste your money... This book (and another) were recommended to me by a doctor in a pain clinic. The only way that this book would ever be helpful is if someone is new to chronic pain. Being that I'd been dealing with my chronic, intractable pain for 6 years prior to reading the book, most of the information contained in the book were dealing with issues I've long come to terms with. It also very much implies that taking narcotics in any way for a long term is not the solution for chronic pain, when that couldn't be further from the truth for very many people. I was offended by the overall tone in the book that seemed to come off that all persons taking narcotics for pain were addicts, in many instances. This book was not helpful to me. It may be helpful to you if you don't yet know how to cope with life-long severe pain. However, if I were you, I'd first research intractable pain - there are much better resources out there than this book, and most of them are free on the web.
Here's to a managable day! Sincerely, Chandra Welter
Great book This book was reccomended by my Dr and it has been a great help in dealing with my pain..
I am living with chronic pain One review titled "I am recovering from chronic pain" may not have read the book or its' cover. You don't recover from "chronic" pain, you manage and learn to cope.
That is what this book is about, not the most current drugs or treatments. It is a collection of practical tools for understanding your chronic pain, coping with and managing chronic pain in your daily life so you can more enjoy life and living. This book was the most read and used by others in a chronic pain group I went to, where I first heard of it.
If one tool doesn't work, there are many other tools and approaches for managing and learning to live life more fully with chronic pain in this book.
Disappointed I wasn't nearly as thrilled with this book as some of the folks whose reviews influenced me to buy it. If you know anything about the functional anatomy of sensation/pain and/or psychology of pain, it's not for you; you won't get anything new. If you're newly diagnosed with a chronic pain syndrome, and don't have a background in any of the above, yes, it might be helpful.
Highly Recommended I have had chronic pain for years and I work with people who have chronic pain.
If you are looking for self-help with chronic pain, I do not think you will be disappointed with this book. It is one of two I provide to patients to help introduce basic chronic pain coping resources. The other is the "The Pain Survival Guide," by Dennis Turk, PhD. I suggest owning both. Both effectively cover a range of knowledge of what works in helping chronic pain patients help themselves.
In "Managing Your Pain . . ." Dr. Caudill describes up-to-date and proven means of controlling pain. The book is systematically structured as an effective self-help tool. Caudill explores how mind and body interact to manage pain. The book effectivly provides many well-formed exercises to effectively encourage adoption of pain management skills. I encourage patients to use it as part of their outpatient pain treatment process and routinely suggest it to patients who prefer to work on their own. In either case, many patients effectively apply it with little or no assistance. The book also offers suggestions of additional readings.
I also recommend this book to healthcare professionals who regularly, or occasionally, treat individuals with chronic pain, as an effective summary of current clinical wisdom on chronic pain.
It is important to add that, for many with chronic pain, gaining the motivation to help self is the biggest challenge. Often a first issue is determining if the cost of addressing, managing and taking responsibility to manage you pain appears worth the benefit. Caudill treats both issues with understanding and empathy.
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